In production between 2011 and 2017, having first been released at Baselworld 2011, the reference 7000R marked Patek Philippe’s first dedicated Ladies’ Minute Repeater of the modern era. For a company that made the first minute repeating wristwatch ever for a lady in 1916, this introduction was both overdue and well-regarded.

Powered by a self-winding movement with micro-rotor, its caliber R 27 PS is comprised of 342 parts and measures a very slim 5.05 mm in thickness. Winding is accomplished via a beautifully engraved micro-rotor, visible through the sapphire crystal caseback, and superbly integrated into the movement to permit an unobstructed view of the repeater’s hammers and gongs.

Housed in a hardly diminutive 33.7mm officer-style pink gold case and accompanied by an elegant ivory grené dial with applied pink gold Breguet numerals, the present example was purchased shortly after Valentine’s Day in 2012. Undoubtedly, it would have been difficult to exceed that Valentine’s Day gift in the years that followed. The present example is fresh to the market, complete with all its original accessories. Due to the difficulty of assembling such a complex timepiece, very few were made and even fewer have appeared on the secondary market; this is the second 7000R to ever appear publicly and the only one in this configuration.