PATEK PHILIPPE

Brand: Patek Philippe
Model: Ellipse
Year: '70s/'80s
Reference: 3604
Dial: White
Case No.: 2747XXX
Movement: Automatic winding
Cal: Patek Philippe 23 255C
Material: 18kt white gold
Bracelet-Strap: Leather
Size: 36mm
Notes: 18kt white gold self-winding solo time watch. White tapisserie sigma dial, 18kt white gold baton hour markers and spheres. Date window at 4 o'clock. Patek Philippe leather strap, Patek Philippe 18kt white gold buckle. 18kt white gold push-button caseback. Flat sapphire crystal.

Produced in 1968, with a design influenced by the famous concept of the golden ratio, considered by mathematicians and technicians to be the most aesthetically perfectible, to the point of having “divine” proportions. , the Patek Philippe Ellipse is among the most variant models produced by the Maison in the late 1970s. So much so that it has more than 60 references in its catalogue, ranging from large men's watches to high jewellery pieces for ladies. The Ellipse is today the second oldest model in the Patek Philippe catalogue still in production, after the Calatrava.

This ref. 3604 is equipped with an unusual dial with silver-coloured tapisserie workmanship that makes the timepiece a style icon still relevant today; the reference 3604 is generously sized, with an estimated 1900 examples produced between 1971 and 1980. This configuration is among the rarest of the reference