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Lot Essay
According to our research, the present watch is one of only four examples of reference 636 known to the international auction market to date. It has furthermore never been offered in public before.
Few Patek Philippe dress watches have such a beautiful and unusual dial as the present watch. In two-tone gilt with a curved recess for each applied gold quarter-hour numeral at 3, 9 and 12 o’clock it immediately catches the eye. The style is echoed in the shape of the pendant bow and the feuille hands to stunning overall effect.
Furthermore the dial is extremely well preserved and free from any cosmetic intervention, the numerals and indexes have the blued patina of undisturbed gold, the hard enamel long signature, minute and seconds scales are prominently raised. It is interesting that the present watch would have been first sold in the UK as evidenced by the presence of Glasgow import marks for 1936 in the back of the case.
Few Patek Philippe dress watches have such a beautiful and unusual dial as the present watch. In two-tone gilt with a curved recess for each applied gold quarter-hour numeral at 3, 9 and 12 o’clock it immediately catches the eye. The style is echoed in the shape of the pendant bow and the feuille hands to stunning overall effect.
Furthermore the dial is extremely well preserved and free from any cosmetic intervention, the numerals and indexes have the blued patina of undisturbed gold, the hard enamel long signature, minute and seconds scales are prominently raised. It is interesting that the present watch would have been first sold in the UK as evidenced by the presence of Glasgow import marks for 1936 in the back of the case.