366,500 CHF
Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 869154, case No. 2642006, Ref. 1436. This reference was produced from 1938 to 1971. Exceptional and extremely rare, 18K yellow gold gentleman’s wristwatch with square button, coaxial, split-seconds chronograph, register, tachometer, and an 18K yellow gold Patek Philippe deployant buckle. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives. three-body, solid, polished, concave bezel and lugs. off-white with applied yellow gold Bâton indexes, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer tachometer graduation. Yellow gold "Feuille" hands. 13’’’ CCR, rhodium-plated, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 25 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, 8 adjustments, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, micrometer regulator, coaxial button on the winding-crown for the stop and rejoin functions of the split-seconds hands.Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 33 mm. Notes What is a split-seconds chronograph? The split-seconds chronograph, in its present form, was first introduced in 1880. A split-seconds chronograph, or rattrapante, is a type of chronograph watch with two coaxial superimposed center-seconds hands that are controlled by two push-buttons. One push-button controls the split-seconds hand to stop or join the chronograph hand. The other pushbutton controls both the hands and all the chronograph functions. The two hands, the chronograph hand and the split-seconds hand, are used for timing several events that start s
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-04-24
