Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 11, 2012

LOT 448

PATEK PHILIPPE, REF. 130 PINK GOLD Patek Philippe & Co., Genève, movement No. 863454, case No. 638769. Ref. 130. Made in 1944 and sold on October 30th, 1945. Very fine and rare, 18K pink gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, register, tachometer and an 18K pink gold Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by original box and Extract from the Archives.

CHF 55,000 - 85,000

USD 60,000 - 90,000 / EUR 45,000 - 70,000

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, inclined bezel, concave lugs, snap-on case back. D. Silver with applied pink gold Arabic numerals and dot indexes, outer minute and 1/5th second track, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minute register, outermost tachometer scale to 300 UPH. Pink gold baton hands. M. Cal. 13''', rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 23 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance with 8 adjustments, self-compensating steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 33 mm. Thickness 11 mm.


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Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

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

Good

HANDS Original

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Patek Philippe Ref. 130. Production of this reference started in 1934. It was made in stainless steel, yellow gold and pink gold; only three are known in white gold. It is one of the most desirable and sought-after sport watches ever created by the Patek Philippe fi rm. Sophisticated collectors appreciate this model?s perfect proportions, its large and clearly-read dial, encircled by a slender, concave bezel which gives the dial an even greater luminosity. It is very rare to fi nd a chronograph with a single button. Reference 130 usually has one button at 2 o'clock and another at 4 o'clock. Only a very few examples were made with a single button on the crown. This reference was fi rst used with Victorin Piguet ebauches, and later with Lemania ebauches. To date, one example is known of a single-button chronograph with Ref. 130, that features an experimental 12??? movement. Reference 130 was made with either Breguet numerals, Roman, Arabic, or mixed numerals.