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It’s just the date
Patek’s running equation hands have a little sun on the end. Terrible picture of 111’505 attached.
btw you can do equation watches without a QP, or any calendar at all actually, those are pretty crude though. 
Patek 97975 from the 20's
Any chance that extra gold hand is Equation of Time Marchante? It's not mounted on the smallest pivot like a sweep second usually is, and the Watch is a perpetual calendar, which is a prerequisite for equation of time, but I can't find anything reliable t...
All I see by way of gold hands are…
-Day of week (top subdial) -Month (bottom subdial) -Date (centre, with the hour and minute hands) (and then the seconds at 9 o’clock and the hour and minute hands, which are all blued; and the moonphase at 3 o’clock.) Not sure where there would be an equa...
It’s just the date
Patek’s running equation hands have a little sun on the end. Terrible picture of 111’505 attached. btw you can do equation watches without a QP, or any calendar at all actually, those are pretty crude though. ...
No, but it's basically the same as Packard's astronomical watch but without the starchart and repeater
That one you should be able to find more about online. Both are pictured in Banbery's book
An interesting article on this reference
was written by Wei Koh (follow the link to read it). The third center hand is indeed a date pointer.