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Lot Essay
With Patek Philippe service center invoice dated 19 June 2015, leather folder, product literature and cardboard Patek Philippe service box. Furthermore delivered with Patek Philippe Extract from the Archives confirming production of this watch in platinum with black dial and Roman numerals in 1997, and its subsequent sale on 9 December 1997
Fresh to the market this reference 5035 is furthermore preserved in very good overall condition.
Launched in 1996 and produced until 2005, this reference is the first watch to incorporate an annual calendar, ever. It was available in the three gold colors and, like this watch, in platinum.
Until that time, the levels of complication of calendar watches were, in order of increasing complexity: date only, day and date, triple calendar (to be corrected at the end of each non-31-days-long month) and then the next available option was the highly complicated perpetual calendar. The annual calendar was devised to offer an intermediate option: more practical than a triple calendar (it has to be set only once a year, on March 1st) but more affordable than the perpetual calendar. This watch was serviced by Patek Philippe in June of this year, and is consequently in perfect working order.
Fresh to the market this reference 5035 is furthermore preserved in very good overall condition.
Launched in 1996 and produced until 2005, this reference is the first watch to incorporate an annual calendar, ever. It was available in the three gold colors and, like this watch, in platinum.
Until that time, the levels of complication of calendar watches were, in order of increasing complexity: date only, day and date, triple calendar (to be corrected at the end of each non-31-days-long month) and then the next available option was the highly complicated perpetual calendar. The annual calendar was devised to offer an intermediate option: more practical than a triple calendar (it has to be set only once a year, on March 1st) but more affordable than the perpetual calendar. This watch was serviced by Patek Philippe in June of this year, and is consequently in perfect working order.