Lot Essay
This very rare representative of the celebrated 'Calatrava' series impresses with the highly elegant combination of a 37 mm. platinum case, bezel embellished with baguette-cut diamonds, and the white lacquer dial set with baguette and square-cut diamond indexes. Like all platinum Patek Philippe watches, it is set with a small flawless diamond between the lugs at 6 o’clock. According to the Certificate of Origin, the timepiece is set with a total of 68 baguette-cut diamonds weighing a combined 2.71 carats, along with a single diamond of 0.02 carats. Reference 5118 was launched in 2005 and remained in Patek Philippe’s catalogues until 2011. It was made in an exceedingly small series only.