Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 27, 2015

LOT 723

PATEK PHILIPPE REF 3970 R PINK GOLD Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 3045627, Ref. 3970 R. Production of this reference started in 1986. Very fine and rare, water-resistant, astronomic, 18K pink gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, register, perpetual calendar and moon phases and an 18K pink gold Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by an Extract from the Archives.

Three-body, solid, polished, screwed-down transparent case back, concave bezel, fluted lugs, sapphire crystals. Matte silver with applied faceted pink gold indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute register, the days of the month, the 24 hours and the leap year, aperture for the days of the week, the months and the moon phases. Pink gold bâton hands. Cal. 27-70/155, stamped with the Seal of Geneva quality mark, rhodium plated, fausses côtes decoration, 24 jewels, straight- line lever escapement, Gyromax balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 8 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring.