Patek Philippe has combined annual calendar and travel time complications in the same movement for the first time, and loaded it into a Calatrava that has been given a modern makeover for a younger audience.
The Patek Philippe Ref. 5326G-001 Annual Calendar Travel Time displays day, date and month along with a second time zone, and only needs its date corrected once per year.
Its slim new Calatrava case is guilloched with a hobnail pattern around its edge and has a charcoal grey vintage dial inspired by the look of old photo cameras.
It retails for £59,200, including tax.
The same case design and styling is also used for a three-hander with date, the Ref. 5226G-001 Calatrava powered by the self-winding caliber 26-330 S C movement.
This watch is priced at £30,060, including tax.
Elsewhere in the 2022 line up from Patek Philippe is a Ref. 5320G-011 Perpetual Calendar with a new opaline rose gilt dial.
Patek Philippe has used the same dial treatment for a classic Ref. 5172G-010 Men’s Chronograph inspired by models from the 1940s and 1950s models.
Is the reader to assume the price of the watch is simply out of range for the average person or have I overlooked it somewhere in the story?
The asphalt-like finish looks nice. But it could potentially be one of those watches that people don’t seem to like, then buy for $100,000 ten years from now.