Patek Philippe World Time Eurasia Dial Watch Replica Was Sold with High Price at Auction
Three Eurasia Dial Watch Replica
The replica Patek Philippe World Time Ref. 2523 was introduced in 1953 with a slightly larger 36mm case by the standards of the time, a new double crown system and a world city disc integrated into the dial. A total of eleven Ref. 2523 watches are known to have been fitted with filigree enamel dials, five of which depict North America, three South America and three Eurasia. Of the last three, one is in the Patek Philippe Museum, one is in a private collection, and the one just discovered is the first to appear on the auction market.
The last time such a watch came up at auction was back in 2002 when it sold at Antiquorum for just over CHF 1.7 million. That Replica Patek Philippe watch replica had case no. 306201. This particular piece bears case no. 306193, which, as mentioned, was previously unknown – other than by the private collector who owned it, of course. According to Phillips, this is the earliest made 2523 Eurasia dial variant, with a production date of 1953 (and a sales record of December 7, 1954).
Hallowed Complication
Despite not being amongst the most complicated watches Patek Philippe made in the 20th century, its world-time wristwatches (and also pocket watches) are amongst the brand’s most coveted and valuable timepieces.
Well before the platinum ref. 1415 HU set a record in 2002, examples of the replica Patek Philippe watch ref. 2523 with cloisonné dial were regularly selling for well over US$1 million at auction in the 1990s – and are the inspiration for the today’s world-time models, including the recent ref. 5231J. The fact that the world-time was a favourite of Osvaldo Patrizzi, the founder of Antiquorum and then the most important person in watch auctions, doubtlessly contributed to the strong prices.
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| The pink gold ref. 2523 that sold for US$9.00 million in 2019 |
The intrinsic appeal of the world-time watches is manifold. To start with, they are visually distinctive and beautiful, with the enamelled versions being exceptionally pretty in a manner that few complicated watches can achieve. In fact, the world times are the only complicated replica Patek Philippe wristwatches to feature cloisonné enamel dials.
More broadly, the replica world-time watches also evoke a bygone era when intercontinental travel was actually an adventure undertaken by boat, rail, or propeller planes. In fact, the first commercial passenger services using jet airliners only started in 1952 with the ill-dated de Havilland Comet.
Perhaps the watch that symbolises the dawn of the jet age is the Rolex GMT-Master – originally developed for the pilots of Pan Am – which was introduced in 1955. In contrast, this example of the ref. 2523 – produced in 1953 and sold a year later – was very much a part of an era that was quickly coming to an end.
And it goes without saying that world-time wristwatches are extremely rare. Beyond the handful of experimental world-time wristwatches, like the rectangular ref. 515 or the Calatrava ref. 96 HU, the world-time complication was only found in two distinct models.
A little over a hundred of the ref. 1415 HU were made during its production run from 1939 to 1954. And from 1953 to the late 1960s, between two to three dozen of the ref. 2523 were produced, and about 10 of its nearly-identical successor ref. 2523/1.
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| Another variant of the Replica Patek Philippe World Time ref. 2523, this one with a guilloche dial |
One reason for the scarcity of the world-time watches is simple – they just did not sell well, according to Phillips. And another is the fact that the world-time complication was made by Louis Cottier (1894-1966), the Geneva engineer whose best known invention is the world time, which was also supplied to Rolex, Vacheron Constantin, and Agassiz, amongst others.
He invented several complications for Patek Philippe replica, including the linear-hour display of the experimental ref. 3414 (that has been reproduced in the modern day by Urwerk). All of the copy world time watches were powered by a 12-ligne movement – the cal. 12-400 in the ref. 2523 and the cal. 12-120 in the ref. 1415 – with Cottier adding the world time module onto the base plate. According to Phillips, Cottier also produced the hands of the world-time models, and assembled the finished watches.
Case & Dial
Aesthetically, this Patek Philippe watch replica is a marvel, not least of all because its time-telling capability allows for easy distinction of all the timezones simultaneously. The dial design is complex for sure, but it's laid out in such a manner that it really is both beautiful and functional. You have all the cities arrayed on the outer portion of the dial, a bi-color 24 hour readout, and then the polychrome cloisonné enamel center in marine blue, gold, green, and turquoise. The dial features a mix of Roman numeral and stick markers in yellow gold too. For this sale, the watch will come with three custom Patek straps in brown (pictured), yellow, and pistachio.
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