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Lot Essay
Accompanied by a Patek Philippe Extract from the Archives confirming production of the present watch with white dial in 2006 and its subsequent sale on March 20th of the same year. Further accompanied by a Patek Philippe Certificate of Origin dated November 20th 2006, setting pin, Patek Philippe leather envelope, product literature, Patek Philippe presentation box, Patek Philippe presentation slip case, and outer packaging.
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.
To the best of our knowledge this watch has never before been offered in public.
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.
To the best of our knowledge this watch has never before been offered in public.