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PATEK PHILIPPE

Manufacturer/Manufaktur: Patek Philippe, Geneva. Model: "Carré étanche". Year/Jahr: 1941. Reference No./Referenz-Nr.: 1485. Movement No./Werk-Nr.: 910 545. Calibre/Kaliber: 10-110, manual-winding/Handaufzug. Case No./Gehäuse-Nr.: 624 488 (by Frères Borgel-Manufacture Taubert & Frères, Geneva; key No.11 or "FB"). Material: Steinless steel/Edelstahl. Braclet-Strap/Armband: Black crocodile leather strap/Schwarzes Krokodillederarmband. Clasp-Buckle/Verschluss: Stainless steel buckle/Edelstahl-Verschluss. 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 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 Arabic applied steel numerals and black painted radial indexes. 10-110 calibre, lever escapement, Glucydur screw-balance and blued steel Breguet hairspring, index regulator with spring and micrometric screw, adjusted to heat, cold isochronism and 5 positions, Geneva seal.

Wasserdichte Herrenarmbanduhr mit Kleiner Sekunde bei 6-Uhr. Poliertes, zweiteiliges Gehäuse mit zylindrischen Bandanstössen und Sprungboden. Silberfarbenes Zifferblatt mit arabischen Ziffern und schwarzen Indizes. Werk mit Ankerhemmung, Glucydur-Schraubenunruh, gebläuter Breguet-Spirale und Rückerzeiger mit Feder- und Mikrometer-Feinregulierung; Regulierung in 5 Positionen sowie auf Hitze, Kälte und Isochronismus, Genfer Siegel.

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.