$217,000
Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 868983, case No. 2616351, Ref. 1436. Production of this reference started in 1938 to 1971.Extremely fine and important, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with square button split-seconds chronograph, register and tachometer. Accompanied by an 18K yellow gold Patek Philippe buckle and an Extract from the Archives. three-body, solid, polished and brushed, concave lugs. matte silver with applied yellow gold Breguet numerals, auxiliary seconds and 30 minute register dials, outer tachometer graduation. "Feuille" yellow gold hands. Cal. 13-130, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 25 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 8 positions, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, micrometer regulator. Function of the split-seconds hand is activated by pushing the wnding-crown.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 33 mm. Notes Similar watches are published in "Patek Philippe Wristwatches", by Martin Huber and Alan Banbery, 1998 Edition, p. 273-274.Ref. 1436 Split-seconds chronograph wristwatches were "the must" of Patek Philippe technology and after 1938 were generally cased with this Reference. The majority are in yellow gold. Rarely, are they in pink gold, and only three stainless steel examples are known, two of which were sold by Antiquorum:- Geneva, April 10, 1994, lot 431.- Geneva, April 23 1995, lot 457. In themid-1950's some were produced with a coaxial button on the winding-crown for
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2002-05-08
