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Patek Philippe. A fine and rare 18K gold openface keyless lever perpetual calendar watch with moon phases
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Patek Philippe. A fine and rare 18K gold openface keyless lever perpetual calendar watch with moon phases

SIGNED PATEK PHILIPPE, GENEVE, REF. 725, MOVEMENT NO. 930'966, CASE NO. 657'903, MANUFACTURED IN 1949

Closed16 May 2011

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Patek Philippe. A fine and rare 18K gold openface keyless lever perpetual calendar watch with moon phases
Signed Patek Philippe, Geneve, ref. 725, movement no. 930'966, case no. 657'903, manufactured in 1949
Cal. 17'''170 nickel-finished lever movement, 18 jewels, bimetallic compensation balance, silvered matte dial, applied gold Arabic numerals, four subsidiary dials for month and leap year indicator, day, date and moon phases and constant seconds, plain circular case, snap on back, case, dial and movement signed
46 mm. diam.

Specialist note

With Patek Philippe Extract from the Archives confirming production of the present watch with raised gold hour markers in 1949 and its subsequent sale on 5 October 1950.

Reference 725 and the nearly identical reference 725/2 were in production from 1940 until around 1964. Until to date, less than 10 examples of reference 725 in yellow gold are known to have survived.