Stainless Steel · Two-Tone Dial with Tachymeter

Chronograph 130 — Stainless Steel · Two-Tone Dial with Tachymeter

Undated

Two-tone dial with enamelled tachymeter and applied steel markers; only about 21 two-tone steel 130s have appeared at auction. Example: case 626'181, made 1943, sold 1945.

Stainless-steel ref. 130 with a silvered two-tone sector dial, applied steel hour markers, Arabic 12 and 6, and an outer tachymeter scale (confirmed by the Archive extract per the lot text); square pushers. · Photo: Sotheby's · © Sotheby's, used with permission · Source: https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2025/important-watches/reference-130-a-stainless-steel-chronograph

Identifying details

Chronograph
Stopwatch function with registers.
Tachymeter scale on dial

Variants of 130

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Variant	Production
Gold	Undated
Stainless Steel	1937–1951
Stainless Steel · Two-Tone Dial with TachymeterCurrent	Undated
Monopusher, Victorin Piguet Movement	Undated

Case & movement

Reference: 130
Production: Undated
Case material: Stainless steel
Case diameter: 33 mm
Movement: Manual winding
Date: No
Caliber: Patek Philippe 13-130

Dial, bezel & hands

Unknown attributes are left out rather than guessed. Unstated details are inherited from the parent variant.

Movement

Patek Philippe 13-130

13-ligne column-wheel chronograph built on a Valjoux 13''' ébauche (Valjoux cal. 23 base) and finished by Patek Philippe; catalogued simply as “cal. 13'''”. Powered the ref. 130 and the 1940s–1960s chronographs.

Identifying details