475,000 HKD
PATEK PHILIPPE REF. 130 CHRONOGRAPH ROSE GOLD Patek Philippe, Geneve, No. 863450, case No. 638765, Ref 130. Made in 1944, sold on October 12th, 1945. Very fine and rare, 18K rose gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, register, tachometer. Accompanied by a fitted Patek Philippe box, certificate of origin and the Extract of the Archives. Three body, polished and brushed, curved lugs, concave bezel, snap on case back. Salmon with applied pink gold baton indexes and Roman 12 and 6, outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-second Arabic markers, outermost tachometer scale, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 30-minute register. Pink gold baton hands. Cal 13’’’, rhodium plated, 23 jewels, fausses cotes decoration, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 8 positions, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, swan neck micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 33 mm. Thickness 12 mm. Notes Patek Philippe Ref. 130. Production of this reference started in 1934. It was made in stainless steel, yellow gold and pink gold; only three examples are known in white gold. It is one of the most desirable and sought-after sport watches ever created by the Patek Philippe fi rm. Sophisticated collectors appreciate this model's perfect proportions, its large and clearly-readable dial, encircled by a slender, concave bezel which lends an even greater luminosity to the dial. Reference 130 usually has one button at 2 o'clock and another at 4 o'
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2012-08-25
