Patek Philippe - The New York Watch Auction: XI New York Saturday, December 7, 2024 | Phillips
  • Manufacturer: Patek Philippe
    Year: 2021
    Reference No: 5230R-012
    Movement No: 7’413’521
    Case No: 6’230’632
    Model Name: World Time
    Material: 18K pink gold
    Calibre: Automatic, cal. 240 HU, 33 jewels
    Bracelet/Strap: Crocodile
    Clasp/Buckle: 18K pink gold Patek Philippe deployant clasp
    Dimensions: 38.5mm diameter
    Signed: Case, dial, movement and clasp signed.
    Accessories: Accompanied by Patek Philippe Certificate of Origin dated September 20th, 2021, leather folio, product literatures, presentation box and outer packaging.

  • Catalogue Essay

    Louis Cottier’s groundbreaking World Time mechanism revolutionized wristwatches by allowing wearers to instantly view the time across multiple time zones. Developed in the 1930s and adapted by brands such as Patek Philippe, this system uses a rotating 24-hour disc synchronized with a ring of reference cities, enabling seamless timekeeping across the globe.

    Introduced in 2016, the Patek Philippe Reference 5230 is a modern descendant of the iconic World Time watches first launched by the brand in the 1930s, which have since become ultimate collectables in the world of vintage Patek Philippe.

    The present timepiece features a patented pusher at 10 o'clock that effortlessly sets the home time zone displayed at 12 o'clock, offering a unique blend of innovation and tradition. Powered by the slim and elegant calibre 240 HU, it displays the time across 24 time zones, with a beautifully designed inner ring indicating night and day through sun and moon symbols.

    While Patek Philippe also offers world time models with cloisonné enamel maps for dial centers, there is an understated beauty and timeless elegance with this grey guilloché dial, as it enhances the silver hour ring and opaline dial. Fresh-to-market and kept in like new condition, it is accompanied by its complete set of accessories.

  • 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. 5230R-012
A very fine and attractive pink gold world-time wristwatch with guilloché dial, Certificate of Origin, and presentation box

2021
38.5mm diameter
Case, dial, movement and clasp signed.

Estimate
$25,000 - 50,000 
CHF22,000-44,000
€23,400-46,900
HK$194,000-389,000

Sold for $35,560

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The New York Watch Auction: XI

New York Auction 7 - 8 December 2024