PATEK PHILIPPE. A FINE AND RARE 18K GOLD AUTOMATIC WRISTWATCH WITH FREEMASONRY MOTTO ON THE DIAL AND BRACELET
PATEK PHILIPPE. A FINE AND RARE 18K GOLD AUTOMATIC WRISTWATCH WITH FREEMASONRY MOTTO ON THE DIAL AND BRACELET

SIGNED PATEK PHILIPPE, RETAILED BY TIFFANY & CO., REF. 2526, MOVEMENT NO. 760'490, CASE NO. 682'029, MANUFACTURED IN 1954

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PATEK PHILIPPE. A FINE AND RARE 18K GOLD AUTOMATIC WRISTWATCH WITH FREEMASONRY MOTTO ON THE DIAL AND BRACELET
SIGNED PATEK PHILIPPE, RETAILED BY TIFFANY & CO., REF. 2526, MOVEMENT NO. 760'490, CASE NO. 682'029, MANUFACTURED IN 1954
Cal. 12-600 AT automatic lever movement stamped twice with the Geneva seal, 30 jewels, 18k gold engine-turned rotor, matte silvered dial with applied gold baton numerals and raised motto Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, subsidiary seconds, circular water-resistant-type case, PP crown, screw back, 18k gold Patek Philippe bracelet, additional Patek Philippe buckle, case and movement signed by the maker, dial signed by the retailer
35 mm. diam.

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US$20,000-30,000

With Patek Philippe Extract from the Archives confirming production of the present watch with raised hour markers in gold in 1954 and its subsequent sale on 8 July 1954 and an additional buckle.

Fresh to the market and according to our research, it would appear that in the mid-1950s, a small series of these dials were made by Patek Philippe's supplier Stern Freres upon special request by Tiffany & Co.

Behave toward others as you would like to have them behave toward you, as in "Of course I'll help him out; it's a case of do unto others, and I may be in the same boat one day". This so-called golden rule is stated in just about every ancient writing about behavioural precepts, including the New Testament, Talmud, Koran and the Analects of Confucius. Among the earliest appearances in English is Earl Rivers' translation of a saying of Socrates (Dictes and Sayenges of the Philosophirs, 1477): "Do to other as thou wouldst they should do to thee, and do to none other but as thou wouldst be done to."

It appears that this rule would also be one of the freemason's principles.
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