800,000 HKD
PATEK PHILIPPE REF. 3970 PINK GOLD Patek Philippe, Genève, No. 3046850, Ref. 3970ER. Made in 2003. Very fine and important, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, register, perpetual calendar, moon phases, leap year, 24-hour indication and an 18K pink gold Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by the original fitted box. Three-body, solid, polished, concave bezel, fl uted lugs, transparent screwed-down case back, sapphire crystals. Silvered with applied pink gold faceted baton and pyramidal indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 30-minute register, the days of the month, the 24 hours and the leap year, aperture for the days of the week, the months and the moon phases, outer 1/5 seconds/minute divisions. White gold baton hands. Cal. CH 27-70/155 Q, stamped with the Seal of Geneva quality mark, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 24 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, Gyromax balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 8 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 13 mm. Notes Available from 1986 until 2005 the Patek Philippe Ref.3970 was made in approximately 4000 units, predominately in yellow gold. The reference shared the movement Calibre 27-70 with the 3971 using numbers 875,000 until approximately 877,000. With the introduction of the ref.5020 in 1994 a new movement sequence was started at 304,5000 and used in the 5020,
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2012-02-26
