ref.2526
Rose

A very fine and rare 18k rose gols self-winding wristwatch ref.2526 retailed by Serpico Y Laino.
With Patek Philippe Extract from the Archives confirming production of this watch with gold marker and rose gold bracelet in 1956 and its subsequent sale on March 20th 1957.
The rose gold bracelet is also signed by themanufacture and the retailer.

Introduced into the market in 1952, reference 2526 was Patek Philippe's first self-winding or automatic watch, starting with movement number 760'000. The model features the legendary calibre 12-600 AT which was granted Swiss patent no. 289758 in 1953 for "a self-winding mechanism for a wristwatch movement using the energy supplied by a rotary mass causing an eccentric part to transmit a swinging movement to an organ of the mechanism".

The majority of reference 2526 was cased in yellow gold, a small series in pink gold and an exceedingly limited number in white gold and platinum. Mainly fitted with enamel dials with applied gold baton numerals, the white gold and platinum examples were also available with silvered metal dials with diamond indexes.