Swiss gold open faced pocket watch with six complications Circa 1946

Gold dress watch with perpetual calendar by Patek Philippe
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A rare Swiss gold open faced dress watch with perpetual calendar and moon phases, circa 1946.
Round-shaped 18-carat yellow gold case with snap-on case back. Inside case back engraved in taille-douce with the mention V.C.K. to P.W.K. 12.25.47. Silvered dial with applied Arabic and bullet indexes, subsidiary seconds at 6; Half-instantaneous perpetual calendar – Date of the month, subsidiary dial at 3 o’clock – Day of the week, subsidiary dial at 9 o’clock; indications given in English – Month of the year, subsidiary dial at 12 o’clock; indications given in English – Phases of the moon, aperture at 6 o’clock – Four-year cycle of leap-years, subsidiary dial at 12 o’clock, and Feuille hands. Keyless-winding, rhodium-plated movement with going barrel, straight-line equilibrated lever escapement, compensated balance and blued steel hairspring with a terminal curve, index regulator with swan-neck spring and micrometric screw, adjusted to heat, cold isochronism end. Dial, case and movement signed.
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Diameter: 46 mm
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Signed: Patek Philippe Genève