Despite its very short and small production, reference 2458 is very well known to the community of Patek Philippe collectors as it is the very reference that also the world famous J. B. Champion Observatory Chronometer has.


Interestingly, the present example in rose gold and the Champion were both sold in the same year, 1952. Examples in rose gold are very rare and only another five pieces are known today to have survived.


The example here has a lovely and unrestored dial and a very crisp and hardly polished case.