3 Titanium Patek Philippe pieces coming up for auction

In the watch world,  a watch made in small quantities usually gets major attention especially when it made by Patek Philippe and is made of a different material such as Stainless Steel.  Just look at the recent sale of Eric Claptons Patek Philippe 2499 in Platinum.  The reason why it sold for $3.65 million dollars was because one it was Eric Clapton's watch (He is an avid watch collector of Rolex and Patek Philippe) and secondly it was one of two pieces made in platinum.  The other piece resides in the Patek Philippe Museum.

At the upcoming Sothebys Watch Auction there are 3 Patek Philippes coming up for sale that are really rare.  Now we are not talking about stainless steel models.  We are talking about titanium pieces.  Patek Philippe have made titanium models for charitable organisations in the past, such as the Ref 5004T  Perpetual Calendar Splits Seconds for Only Watch. 

These new discovered pieces are completely bonkers!

The collector who ordered these pieces had to have some serious stroke with Patek Philippe.  The first is a Sky Moon Tourbillon, a watch with a $1 million dollar price tag in precious metal.  This piece is in TITANIUM! The back has East, North and West spelled out instead of the regular model having E,N & W.   Really frickin cool!

Beautiful engraving on the Titanium Case

The second piece is a Annual Calendar and Minute Repeater also in TITANIUM!

The third and final piece is a Celestial also in TITANIUM!

 Pictures used with permission from Hodinkee

I cannot wait to see the auction results!

Head over to Hodinkee for the full scoop!
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