$236,000
"Fourth Series" Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 863792, case No. 2632526, Ref. 2499. Made in the 1960s. Very fine and rare, astronomic, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, 30- minute register, perpetual calendar, moon phases and an 18K gold Patek Philippe buckle. Three-body, solid, polished, concave bezel, fluted lugs, domed crystal. Matte silver with applied yellow gold bâton indexes, auxil-iarydials for the seconds and the 30-minute register, graduation for the days of the month, apertures for the days of the week, themonths and the moon phases. "Feuille" yellow gold hands. Notes Ref. 2499 Produced in 349 examples from 1951 to 1985, very few with tachometer, the majority in yellow gold, and a very few examples in pink gold. - First series: from 1951 to circa 1960, square buttons, "Feuille" hands, applied Arabic numerals, fluted lugs. It is extremely rare to find models in this series with dials with painted bâton indexes; no watches with black dials are known. - Second series: round buttons, "Feuille" hands, applied Arabic numerals. No watches with black dials are known in this series. - Third series: round buttons, "Dauphine" hands, applied indexes, Arabic numeral 12. No watches with black dials are known in this series. - Fourth series: from 1960 to 1978, round buttons, "Dauphine" or "Feuille" hands, applied "bâton" indexes. In this series, only four watches with black dials are known. Only one split-seconds chron
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-06-15
