Pink Gold
Minute Repeater 3979 — Pink Gold
Undated
The only known pink-gold 3979: made 1996, sold by Wempe that year for DM 436,500.
About 100 made; 24 publicly documented.
No verified image of this watch yet
Identifying details
- Minute repeater
Chimes the hours, quarters and minutes on demand.
- Small seconds
Subsidiary seconds dial.
Variants of 3979
Reference overview →| Variant | Production |
|---|---|
| Yellow Gold | Undated |
| Yellow Gold · White Dial with Breguet Numerals (Special Order) | Undated |
| Pink GoldCurrent | Undated |
Case & movement
- Reference
- 3979
- Production
- Undated
- Case material
- 18k rose gold
- Case diameter
- 33 mm
- Movement
- Automatic
- Date
- No
- Caliber
- Patek Philippe R 27 PS
Dial, bezel & hands
Unknown attributes are left out rather than guessed.
Movement
Patek Philippe R 27 PS
Patek’s first fully in-house minute repeater movement, self-winding with a micro-rotor and small seconds; created for the 150th anniversary.
Automatic · Introduced 1989 · 39 jewels