Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Sep 30, 2014

LOT 228

PATEK PHILIPPE REF 5204 PLATINUM Patek Philippe, Genève, movement No. 5251XXX, case No. 4681XXX, Ref. 5204P. Sold on May 8, 2014. Very fine and rare, platinum wristwatch with split-seconds chronograph, registers, perpetual calendar, moon phases, leap year, 24 hour indication and a platinum Patek Philippe deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted wooden box, Certificate of Origin, additional solid platinum case back, setting pin, and a leather folder with instructions.

Three-body, solid, polished, transparent screw-down case back, case band with 4 correctors, co-axial pushbutton in the crown for the split-seconds function, concave bezel, fluted stepped lugs, sapphire crystals. Silver with applied white gold baton indexes, outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-second Arabic markers, subsidiary dials for the 30-minute register and leap year between 4 and 5 o'clock, day/night indicator between 7 and 8 o'clock, the days of the month around subsidiary dial at 6 o'clock, apertures for the days of the week, the months and the moon phases. White gold luminous baton hands. Cal. CHR 29-535 PS Q, stamped with the Seal of Geneva quality mark, rhodium- plated, fausses cotes decoration, 34 jewels, straight- line lever escapement, Gyromax balance, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring.