PATEK PHILIPPE
REF. 5320G-001
Most desirable novelty from Patek Philippe’s 2017 release, the reference 5320G-001 Perpetual Calendar.
For those who find vintage watches too small this piece is a reincarnation inspired by a few 1940s/50s models and especially by the unique reference 1591 • it has a 40mm complex case with a special stepped lug concept at 12 o’clock two apertures for the day and month, a moonphase display with date by hand at six o’clock as well as the day/night indicator and leap year counter • We also can’t miss those stylish luminous syringe hands.
The lovely ivory cream lacquered dial is the highlight as it looks like its has aged a bit, a very first for the brand.
You can also admire the new automatic movement that uses the new Caliber 324SQ movement within which is also tamped with the Patek Philippe seal through the sapphire case-back, you can wear the elegant leather bracelet and adjust the deployant buckle around your wrist.
Best known for their Grand Complications watches Patek Philippe masters the “Haute Horlogerie” and are arguably the best in the industry.
In 1989, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the manufacture, Patek Philippe developed what is one of the most complicated portable timepiece in the world: the Calibre 89 with 33 complications but half a century ago in 1932 they had built the “Henry Graves Supercomplication” which had at that time 24 complications, including Westminster chimes, a perpetual calendar, sunrise and sunset times, and a celestial map of New York as seen from Graves’s apartment on Fifth Avenue.
For decades they did held the title of the most complicated watches built. Mastering their craft they perpetuated the skills and traditions to deliver in their current collection pieces of the highest quality.
