Bring a Loupe: An Historically Important Rolex Deep Sea, A Doré Dial Patek QP, And A 19th Century Eccentric Breguet

Surfacing on the market by way of a smaller, estate-focused public sale home in Detroit, Michigan, this ref. 3940 options that all-important champagne dial tone. “Doré” dials, as they’re identified on authentic Patek certificates of the time, are a rarer dial choice than the extra normal silvered or “white” dials which are usually seen on these yellow gold Patek QPs. As 3940s go, the sooner the manufacturing, the higher, and it simply so occurs that these champagne-flavored dials are concentrated in first and second-series examples, solely including to their collectibility. Whereas the dials are usually present in probably the most collectible manufacturing runs and on these earliest Beyer-retailed examples, the flat-out reality is that the doré tone fits the 3940J greatest. I’m usually not a fan of gold-tone dials, however this reference is a notable exception.