Bonhams Watch Auction
Discussion
levron73 said:
Some fantastic watches on there check out the £200k patek
Indeed!LukeBird said:
Oh and this a snip at an estimated £150-200k! 
The Patek perpetual calendar with chronograph is a serious complication - in fact short of shoehorning a minute repeater in there as well, it's pretty much the most useful 'serious' complication set you can get. I suppose a power reserve would be nice in a hand-wind, but you can't have everything 
The fact that Patek have been making them for ages and haven't needed to use 45mm cases and vast amounts of blingery shows how brilliant a movement this is - they can fetch that sort of money because there aren't too many other manufactures making things like that in that size. I think JLC do a perpetual calendar with column wheel chrono but I've no idea how big it is.
Shame Patek hide that gorgeous movement (check out the photo!) under a solid case back, but that's Patek, boring as ever. I suppose a display back is too showy and immature, who knows... if I was paying £200k for a Patek like that (actually you can get normal Patek perpetual calendars ref 3940 for around the £20k plus mark) then I'd be asking Patek politely but firmly to make me a display back for the watch
They'd probably charge £5k for a fiver's worth of sapphire crystal and £50 worth of gold, but it'd make the watch so much special to me...Actually, having a quick browse through the rarer Pateks, it's things like this (perpetual calendar, chronographs) where they start to evoke the Pavlovian responses... as I've said before (and been both castigated for and agreed with.. seems like a polarising opinion) the 'normal' Patek watches simply don't *excite* to a watch enthusiast - there's nothing there (Calatravas, etc.) that seems worth the money, everything is too subtle and hidden away. But when you get to the more serious complications - I can see the appeal. I can't find any other perpetual calendar *with* chrono for sale, but a few 3940s on eBay... I'd be happy wearing one of those, if only to laugh at everyone else on the 1st of the month following a 30 day month, as they adjust their expensive (but lesser) watches
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