Lot 46
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Patek Philippe. A fine and rare 18K pink gold automatic perpetual calendar wristwatch with retrograde date, sweep centre seconds, moon phases, original certificate and box
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Patek Philippe. A fine and rare 18K pink gold automatic perpetual calendar wristwatch with retrograde date, sweep centre seconds, moon phases, original certificate and box

Signed Patek Philippe, Genève, ref. 5059, movement no. 1'958'339, case no. 4'090'524, circa 2000

Details
Patek Philippe. A fine and rare 18K pink gold automatic perpetual calendar wristwatch with retrograde date, sweep centre seconds, moon phases, original certificate and box
Signed Patek Philippe, Genève, ref. 5059, movement no. 1'958'339, case no. 4'090'524, circa 2000
Movement: cal. 315 S QR, stamped with the Geneva seal, automatic, 31 jewels, signed
Dial: signed
Case: hinged back over a glazed display, 36 mm. diam., signed
With: 18K pink gold Patek Philippe deployant clasp, Certificate of Origin dated 28th August 2000, setting pin, product literature, leather wallet, winding presentation box and outer packaging.
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Lot Essay

Offered in excellent overall condition and with “full set”, the present pink gold reference 5059 is a model that is only found infrequently at auction and is becoming regarded as Patek Philippe classic.

Reference 5059, introduced in 1998, possesses an intriguing complication: a retrograde date display. The date is indicated by a hand progressing along a 240 degree 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 1. Reference 5059 was discontinued in 2006 and replaced by reference 5159.

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