149 Patek Philippe An attractive and fine, perpetual calendar, moon phases, leap year indicator, automatic wristwatch in white gold, with Certificate of Origin and presentation box, reference 5136/1G.
Estimate: € 30.000 – 60.000
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- Model Perpetual Calendar
- Year 2005
- Reference 5136/1G-001
- Case Material 18K white gold
- Case Number 4'292'352
- Bracelet Material 18K white gold Patek Philippe bracelet, approximate length 180mm
- Movement Automatic, cal. 240 Q, 27 jewels
- Movement Number 3'127'844
- Dimension 36.5mm Diameter
- Signed Case, dial and movement
- Accessories Accompanied by Patek Philippe Certificate of Origin dated July 2005 and stamped Orologeria Luigi Verga, leather wallet, additional solid caseback, setting pin, fitted presentation box and outer packaging.
In 1941, with the launch of the reference 1526, the first serially produced perpetual calendar wristwatch, the Geneva maison did more than introduce a complication: it established a philosophy. More than six decades later, in 2003, Patek Philippe unveiled the reference 5136, a model conceived not as a rupture with tradition, but as its natural continuation. If the legendary reference 3940 distilled the perpetual calendar to its purest late-20th-century form, and the bracelet-fitted reference 3945 of 1987 introduced a new dimension of integrated elegance, the 5136 refined the concept for a new millennium. Its slightly enlarged and more contemporary case proportions answered the evolving tastes of collectors, while preserving the clarity, balance and harmony that define Patek Philippe’s grand complications.
The present reference 5136, dating to circa 2005, is crafted in white gold and fitted with its superb and detachable gold bracelet. The dial, with its classical tri-compax calendar layout, remains a study in legibility and restraint: day and 24-hour indication to the left, month and leap-year cycle to the right, date by peripheral scale with central hand, and moon phases at six o’clock. Beneath this poised façade beats the automatic caliber 240Q.
Produced between 2003 and 2008 in yellow and white gold only, the reference 5136 was made in exceedingly small numbers. The present watch is further enhanced by its original Certificate of Origin, stamped by Orologeria Luigi Verga, underscoring its impeccable provenance and careful preservation.
In a world where complications are often pursued for spectacle, the 5136 stands apart. It embodies continuity rather than novelty, lineage rather than fashion.
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