{"product_id":"open-face-in-18ct-gold-american-market-c-1937","title":"Open Face in 18ct Gold, American Market, c.1937","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Patek Philippe of about 1937 in 18-carat gold, its original silvered dial carrying applied Breguet numerals that have each toned to their own colour, with a movement made for the American market and engraved with the US import code PXP.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the late 1930s Patek Philippe had been making pocket watches in Geneva for nearly a century. This is an open face of 43.9mm in 18 carat gold, made around 1937 to the maker's full standard, with nothing on the dial beyond hours, minutes and a subsidiary seconds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe dial is original silvered metal with a subsidiary seconds register at six and a minute track of small raised dots. The numerals are applied Breguet style Arabic figures, and the gold hands match them, each drawn to a fine point with an open ring near the tip. The gilt of the numerals has oxidised over ninety years, and not evenly: each figure has taken its own colour, copper on the three, sea green on the four, a faint violet sheen on the nine. Nothing here has been repainted or replaced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe crystal is clear, the crown winds and sets correctly, and the movement runs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the PXP code and how to request an Extract from the Archives are set out in The Record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patek Philippe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54591950192979,"sku":"PW-0133","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/patek-philippe-18k-yellow-gold-pocket-watch-1_hero.jpg?v=1787310998","url":"https:\/\/estatecollection.nl\/products\/open-face-in-18ct-gold-american-market-c-1937","provider":"The Estate Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}