Lot Description

PATEK PHILIPPE. A VERY FINE AND RARE 18K PINK GOLD PERPETUAL CALENDAR WRISTWATCH WITH MOON PHASES
SIGNED PATEK PHILIPPE, GENEVE, REF. 1526, MOVEMENT NO. 964'555, CASE NO. 657'235, MANUFACTURED IN 1949
Cal. 12'''120 mechanical lever movement, 18 jewels, bimetallic compensation balance, micrometer regulator, silvered dial, applied pink gold Arabic and dot numerals, windows for day and month, subsidiary dial for date, constant seconds combined with moon phases, circular case, snap back, 18k pink gold Patek Philippe buckle, case, dial and movement signed
33.5 mm. diam.

百達翡麗，非常精細及罕有，18K紅金腕錶，配萬年曆及月相顯示，型號1526，1949 年製

Special Notice

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Lot Notes

US$150,000-250,000

With Patek Philippe Extract from the Archives confirming production of the present watch with applied gold hour markers in 1949 and its subsequent sale on 7 December 1950

Reference 1526 is often not credited for its historical importance, being the world's first perpetual calendar wristwatch made in series, and its beautiful design, a masterpiece of purism and elegance.
Consigned by an important private collector, this watch offered here for sale must be counted as a very attractive examples of a reference 1526. Examples in pink gold are exceedingly rare and in fact, according to our research, the present watch is one of only 33 examples in pink gold to have come up for auction to date. The present watch in pink gold is the perfect proof of how strong and masculine reference 1526 can be if well preserved over the years.

Manufacture of reference 1526, highly appreciated by collectors and immediately recognisable by its Calatrava-style case, was launched in 1941. According to literature, only 210 examples were made, the majority cased in yellow gold, few examples were made in pink gold, such as the present lot. Only one example in steel, now at Patek Philippe's prestigious watch museum in Geneva, is known to have been made.

Reference 1526 is illustrated in Patek Philippe Wristwatches by Martin Huber & Alan Banbery, second edition, pp. 282 & 283.