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Patek Philippe. A fine and rare stainless steel automatic wristwatch with date, sweep centre seconds, bracelet and box
Lot 90 PATEK PHILIPPE
Nautilus Ref. 3800/1 Stainless Steel

The Property of the Original Owner

Patek Philippe. A fine and rare stainless steel automatic wristwatch with date, sweep centre seconds, bracelet and box

Signed Patek Philippe, Genève, Nautilus model, ref. 3800/1, movement no. 3’021’648, case no. 4’009’595, manufactured in 1996

Closed20 July 2020

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Patek Philippe. A fine and rare stainless steel automatic wristwatch with date, sweep centre seconds, bracelet and box
Signed Patek Philippe, Genève, Nautilus model, ref. 3800/1, movement no. 3’021’648, case no. 4’009’595, manufactured in 1996
Movement: cal. 330 SC, automatic, stamped with the Geneva seal, 30 jewels, signed
Dial: signed
Case: two-part secured by four screws in the band, inside bezel numbered 595, 37 mm. wide, signed
With: stainless steel Patek Philippe bracelet with deployant clasp, overall length of approx. 180 mm., Extract from the Archives confirming production of the present watch in stainless steel, black matte ribbed dial, applied white gold indexes and tritium in 1996 and its subsequent sale on 17 February 1997, presentation box

Specialist note

Consigned by the original owner the present watch has never been offered in public before.

It is from the third series of the model, featuring cal. 330 SC movement which was made until 1997. The "sigma" symbols on either side of the designation "Swiss" on the dial indicates that the indexes are made of 18K white gold.

Reference 3800
Reference 3800/1 was in production from 1981 to 2006 and offered an alternative to larger sized “Jumbo” Nautilus watches. Considered three-quarter sized, it was available in a large array of styles in all four case metals as well as in two-tone cases.

The reference 3800 is an iconic and important watch suitably sized for a man's or lady's wrist. It pays homage to the original Nautilus reference 3700 with a similar design and aesthetic and with the addition of a centre seconds hand with the introduction of Patek Philippe's caliber 335 SC. The caliber was updated around 1992 and became caliber 330 SC, as featured in the present watch.