Patek Philippe. A fine and attractive 18K pink gold chronograph wristwatch with pulsation scale

With Patek Philippe Extract from the Archives confirming production of the present watch with silvered dial, raised hour markers in gold and pulsometre scale in 1943 and its subsequent sale on 19 February 1945.

The reference 130 offered here for sale is certainly one of the most unusual and visually appealing examples of the celebrated Patek Philippe chronograph family. It is one of the rare specimens fitted with a "medical" dial highlighted by a scale graduated for 30 pulsations. This dial version was popular amongst doctors and was often the subject of a special order upon the acquisition of the watch. Consequently, many Patek Philippe chronographs featuring this rather exotic scale are originally listed in Patek Philippe's archives with tachometre scale.

The watch here, offered for the first time ever at public auction, is however recorded in the firm's books as originally finished with a pulsation dial. The long signature (Patek, Philippe & Co.) matches with the year of manufacture and its condition is in complete harmony with the overall appearance of the watch.

With time, it has taken a charismatic patina displaying a melange of copper and rose, perfectly mirroring the charm a wristwatch made in the 1940s should radiate.

Its exclusivity is confirmed by the extremely small number of rose gold references 130 with pulsation scale to have appeared in thirty years of auction: previous to this chronograph, only three other examples, all however with different indexes, have been accounted for.