Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 10, 2013

LOT 296

PATEK PHILIPPE DRIVER?S WATCH PINK GOLD Patek Philippe & Cie, Geneve, No. 825513, case No. 618584. Made circa 1938. Extremely fine and rare, asymmetric, horizontal rectangular curved, 18K pink gold driver?s wristwatch with an 18K pink gold Vacheron & Constantin custom buckle. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives.

USD 10,000 - 15,000

HKD 77,000 - 115,000 / CHF 9,500 - 14,000

Sold: USD 18,750

C. Two-body, solid, polished, one attachment link at 6, top winder, flat top crystal. D. Pink gold with applied pink gold pyramid indexes, Arabic numerals and painted indexes. Pink gold baton hands. M. 8???, rectangular, rhodium-plated, fausses-cotes decoration, 18 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. DIM. 25 x 26 mm. THICKNESS 8 mm.


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Grade:
Case: 2-9

Very good

Scratched
Movement: 3-6*

Good

Slightly oxidized

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

Good

HANDS Original

Notes

Driver?s watches by Patek Philippe are extremely rare, especially those cased in pink gold with pink dials. A similar example to the present lot is featured in ?Patek Philippe Wristwatches?, by Martin Huber and Alan Banbery, 1998, page 167.