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PATEK PHILIPPE. A VERY FINE AND RARE PLATINUM PERPETUAL CALENDAR SPLIT SECONDS CHRONOGRAPH WRISTWATCH WITH MOON PHASES, 24 HOUR AND LEAP YEAR INDICATION
Lot 2920 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTOR

PATEK PHILIPPE. A VERY FINE AND RARE PLATINUM PERPETUAL CALENDAR SPLIT SECONDS CHRONOGRAPH WRISTWATCH WITH MOON PHASES, 24 HOUR AND LEAP YEAR INDICATION

SIGNED PATEK PHILIPPE, GENEVE, REF. 5004P, MOVEMENT NO. 879’675, CASE NO. 4’034’185, MANUFACTURED IN 1997

Closed28 November 2016

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PATEK PHILIPPE. A VERY FINE AND RARE PLATINUM PERPETUAL CALENDAR SPLIT SECONDS CHRONOGRAPH WRISTWATCH WITH MOON PHASES, 24 HOUR AND LEAP YEAR INDICATION
SIGNED PATEK PHILIPPE, GENEVE, REF. 5004P, MOVEMENT NO. 879’675, CASE NO. 4’034’185, MANUFACTURED IN 1997
MOVEMENT: Manual, Cal. 27-70 Q, Geneva seal, 28 jewels
DIAL: Semi-glossy black, applied Arabic numerals, two apertures for day and month, three subsidiary dials for constant seconds combined with 24 hour indication, 30 minute register combined with leap year indication and date combined with moon phases
CASE: Platinum, glazed display screw back, split seconds chronograph mechanism operated through the two chronograph buttons in the band and the crown, 36.5 mm. diam.
STRAP/BUCKLE: Patek Philippe crocodile strap, platinum Patek Philippe deployant clasp
ACCOMPANIED BY: Patek Philippe presentation box, outer packaging and Patek Philippe Extract from the Archives confirming date of sale on 21 April 1998.

Specialist note

Consigned by an important private collector, the present platinum reference 5004 is already considered a modern classic. In essence, this reference derives its features from the reference 3970, which itself is based on the legendary reference 2499. However, reference 5004 steps up a gear in terms of complication by boasting the highly complex split seconds function. Reference 5004 is roughly one millimeter larger than reference 3970 and also easily recognizable by its oversized split-seconds pusher in the crown.

Patek Philippe replaced it with the reference 5204, released in March 2012 at the Baselworld with in-house calibre CHR 29-535 PS Q.

To the best of our knowledge, the present watch has never been offered in public before.

Reference 5004 is illustrated in Patek Philippe Wristwatches by Martin Huber & Alan Banbery, second edition, p. 312.