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Lot Essay
With Patek Philippe Extract from the Archives confirming production of the present watch with white gold bracelet in 1958 and its subsequent sale on March 10th of the following year.
To the best of our knowledge this watch has never before been offered in public.
The reference 2526, introduced in 1953, was Patek Philippe's first model featuring a self-winding movement. According to research, the company manufactured circa 2,800 movements encased as the reference 2526 until 1960 with appproximately only 60 examples produced in 18k white gold. Another rare feature of the present lot is the luminous enamel dial. Although the yellow and pink gold versions almost always possess enamel dials, the majority of the known white gold and platinum pieces were produced with metal dials with diamond indexes. White gold apears to be the rarest of all the metals used for the cases of the reference 2526.
For another example of the reference 2526 see Huber & Banbery, Patek Philippe Wristwatches, Volume 2, Second Edition, p. 213.
To the best of our knowledge this watch has never before been offered in public.
The reference 2526, introduced in 1953, was Patek Philippe's first model featuring a self-winding movement. According to research, the company manufactured circa 2,800 movements encased as the reference 2526 until 1960 with appproximately only 60 examples produced in 18k white gold. Another rare feature of the present lot is the luminous enamel dial. Although the yellow and pink gold versions almost always possess enamel dials, the majority of the known white gold and platinum pieces were produced with metal dials with diamond indexes. White gold apears to be the rarest of all the metals used for the cases of the reference 2526.
For another example of the reference 2526 see Huber & Banbery, Patek Philippe Wristwatches, Volume 2, Second Edition, p. 213.