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Patek Philippe. A fine and rare platinum automatic perpetual calendar wristwatch with retrograde date, center seconds, moon phases, certificate and box
Lot 227 PATEK PHILIPPE
Platinum Ref. 5059 First Series


The Property of an Important Italian Private Collection

Patek Philippe. A fine and rare platinum automatic perpetual calendar wristwatch with retrograde date, center seconds, moon phases, certificate and box

Signed Patek Philippe, Genève, ref. 5059P, movement no. 1'957'996, case no. 4'066'639, circa 1999

Closed13 May 2019

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CHF 50,000

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Patek Philippe. A fine and rare platinum automatic perpetual calendar wristwatch with retrograde date, center seconds, moon phases, certificate and box
Signed Patek Philippe, Genève, ref. 5059P, movement no. 1'957'996, case no. 4'066'639, circa 1999
Movement: cal. 315 S-QR stamped with the Geneva seal, automatic, 31 jewels, signed
Dial: signed
Case: hinged back revealing a sapphire crystal display back, 36 mm. diam., signed
With: platinum Patek Philippe deployant clasp, Certificate of Origin stamped by Missiaglia s.r.l., Venice, confirming date of sale on 23rd September, 1999, leather wallet, literature, sales tag and presentation box.

This endangered species strap is shown for display purposes only and is not for sale. The watch will be supplied with a calf leather strap.

Specialist note

To the best of our knowledge this watch has never before been offered in public. It is furthermore preserved in very good overall condition.

The movement number 1’957’996 shows that it is an example from the first series of reference 5059 which have movement numbers between 1'957'XXX and 1'958'XXX

Reference 5059, introduced into the market in 1998, possesses an intriguing complication: a retrograde date display. The date is indicated by a hand progressing along a 240 arc located within the hour scale between 8 and 4 o'clock. Around midnight on the last day of each month, be it the 28th, 29th, 30th, or 31st, the hand automatically jumps back to the numeral 1.

Reference 5059 was discontinued in 2006 and replaced by reference 5159.