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Lot 3141
PATEK PHILIPPE. AN EXTREMELY FINE AND RARE 18K PINK GOLD RECTANGULAR TOURBILLON CHRONOMETER WRISTWATCH WITH 10-DAY POWER RESERVE, ORIGINAL CERTIFICATE AND BOX
SIGNED PATEK PHILIPPE, GENEVE, 10 DAYS, TOURBILLON, REF. 5101, MOVEMENT NO. 5'250'009, CASE NO. 4'495'656, CIRCA 2010
Closed28 November 2012
Price Realised
HKD 1,700,000
More Information
Specialist note
US$200,000-320,000
With Patek Philippe Certificate of Origin dated 8 April 2010, Rate Accuracy Certificate for Patek Philippe Tourbillon Watches, sales tag, instruction manual, product literature, leather portfolio, fitted slip case, presentation box and outer packaging.
Fresh to the market, the present watch is one of only 4 examples in pink gold to have come up for auction to date. The present example is furthermore in outstanding overall condition.
It takes much more than a cursory glance to realise that reference 5101 is a highly complicated wristwatch. In fact it is the first timepiece that combines two complications which are very difficult to accommodate in the confined space of a rectangular movement: two tandem mainspring barrels with 240 hours of energy storage capacity and a tourbillon precision regulator composed of 72 individual parts.
Characteristic for Patek Philippe, hardly any signs on the outside of the piece would reveal the complexity of its inner workings. Understated elegance has always been a hallmark of Patek Philippe but the tourbillon cage is in fact concealed for a very practical reason - the oil used to lubricate the mechanism is sensitive to ultraviolet rays and will decompose when exposed to daylight, thus losing its beneficial tribological properties. Extremely stringent standards are imposed on all Patek Philippe movements and even more so on tourbillon pieces.
With Patek Philippe Certificate of Origin dated 8 April 2010, Rate Accuracy Certificate for Patek Philippe Tourbillon Watches, sales tag, instruction manual, product literature, leather portfolio, fitted slip case, presentation box and outer packaging.
Fresh to the market, the present watch is one of only 4 examples in pink gold to have come up for auction to date. The present example is furthermore in outstanding overall condition.
It takes much more than a cursory glance to realise that reference 5101 is a highly complicated wristwatch. In fact it is the first timepiece that combines two complications which are very difficult to accommodate in the confined space of a rectangular movement: two tandem mainspring barrels with 240 hours of energy storage capacity and a tourbillon precision regulator composed of 72 individual parts.
Characteristic for Patek Philippe, hardly any signs on the outside of the piece would reveal the complexity of its inner workings. Understated elegance has always been a hallmark of Patek Philippe but the tourbillon cage is in fact concealed for a very practical reason - the oil used to lubricate the mechanism is sensitive to ultraviolet rays and will decompose when exposed to daylight, thus losing its beneficial tribological properties. Extremely stringent standards are imposed on all Patek Philippe movements and even more so on tourbillon pieces.