Luxury Watches Vintage collectible
Rank 08
Patek Philippe Ref. 2499 Perpetual Calendar Chronograph
The mid-century perpetual-calendar chronograph benchmark—Vichet and pink first-series pieces still define serious Patek scholarship.
Photograph by EMore98, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
Why it is here
Hodinkee’s 2026 Phillips mega-Patek preview highlights first-series pink Vichet 2499 scarcity; Worldtempus Geneva auction-records coverage situates 2499/1518 as the vintage PCC lineage UHNW buyers chase.
Who it is for
Advanced vintage Patek collectors building a PCC set where case/dial scholarship matters more than modern steel sports.
Sources
- Auctions: Phillips Bringing Three Mega Pateks to Its Spring SalesFirst-series pink Vichet 2499 (<50 of 349; only four pink Vichet) across Phillips spring sales.
- Auction records in GenevaSteel 1518 CHF 14.19M world record vintage Patek; pink-on-pink 1518 context for PCC scholarship adjacent to 2499.
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