PATEK PHILIPPE REF. 5004 FIRST GENERATION PINK GOLD
Patek Philippe, Genève, movement No. 879607, case No. 2997167 Ref. 5004R. Sold in 1997.
Extremely rare and important, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with split-seconds
chronograph, registers, perpetual calendar, moon phases, leap year, 24 hour indication and
an 18K pink gold Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by a Patek Philippe fitted box, Certificate
of Origin, booklets, stylus and additional solid case back.
Three-body, solid, polished, transparent screwed-down case back, case band with
4 correctors, co-axial pushbutton in the crown for the split-seconds function, concave
bezel, fluted lugs, sapphire crystals.
Silvered with applied pink gold Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the 30-minute
register and leap year at 3, the days of the month at 6, the seconds and the 24 hours at
9, apertures for the days of the week and month in Italian, phases of the moon, outer
1/5th seconds track. Pink gold feuille hands.
Cal. CHR 27-70Q, stamped with the Seal of Geneva quality mark, rhodium- plated,
fausses cotes decoration, 28 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, free-sprung Glucydur
Gyromax balance, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring.