Patek Philippe - The New York Watch Auction: XI New York Saturday, December 7, 2024 | Phillips
  • Manufacturer: Patek Philippe
    Year: Circa 2018
    Reference No: 5960/1A-010
    Movement No: 7’064’297
    Case No: 6’103’704
    Material: Stainless steel
    Calibre: Automatic, CH 28-520 IRM QA 24H, 40 jewels
    Bracelet/Strap: Stainless steel Patek Philippe bracelet, max length 200mm
    Clasp/Buckle: Stainless steel Patek Philippe deployant clasp
    Dimensions: 40.5mm diameter
    Signed: Case, dial, movement, and bracelet signed.
    Accessories: Accompanied by Patek Philippe Certificate of Origin dated March 1st, 2018, product literature, leather folio, envelope, numbered hang tag, setting pin, fitted presentation box, slip cloth, outer presentation box, and outer packaging.

  • Catalogue Essay

    The Patek Philippe reference 5960 was introduced in 2006 as the first model to feature the combination of the firm’s inaugural in-house self-winding chronograph and the annual calendar complication. Variations in platinum, then white and pink gold were produced before 2014, when a stainless steel – a rare metal for Patek Philippe to use – iteration was introduced. Coupled with a beads-of-rice style bracelet, it was first produced with a white dial, and then in 2017, with a black dial for only one year. This exclusivity makes it one of the most coveted versions of Patek’s annual calendar chronographs.

    Flip the watch over and one is invited to admire the in-house automatic calibre CH 28-520 IRM QA 24H in action through the sapphire caseback. It is a flyback column-wheel chronograph movement fitted with a unidirectional 21K gold rotor, delivering a frequency of 28,800 semi-oscillations per hour. It boasts a remarkable technical innovation which enables the clamps to act on a disk clutch that transmits or interrupts the power between the fourth wheel and the chronograph hand, thus making it possible to use the chronograph hand as a continuously running seconds hand without affecting the watch’s accuracy. For this reason, the subsidiary seconds dial traditionally found on the classic Patek Philippe column-wheel chronographs is not needed.

    Presented in exceptional overall condition, and offered with its full set of original accessories, the present lot is the perfect addition to the collection of any modern connoisseur.

  • Artist Biography

    Patek Philippe

    Swiss • 1839

    Since its founding in 1839, this famous Geneva-based firm has been surprising its clientele with superbly crafted timepieces fitted with watchmaking's most prestigious complications. Traditional and conservative designs are found across Patek Philippe's watches made throughout their history — the utmost in understated elegance.

    Well-known for the Graves Supercomplication — a highly complicated pocket watch that was the world’s most complicated watch for 50 years — this family-owned brand has earned a reputation of excellence around the world. Patek's complicated vintage watches hold the highest number of world records for results achieved at auction compared with any other brand. For collectors, key models include the reference 1518, the world's first serially produced perpetual calendar chronograph, and its successor, the reference 2499. Other famous models include perpetual calendars such as the ref. 1526, ref. 3448 and 3450, chronographs such as the reference 130, 530 and 1463, as well as reference 1436 and 1563 split seconds chronographs. Patek is also well-known for their classically styled, time-only "Calatrava" dress watches, and the "Nautilus," an iconic luxury sports watch first introduced in 1976 as the reference 3700 that is still in production today.

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Ref. 5960/1A-010
A sporty stainless steel annual calendar flyback chronograph wristwatch with power reserve, day/night indication, bracelet, Certificate of Origin, and presentation box

Circa 2018
40.5mm diameter
Case, dial, movement, and bracelet signed.

Estimate
$35,000 - 70,000 
CHF30,800-61,600
€32,800-65,600
HK$272,000-544,000

Sold for $82,550

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The New York Watch Auction: XI

New York Auction 7 - 8 December 2024