Lot Essay
US$40,000-60,000
With Patek Philippe Certificate of Origin dated 3 January 2005, setting pin, product literature, instruction manual, sales tag, pouch, leather wallet, fitted presentation box and outer packaging.
The present watch is fresh to the market and furthermore in excellent overall condition.
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.
With Patek Philippe Certificate of Origin dated 3 January 2005, setting pin, product literature, instruction manual, sales tag, pouch, leather wallet, fitted presentation box and outer packaging.
The present watch is fresh to the market and furthermore in excellent overall condition.
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.