Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Jul 10, 2005

LOT 176

?Pink 1463? Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 867567, case No. 653492, Ref. 1463. Made in 1949, sold on September 9, 1949. Very fine and very rare, water-resistant, 18K pink gold gentleman?s wristwatch with round button chronograph, register and tachometer and a Patek Philippe 18K pink gold buckle. Accompanied by an Extract from the Archives.

HKD 800,000 - 1,000,000

EUR 80,000 - 100,000 / USD 100,000 - 130,000

Sold: HKD 1,250,000

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, concave lugs, screwed-down case back, inner anti-magnetic dust protectioncap. D. Brushed silvered, with applied pink gold indexes and Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outerminute track and concentric fifth of a second and tachometer graduation, Arabic five minute/second numerals. Pink gold "feuille"hands. M. Cal. 13''', rhodium plated, ?fausses côtes?, 23 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to eightpositions, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, ?swan-neck? micrometer regulator.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 35 mm. Thickness: 14 mm.

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Grading System
Grade:
Case: 3 - 14
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3 - 01

Notes

Ref. 1463 Production of this reference started in 1940. A similar watch is published in ?Patek Philippe Genève, Wristwatches?, by Martin Huber and Alan Banbery, 1998, p. 267. A similar watch is published in ?Collecting Patek Philippe Wristwatches? by Osvaldo Patrizzi, Guido Mondani Editore, 2004, vol. II, pp. 204 to 210.