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PATEK PHILIPPE

Manufacturer/Manufaktur: Patek Philippe, Geneva. Model: "Carré étanche". Year/Jahr: 1951. Reference No./Referenz-Nr.: 1485. Movement No./Werk-Nr.: 956 311. Calibre/Kaliber: 10-200, manual-winding/Handaufzug. Case No./Gehäuse-Nr.: 657 215 (by Frères Bogel - Manufacture Taubert & Frères, Geneva; key No.11 or "FB"). Material: 18K rose gold/Roségold. Braclet-Strap/Armband: Black crocodile leather Patek Philippe strap/Schwarzes Patek Philippe-Krokodillederarmband. Clasp-Buckle/Verschluss: 18K rose gold Patek Philippe buckle/Patek Philippe-Verschluss aus 18 kt. Roségold. Dimensions/Grösse: 34,8x27,2 mm. Signed/Signiert: Dial, case, movement/Zifferblatt, Gehäuse, Werk. Accessories: Extract from the Archives/Archivauszug.

Square-shaped and vertical rectangular-shaped gentleman's wristwatch, water-resistant, with subsidiary seconds at 6. Polished two-piece case, with cylindrical hooded lugs, snap-on case-back and sliding bars on each side to keep the watch resistant to humidity and dust. Silver colour dial with suspended Roman applied rose gold numerals and indexes. 10-200 calibre, lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance with gold poising screws and blued steel Breguet hairspring, index regulator with spring and micrometric screw.

Wasserdichte Herrenarmbanduhr mit Kleiner Sekunde bei 6-Uhr. Poliertes, zweiteiliges Gehäuse mit zylindrischen Bandanstössen und Sprungboden. Silberfarbenes Zifferblatt mit aufgelegten römischen Ziffern und Indizes. Werk mit Ankerhemmung, geschnittener Bimetall-Unruh mit goldenen Abgleichschrauben und gebläuter Breguet-Spirale; Rückerzeiger mit Feder- und Mikrometer-Feinregulierung.

Bibliography: Huber & Banbery 1998, pp. 151-152; Goldberger 2010, pp. 202-203 (similar watch); Patrizzi 2010, vol. 2, pp. 114-115 (Nos. 483-484, similar watches).

Patek Philippe References 1485 "étanche" (water-resistant) and 1486 "étanche à cornes capuchonnées" (water-resistant with hooded lugs). These references are launched in 1940 and remained in production until the early-1950s. Ref. 1485 was made in stainless steel. Ref. 1486 was made in gold, the majority in yellow gold, more rarely in rose gold. The case is made under the Swiss invention patent No. 207 378, delivered on October 31, 1939 (requested on August 25, 1938), to Taubert Frères S.A., Geneva, for a "Dispositif de montage hermétique pour montre à mouvement de forme.". Both references have special sliding lateral bars to keep the watch resistant to humidity and dust. Between 100 to 200 examples were produced.