221,500 CHF
Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, "World Time" , No. 921709, case No. 632 663, Ref. 1415 HU. Made in 1942, sold on September 1945. Production of this reference started in 1939. Exceptionally fine and very rare, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with an 18K pink gold Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and the "Extrait des Registres". Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, hand engraved, revolving reeded bezel bearing the names of 32 places in the world, teardrop lugs. Pink silver, with applied pink gold Roman numerals and painted indexes, surrounded by a revolving dial in 24 hours for the nocturnal and diurnal hours. Pink gold fancy hands. Notes Most of the models of reference 1415 HU bear a central dial in matte silver or cloisonné enamel. This example has a pink dial, which is rarer. A similar watch is published in "Patek Philippe Wristwatches", by Martin Huber and Alan Banbery, 1998 , pp. 243 and 245. "World Time System" . This system was invented around 1935 by Louis Cottier (1894 - 1966), a famous independent watchmaker in Geneva. This World Time system was used by Patek Philippe and also by other major names in the Swiss watch industry, such as Agassiz, Rolex and Vacheron Constantin. Patek Philippe created various series of “World Timers” from 1937 to the mid-1960s: "Ref. 515 , a rectangular “galbé” pink gold model made in 1937, with the names of 28 cities in the world on the dial, the time differences between them based on Greenwich Me
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-10-15
