Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jul 09, 2016

LOT 172

PATEK PHILIPPE REF. 5000 WHITE GOLD Patek Philippe, Genève, movement No. 800365, Ref. 5000. Made in 1992. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold wristwatch with eccentric seconds and an 18K white gold Patek Philippe deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box, certificate of origin and booklets.

Three-body, solid, polished, screw-down transparent case back, concave lugs, sapphire crystals. Black with painted white radial Arabic numerals, concentric minute track, subsidiary seconds dial at 4. White baton hands. Cal. 240 PS, stamped with the Seal of Geneva quality mark, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 27 jewels, straight- line lever escapement, Gyromax balance adjusted for heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat free- sprung balance spring, mobile stud bearer, 22K gold micro-rotor mounted on ball bearings.