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PATEK PHILIPPE & CO. GENEVE NO. 198334, REF. 130 MANUFACTURED IN 1929 A SUPERB AND PROBABLY UNIQU...

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PATEK PHILIPPE & CO. GENEVE NO. 198334, REF. 130 MANUFACTURED IN 1929 A SUPERB AND PROBABLY UNIQU...
PATEK PHILIPPE & CO.
GENEVE
NO. 198334, REF. 130 MANUFACTURED IN 1929
A SUPERB AND PROBABLY UNIQUE GOLD SINGLE-BUTTON CHRONOGRAPH WRISTWATCH WITH COUNTER, TACHOMETER AND BLACK DIAL
18K, NICKEL LEVER MOVEMENT, BIMETALLIC COMPENSATION BALANCE, BLACK DIAL, APPLIED ARABIC AND BATON NUMERALS, TWO SUBSIDIARY DIALS FOR 30-MINUTES COUNTER AND CONSTANT SECONDS, OUTER SCALE CALIBRATED FOR TACHOMETER, WITH PATEK PHILIPPE GOLD BUCKLE SIGNED ON MOVEMENT,
CASE AND DIAL, NUMBERED
ON MOVEMENT AND CASE DIAMETER 33 MM
CHF 350,000-450,000
$ 240,000-300,000
THIS WATCH IS ACCOMPANIED
BY AN EXTRACT FROM THE ARCHIVES CONFIRMING ITS MANUFACTURE AND SUBSEQUENT SALE IN 1935.
THE RARITY OF THIS PIECE IS UNDERLINED BY THE FACT THAT IT IS THE ONLY KNOWN EXAMPLE OF A PATEK PHILIPPE SINGLE-BUTTON CHRONOGRAPH TO HAVE BEEN ORIGINALLY FITTED WITH A BLACK DIAL, AS STATED ON THE ACCOMPANYING EXTRACT FROM THE ARCHIVES.
THE WATCH IS PROMINENTLY ILLUSTRATED AND DESCRIBED ON PAGES 52 and 53 OF IL CHRONOGRAFO INTERPRETATO BY C.GHIDONI & G.RIBOLINI, EDIZIONI GOLD - MILANO, 1991.
TIME & THE TIMEPIECE
Around the time when wristwatches were becoming an increasingly indispensable item, watch manufacturers started using their imaginations to develop timepieces that could be displayed elsewhere. On DESKS, on walls, or on bedside tables; in plexiglass, chromed, plastic or leather, their imagination had no limit. Their shapes and materials were often reflective of a different time when winding an eight-days timepiece was still a pleasure. These timepieces have traveled
through time, and they
represent a wide selection
by manufacturers such as
Jaeger, Mido, Imhof, Angelus, vacheron & constantin
and cartier. Each timepiece
is reminiscent of a
different ERA, and one
can still imagine these
great pieces standing
on a director's desk or
on the mantelpiece
above the fireplace.
literature
Pendolette Fantasia by C. Ghidoni
& G. Ribolini, Rizzo Editore
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