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PATEK PHILIPPE & CO. GENEVE NO. 868338, REF. 2499 MANUFACTURED IN 1952 A SPECTACULAR AND PROBABLY...

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PATEK PHILIPPE & CO. GENEVE NO. 868338, REF. 2499 MANUFACTURED IN 1952 A SPECTACULAR AND PROBABLY...
PATEK PHILIPPE & CO.
GENEVE
NO. 868338, REF. 2499 MANUFACTURED IN 1952
A SPECTACULAR AND PROBABLY UNIQUE PINK GOLD PERPETUAL CALENDAR CHRONOGRAPH WRISTWATCH WITH COUNTERS, TACHOMETER, MOON PHASES AND LARGE LUGS
18K, NICKEL LEVER MOVEMENT, BIMETALLIC COMPENSATION BALANCE, 23 JEWELS, EIGHT ADJUSTMENTS, MOVEMENT STAMPED TWICE WITH SEAL OF GENEVA, SILVERED DIAL, APPLIED ARABIC NUMERALS, THREE SUBSIDIARY DIALS FOR CONSTANT SECONDS, 30-MINUTES COUNTER AND DATE COMBINED WITH MOON PHASES, APERTURES FOR DATE AND MONTH, OUTER SCALE CALIBRATED FOR TACHOMETER, CIRCULAR CASE WITH LARGE STEPPED LUGS, WITH PATEK PHILIPPE PINK GOLD BUCKLE SIGNED ON MOVEMENT,
CASE AND DIAL, NUMBERED
ON MOVEMENT AND CASE DIAMETER 38 MM
CHF 1,500,000-2,000,000
$ 1,000,000-1,300,000
THIS WATCH
IS ACCOMPANIED
BY AN EXTRACT
FROM THE ARCHIVES CONFIRMING
ITS MANUFACTURE
AND SUBSEQUENT
SALE IN 1956.
OVER A SPAN of more than THREE DECADES, PATEK PHILIPPE PRODUCED THE CELEBRATED REFERENCE 2499 IN FOUR SERIES. ACCORDING TO LITERATURE, THE TOTAL PRODUCTION FOR ALL SERIES TOTALLED 349 PIECES. RESEARCH SHOWS THAT ONLY A TENTH OF THE TOTAL PRODUCTION, APPROXIMATELY 35 PIECES, WAS DEDICATED TO THE FIRST SERIES. WHEREAS THE MAJORITY OF THIS SERIES, RECOGNIZABLE BY THE FLAT RECTANGULAR CHRONOGRAPH PUSHERS, were FINISHED IN YELLOW GOLD, NO MORE THAN THREE EXAMPLES ARE KNOWN TODAY IN PINK GOLD.
TWO DIFFERENT CASE STYLES OF THE FIRST SERIES OF REFERENCE 2499 WERE MADE, SIMILAR TO ITS SISTER MODEL REFERENCE 2497, THE SIMULTANEOUSLY PRODUCED PERPETUAL CALENDAR WRISTWATCH WITH CENTER-SECONDS. SOME EXAMPLES HAVE MORE PROMINENTLY SHAPED AND DOWN-TURNED LUGS, SUCH AS THE PRESENT WATCH, COMBINED WITH A FLAT BACK. THE OTHER VERSION CAME WITH SLIGHTLY SMALLER LUGS.
watches &
wristwatches part II
november 18 2002
hotel des bergues
at 6pm lots 153-298
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