Patek Philippe 3449-G1
Patek Philippe. An extremely rare, attractive and very important 18K gold manually-wound perpetual calendar wristwatch with moon phasesSigned Patek Philippe, Geneve, manufactured in 1961.
Cal. 23-300 Q nickel-finished lever movement stamped with the Geneva seal, 18 jewels, Gyromax balance, silvered matte dial, applied gold dot and baton indexes, windows for day and month, subsidiary dial for moon phases and date, circular case, stepped bezel, snap on back, stepped sides, straight angled lugs, 18K gold Patek Philippe buckle, case, dial and movement signed37 mm. diam.
Known to have just three pieces on Earth.
One in Patek Philippe Museum, one in HK as there was no customer wanted to buy at Lam Yuen Fung, the sole agent of Patek Philippe in the 60s’ the watch was retained by Lam Yuen Fung and it was shown on Asia TV series "把酒當歌"on 21 Dec 2012.
The other One was known to be sold at Christie with ($1,589,632) on 14 Nov 2011.
This watch is estimated to be at least worth HKD$15,000,000 if it is asked for auction now I guess.
HK Snob
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