ref.533
Yellow, Chronograph

An extremely fine and very rare 18k yellow gold manual winding chronograh wristwatch ref.533.
With Patek Philipps Extract from the Archives confirming production of this watch with applied gold hour markers and tachymetric scale in 1941 and its subsequent sale on April 29th, 1942.

Ref.533 was first made in 1937 and remained in production until 1957. In the succession of Patek Philippe chronographs, its closest relative is ref.130, which was introduced already in 1930. Both models have the typical, early rectangular chronograph pushers and similarly shaped cases; both come equipped with the same calibre 13-130. The one distinguishing feature is the bezel which is flat on ref.533, whereas the bezel on ref.130 is concave.



A little more than 300 examples of the ref.533 were produced according to our research. Of those, the majority were cased in pink gold and only around a third of the production was in yellow gold such as the present lot.