Owning a Patek Philippe watch is a memorable milestone for every watch collector. Owning a Patek Philippe Reference 2523 is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that literally only a couple of individuals can claim they have had. It’s one of those extremely rare timepieces that usually remain in private collections for decades that would maybe, only so often, would change hands. What’s even more unheard of is the discovery of a previously unknown Reference 2523 to come up for auction.

And yet, this is exactly what’s happening this May in Switzerland.

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