The name Patek Philippe is among the most powerful in the entire watch industry. It is synonymous with class, conservatism, high auction values, price legitimacy, and some of the best looking traditional watches now, or ever. Patek Philippe remains an independent company whose secrets and plans are tightly guarded, and its [...]
A seminal world timer updated for 2019, the Patek Philippe World Time Ref. 5231J is a horological work of art that is nearly impossible to get.The Patek Philippe World Time Ref. 5231J is new for 2019, sitting alongside the existing 5231 that comes in a platinum case with that matching platinum beads-of-rice bracelet that defin [...]
Exciting times await fans of Patek Philippe, thanks to the announcement of the next?Watch Art Grand Exhibition to be held by the brand. After successful shows in Dubai in 2012, Munich in 2013, London in 2015, and New York in 2017, Patek Philippe will hit the road once more and head to Si [...]
Theres been a lot said about the new Patek Philippe Ref. 5212A Calatrava Weekly Calendar watch, mostly about the new eponymous complication, that its a new steel model, and of course, that handwritten font used on the dial. At this point, Ive spent years in watch media and handled or spent time with a [...]
For Baselworld 2019, Patek Philippe is discontinuing their lovely, yet slightly reflective, 5170P chronograph and replacing it with this new 5172G model. It runs on the same movement as its predecessor, but Patek has chosen to increase the case size from 39mm to 41mm. Additionally, new touches like rounded chronograph push [...]
You knew I couldnt ignore this one, as an authenticated Patek Philippe Aquanaut fanboy. (Yes, Im obvious.) Green is definitely the new blue, and this new Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5168G Khaki Green Jumbo White Gold watch is ~$40,000 of cant touch this. Its important to say that Patek isnt hopping on a [...]
New for 2019 is the Patek Philippe 5212A Calatrava Weekly Calendar watch, which debuts a new calendar function that displays the week number in addition to the day of the week. The watch comes in a steel case, which is always of note when we are talking about Patek Philippe. Its another quirky Calatrava wat [...]
With the release of the new Patek Philippe ref. 5520P-001 Alarm Travel Time watch, one of the industrys shining lights has taken an unusually bold aesthetic step. In September last year, we reviewed the?Patek Philippe Calatrava Pilot Travel Time Ref. 5524R watch, which features twin pushers on the left-hand side of the case. Those pusher [...]
Patek Philippe introduced its main ladies collection, the Twenty-4, 19 years ago in 1999. At the time, the mechanical revolution was just beginning to re-emerge after two decades of quartz dominance that killed most of Switzerlands smaller mechanical watchmakers. Most ladies watches were still quartz, and the manchette bracelet-style w [...]
When the first Calatrava Pilot Travel Time Ref. 5524G was announced at Baselworld in 2015, to say that the watch world was shocked would be an understatement. Clearly, it was unlike anything else that Patek Philippe made and even after learning that Patek did indeed make pilots watches for the military way back in the 30s, I still cant wra [...]
Patek Philippe introduced its first in-house integrated chronograph Caliber CH 29-535 PS in a ladies watch, the Ref. 7071, in 2009. The movement appeared in a mens watch the following year, again in 2012 as the base for a split-seconds chronograph with a perpetual calendar, and in 2015 as a split-seconds without the perpetual calendar. But the moveme [...]
The premise of my review of the famed Patek Philippe Nautilus 5711 Blue watch (reference 5711/1A-010) focuses on one simple question: What makes this steel sports lifestyle watch, with all of its love handles, persistently in high demand? To further illustrate my point, right before the publication of this review, Patek Philippe decided to raise the price [...]
Think perpetual calendar chronograph watches and you are probably also thinking about Patek Philippe. No other complication is more synonymous with the brand than the perpetual calendar chronograph. The latest perpetual calendar chronograph watch, the Reference 5270, was introduced by Patek Philippe in 2011. Since its launch, we have se [...]
At Baselworld 2018 Patek Philippe released the first chronograph Aquanaut, a fitting complication for the sportiest line from Patek. It was introduced 21 years ago in 1997 as an entry to the brand less expensive than the Nautilus and less stuffy than the simpler Calatrava models. This new Patek Philippe Aquanaut Chronograph Ref. 5968A is a very cool loo [...]
Back in 2014,?Patek Philippe announced that the Chronograph Annual Calendar 5960 watch would be newly available in steel, in a move that makes sense for a brand that wants to appeal to a younger customer base in an already self-selective buyers market. Not particularly for pricing concerns, but precious metals make it pretty much impossible for a wa [...]
Obviously, there are many ways the new-for-2017 Patek Philippe Calatrava 5180/1R could be described. The most convenient way would be an extensive use of fawning?superlatives-it is, after all, a full-gold, skeletonized Patek Philippe. I look at it and think not that, but more that it is a preposterous dinosaur of a watch, a T-Rex rocking Mr. Ts gold chains [...]
The Patek Philippe Calatrava line of time-only watches has often been unfortunately relegated to live in the shadow cast by the brands more complicated pieces like their perpetual calendars or their instantly recognizable sport watch models in the Nautilus and Aquanaut. Honestly, its understandable since demure 3-hand time only watches have been a cornerstone of the [...]
It might be reasonable to assume that the watch collector is a relatively recent breed of timepiece consumer. These are the types of people who make it a point to own a variety of watches, often focusing on the emotional versus the mere practical utility of each. The watch collectors of today are indeed a w [...]
Patek Philippe ladies minute repeater, Ref. 7000/250, New York Special Edition.Patek Philippes Art of Watches Grand Exhibition, which runs at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City until July 23, 2017 (see our report and photos from the event here), not only demonstrates its impressive heritage as a watchmaking company, but a [...]
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