215,250 CHF
“Two-tone Dial” Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 862711, case No. 620832, Ref. 1463, retailed by Astura Torino. Produced circa 1942. Very fine and very rare, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman,s wristwatch with round button chronograph, register and tachometer. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives. Two-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back, stepped bezel, concave lugs, dust-protecting cap. Two-tone silver with applied white gold Roman numerals and baton indexes, subsidiary seconds and30-minute register dials, outer tachometer graduation, concentric, 1/5th seconds scale. White gold "bâton" hands. Notes Ref. 1463 Production of this reference started in 1940, only a very few examples were made in stainless-steel, watches with two-tone dial are rare. A similar watch is published in "Patek Philippe Wristwatches", by Martin Huber and Alan Banbery, 1998, page 267. Poinçons de Genève The voluntary quality control of watches at the Geneva Observatory, was established by a law dated ovember 6, 1886. Conditions were laid down for the attribution and stamping of the Poinçons de Genève, punch-marks designed as the coat-of-arms of Geneva. Pocket watches or wristwatches which carry the Poinçons de Genève, considered an equivalent to a “Bulletin Officiel de Marche”, punched on a bridge and on the main plate of the movement, were qualified to be officially termed "chronometers".
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-10-24
