PATEK PHILIPPE - "Sector Dial" - Ref. 130 - Case no. 6157 - Lot 188
PATEK PHILIPPE - "Sector Dial" - Ref. 130 - Case no. 615732
Movement no. 860375
Provenance: Made in 1937 and sold on December 24 of the same year. Remained in the same family since the beginning.
18k (750 thousandths) yellow gold wrist chronograph with a dial called "sector dial" with double counters for the minutes and seconds. Round case, bears the Swiss guarantee hallmarks inside and for import into France, the manufacturer's key, snap-on caseback, signed. Two-tone dial called "Sector Dial" with two counters for indicating the 30 minutes and 60 seconds, tachymeter scale on a base of 1000 and 1/5th of a second graduation, applied Arabic numerals at 12 o'clock and 6 o'clock, sector graduation and internal minute track, signed. Mechanical movement with manual winding, Caliber 13''' CH, "Côtes de Genève" decoration, bimetallic balance, anchor escapement, advance / delay adjustment index, chronograph mechanism with column wheel, signed. Period 18k (750 thousandths) yellow gold pin buckle with warranty hallmarks. Signature on the case, dial and movement: "Patek Philippe & Co, Geneva".
Diameter: 33 mm - Gross weight. 46.1 g - Accompanied by its extract from the Patek Philippe factory registers issued on April 17, 2023.
Sold as is, case with the warranty hallmarks clearly visible under the lug and the edge of the caseband, rare dial variant called "Sector Dial", a period pin buckle, movement works but requires a regular overhaul, no warranty. This watch discovered in an estate inventory is a rare example in the family of the very first wrist chronographs produced by the Patek Philippe manufacture, especially if we observe this particular iconography of the dial called "Sector Dial".
This "anglicism" characterizes these dials with typically Art Deco lines, they are most often composed of two tones, one shiny in the center and the other matte interspersed and on the edge, which gives a very particular appearance providing great readability of the information (tachometer, railway timer).
This model belongs to the family of the reference 130 produced from 1934, it is part of the first productions of wrist chronographs at Patek Philippe; the design of its case is inspired by the famous "Calatrava" under the reference 96 which is the very first reference to leave the workshops from 1932, a design inspired by the lines of the Bauhaus.
The manufacture of this dial called "Sector Dial" is truly a distinctive sign of the watchmaking art at Patek Philippe in the Art Deco years, which can be explained among other things by the fact that the Stern Family, which took over the controls of the factory in 1932, was originally a dial manufacturer in Geneva under the name of "Stern Frères".
From this family heritage of "dial maker" at the beginning of the century, the Stern family has always taken particular care in the art of dial manufacturing and this example is one more opportunity to fully understand the watchmaking art that has made Patek Philippe prestigious since its origins.
Our example is one of the rare pieces produced by Patek Philippe with the dial called "Sector Dial", few examples have survived to this day in this state of conservation, it is a rare opportunity for a collector looking for three essential criteria for a watch: quality, rarity and provenance.
A quick nod to the date it was sold, December 24, 1937, so we can imagine that this watch was offered as a Christmas present and it remained in the hands of the descendants of the first owner and carefully preserved thereafter, before its discovery by the house of l'Huillier in Paris. Expert: ADER WATCHES, SFEP expert.
