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Accompanied by Patek Philippe Certificat d'Origine et de Garantie and Extract from the Archives confirming production of the present watch with calibre 27 AM 400 amagnetic movement in 1965 and its subsequent sale on 26 January 1966.
To the best of our knowledge, this watch has never been offered at auction before and is one of only two examples of reference 1491 in gold with calibre 27-AM 400 known to date.
Reference 1491 was launched in 1940 and made in two versions, the first series with calibre 12'''120 and subsidiary seconds, the second as of 1943 with calibre 12 SC movement and sweep centre seconds. The model is distinguished by its highly decorated scroll lugs, demonstrating Patek Philippe avant-garde spirit by using varying shapes and forms, breaking away from the straight-forward circular shape with plain lugs. Inspiration from architecture, geometry and history created a new graciousness of form with rounded corners, stepped and triple-stepped forms and other elements, like scrolls.
The particularity of the present watch however is the highly unusual use of a 27-AM 400 antimagnetic movement, normally reserved for Patek Philippe's "Amagnetic" watches such as references 2570/1 and 3460. The amagnetic calibre 27-AM 400 was launched in 1960 and is an improved version of the 1958 calibre 12'''400, fitted now with a Gyromax balance and free sprung self-compensation Breguet overcoil hairspring.
"Amagnetic" watches were designed for use in areas of high electro-magnetic fields such as in laboratories or electro-engineering. It can therefore be assumed that the original owner of this watch ordered it purposely with an amagnetic movement, as confirmed by both the Certificate of Origin and the Extract from the Archives.
To the best of our knowledge, this watch has never been offered at auction before and is one of only two examples of reference 1491 in gold with calibre 27-AM 400 known to date.
Reference 1491 was launched in 1940 and made in two versions, the first series with calibre 12'''120 and subsidiary seconds, the second as of 1943 with calibre 12 SC movement and sweep centre seconds. The model is distinguished by its highly decorated scroll lugs, demonstrating Patek Philippe avant-garde spirit by using varying shapes and forms, breaking away from the straight-forward circular shape with plain lugs. Inspiration from architecture, geometry and history created a new graciousness of form with rounded corners, stepped and triple-stepped forms and other elements, like scrolls.
The particularity of the present watch however is the highly unusual use of a 27-AM 400 antimagnetic movement, normally reserved for Patek Philippe's "Amagnetic" watches such as references 2570/1 and 3460. The amagnetic calibre 27-AM 400 was launched in 1960 and is an improved version of the 1958 calibre 12'''400, fitted now with a Gyromax balance and free sprung self-compensation Breguet overcoil hairspring.
"Amagnetic" watches were designed for use in areas of high electro-magnetic fields such as in laboratories or electro-engineering. It can therefore be assumed that the original owner of this watch ordered it purposely with an amagnetic movement, as confirmed by both the Certificate of Origin and the Extract from the Archives.