| Details | ||
| Stock # | SKU17473 | |
| Stock # | 17473 | |
| Model Name | Minute Repeater Perpetual Calendar | |
| Brand | ||
| Model Ref # | 3974 J | |
| Condition | Indiscernible from New | |
| Gender | Mens | |
| Movement | Automatic | |
| Case | 18K Yellow Gold | |
| Case Shape | Round | |
| Case Size | 36mm | |
| Crystal | ||
| Band / Strap | Strap | |
| Dial | White | |
| Caseback | Display | |
| Complications |
Perpetual Calendar Minute Repeater Moonphase |
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| Year | ||
| Additional Information | ||
| Sold | ||
Description
Here is one of Patek Philippe's most important and treasured watches: the minute repeating perpetual calendar reference 3974. Even for watch dealers, the occasion to see and admire such a hallowed horological object as the reference 3974 is rare. As far as minute repeaters are concerned--Patek Philippe is the most hallowed… As far as models are concerned--the 3974 is the most coveted. Automatic…perpetual…and minute repeating--all housed in a massive Calatrava case. Classic.
Patek produced the 3974 between 1989 and 1997, and marked Patek’s 150th Anniversary.
I have heard it said that to understand women, it is better to spend ten years with the same woman, than to spend ten years with a different woman each night. So it is with collecting fine watches. A collector can own hundreds of watches over a lifetime, and not understand horology as well as he will by owning one watch as magnificent as this 3974.
Case is 18k yellow gold with dimensions of 36mm diameter by 12mm thick. Sapphire crystals front and back. The case was made by John Pierre Hagman, Patek Philippe’s and Geneva’s most celebrated and revered case maker. Mr. Hagman is so important and highly regarded that Patek has a “JHP” hallmark used on the cases that he makes. Importantly, Mr. Hagman did not make all 3974 cases, only a handful of them. The reference 3974 is the last minute repeater watch with JHP cases.
Dial is solid gold with matte silver color and applied gold stick markers and dauphine hands. The subdial at 3 o'clock displays month and leap year cycle. Subdial at 6 o'clock displays date and moonphase. Subdial at 9 o'clock displays day and 24 hour (am/pm) time.
Movement is the automatic winding Patek Philippe Caliber R 27 Q. Movement also features 39 jewels, self-compensating free-sprung balance balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, and stamped with the Geneva Seal. The caliber also features a 22k micro rotor with hand guilloche. The minute repeater's hammer and gongs can be seen through the display back crystal.
Condition is immaculate, indiscernible from new, with second case back, box and papers.
Patek produced the 3974 between 1989 and 1997, and marked Patek’s 150th Anniversary.
I have heard it said that to understand women, it is better to spend ten years with the same woman, than to spend ten years with a different woman each night. So it is with collecting fine watches. A collector can own hundreds of watches over a lifetime, and not understand horology as well as he will by owning one watch as magnificent as this 3974.
Case is 18k yellow gold with dimensions of 36mm diameter by 12mm thick. Sapphire crystals front and back. The case was made by John Pierre Hagman, Patek Philippe’s and Geneva’s most celebrated and revered case maker. Mr. Hagman is so important and highly regarded that Patek has a “JHP” hallmark used on the cases that he makes. Importantly, Mr. Hagman did not make all 3974 cases, only a handful of them. The reference 3974 is the last minute repeater watch with JHP cases.
Dial is solid gold with matte silver color and applied gold stick markers and dauphine hands. The subdial at 3 o'clock displays month and leap year cycle. Subdial at 6 o'clock displays date and moonphase. Subdial at 9 o'clock displays day and 24 hour (am/pm) time.
Movement is the automatic winding Patek Philippe Caliber R 27 Q. Movement also features 39 jewels, self-compensating free-sprung balance balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, and stamped with the Geneva Seal. The caliber also features a 22k micro rotor with hand guilloche. The minute repeater's hammer and gongs can be seen through the display back crystal.
Condition is immaculate, indiscernible from new, with second case back, box and papers.
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