$794,500
PATEK PHILIPPE REF. 1518 PERPETUAL CALENDAR CHRONOGRAPH PINK GOLD Patek Philippe, Genève, No. 868088, case No. 668397, Ref. 1518. Made in 1951, sold November 3rd, 1953. Very fine and very rare, 18K pink gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases, square button chronograph, register, tachometer and an 18K pink gold Patek Philippe link bracelet. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, concave bezel and lugs, snap-on case back, 8 mm winding crown. Satine silver with applied pink gold Arabic numerals and round indexes, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, graduation for the days of the month at 6, outer 1/5th seconds track and tachometer graduation, apertures for the days of the week, the months and the moon phases. Pink gold feuille hands. 13’’’, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 23 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with 8 adjustments, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 35 mm. THICKNESS 14 mm. Approx. overall length 180 mm. Property from an American Collection Notes Patek Philippe reference 1518 was the world’s first perpetual calendar chronograph wristwatch produced in a series by any manufacturer. Of the 281 examples of reference 1518 crafted during production of the model from 1941 through 1952, only a handful of examples were produced in pink/rose gold and sold with a detachable Pat
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2013-04-10
