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Geneva, Oct 14, 2007

LOT 524

"Digital Perpetual Calendar" Patek, Philippe & Cie., Genève, No. 198281, case No. 418009. Made in 1937, sold on December 27, 1944. Very fine and extremely rare, thin, 18K yellow gold, keyless, digital perpetual calendar dress watch with phases of the moon and eccentric two-tone dial. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives.

CHF 100,000 - 150,000

EUR 60,000 - 90,000 / USD 85,000 - 125,000

C. Three-body, "bassine", polished. D. Two-tone gold, eccentric, applied yellow gold Roman quarter-hour numerals and gold baton indexes on a polished chapter ring, outer minute divisions, four apertures for days of the week, date, months and phases of the moon, subsidiary seconds. Gold "feuille? hands. M. 37.5 mm., 17''?, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 18 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial and movement signed, case numbered. Diam. 45 mm. From ?The Collection?


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Grade:
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-6-01

Good

Slightly oxidized

HANDS Original

Notes

Two very similar watches, Nos. 198281 and 198278, were sold by Antiquorum: lot 275, April 1989, and lot 128, April 12, 2003. These watches are the much rarer precursor of the so-called ?American? digital perpetual calendar that was adopted by Patek Philippe in the late 1940s. The ?American? calendar shows the calendar in a single linear aperture