{"product_id":"geneva-sealed-18ct-gold-adjusted-to-five-positions-c-1960","title":"Geneva-Sealed 18ct Gold, Adjusted to Five Positions, c.1960","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Patek Philippe open face in 18ct yellow gold with the Geneva Seal: caliber 17-140 confirmed on the movement plate, regulated to the fullest specification the house offered, its silvered dial in the clean mid-century style of the Calatrava era.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome Patek Philippe pocket watches were made as spectacle. This one was made simply to be correct: an open face of 42.5mm in 18ct yellow gold, the discreet format of the mid-century, its edges still sharp. In the hand it is compact and dense, smaller than the railway-grade open faces of the earlier generation but heavier than it looks, the way solid gold at this scale always is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dial is silvered metal in the design language Patek Philippe used across its mid-century production: applied 18ct gold faceted lance indexes in place of numerals, matching gold dauphine hands, a minute track of small dots, and a recessed subsidiary seconds register at six. It is the restrained look of the Calatrava wristwatches of the period, applied to a pocket watch. The surface is even and clean, the printing sharp, and the indexes still catch the light on their facets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA watch like this was bought by someone who understood exactly what they were paying for: not size, not decoration, but regulation and finish. Sixty or seventy years later that is still the whole point of it, and it has barely aged in the keeping.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe seal, the marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the reference and archive record are set out in The Record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patek Philippe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54591949996371,"sku":"PW-0126","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/patek-philippe-18ct-yellow-gold-pocket-watch-1_hero.jpg?v=1786753673","url":"https:\/\/estatecollection.nl\/products\/geneva-sealed-18ct-gold-adjusted-to-five-positions-c-1960","provider":"The Estate Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}