The New Patek Philippe Nautilus 5811/1G In White Gold - HODINKEE

Here it is: The caller Patek Philippe Nautilus notation 5811/1G-001. In Patek-speak, "G" stands successful for achromatic gold, meaning the caller 5811/1G has a 41mm achromatic golden case, 1 millimeter bigger than our dearly departed alloy 5711. Other than these 2 changes – 1 of them admittedly beauteous weighty – the caller Nautilus is simply a batch similar the aged blue-dial Nautilus we bid farewell astatine the opening of 2021, with a fewer different aesthetic updates and method upgrades. And aft a little green and Tiffany Blue triumph lap, we're backmost to a acquainted (blue) face; the caller 5811/1G features a sunburst bluish dial with achromatic gradation.

But those who admit what made the archetypal Nautilus "Jumbo" ref. 3700 from 1976 truthful peculiar volition announcement immoderate subtle nods to that watch. The caller 5811/1G features a two-part case, a callback to the "monobloc" lawsuit of the Nautilus 3700. 

The 5711 ever had a modern, three-part lawsuit construction. The tricky happening astir these two-part cases is taking the question successful and retired of the lawsuit since there's nary caseback to beryllium opened. In the aged days of the 3700, this was solved via a "split stem" attack that allowed the winding stem to, well, divided isolated from the remainder of the ticker truthful that the full question could past beryllium lifted retired of the watch's beforehand side.

Patek present says it's solved this occupation with a caller strategy that enables the winding stem to beryllium pulled retired from the dial side. The caller lawsuit operation is simply a humanities wink not lone to the archetypal Jumbo, but besides to the inspiration of the Nautilus itself. After all, Gérald Genta's muse for the Nautilus plan was the porthole of a ship, the thought being you had to unfastened the "porthole" to get wrong the watch. Forty-six years later, the porthole is again the lone mode in. With this caller lawsuit construction, the 5811/1G inactive features a sapphire caseback.

The question wrong the caller achromatic golden 5811/1G is the Patek caliber 26-330 S C, the aforesaid that came wrong the past mentation of the 5711, from 2019 until 2021. Like the 5711, the 5811/1G is water-resistant to 120 meters. Finally, Patek has updated the bracelet's clasp: It's a fold-over clasp, but it features a new, lockable, accommodation strategy that allows you to easy set the bracelet size by 2 oregon 4 millimeters. 

The Nautilus 5811/1G volition retail astatine $69,785. For position (again, antithetic metals), erstwhile Patek introduced the steel, olive greenish 5711 past year, its MSRP was $34,893.

Let's beryllium honest: It's benignant of what we expected, right? Sometimes that's not a atrocious thing. Ever since Patek Philippe discontinued the 5711 past year, we've each engaged successful immoderate playful conjecture astir what mightiness beryllium next. Over the past period oregon so, speculation heated up arsenic it started to consciousness arsenic if a time similar contiguous mightiness beryllium coming soon. And astir of the informed guesses I heard – arsenic overmuch arsenic the operation "informed guesses" isn't a full contradiction successful presumption erstwhile it comes to thing Patek – came backmost to 1 imaginable reference: "5811G."

Is it thing brainsick from Patek? No, of people not. It's a subtle improvement of the Nautilus: a fewer aesthetic tweaks and immoderate method updates that marque it a somewhat amended watch. But if you expected thing else, well, possibly you're the brainsick one. 

As for the caller two-part lawsuit construction: It's surely thing Patek didn't have to do, which makes maine emotion it adjacent more. These method updates and nods to past are amusive for ticker nerds, the benignant of details that support america coming back, time aft day. 

By the way, a fewer years earlier Patek officially launched the alloy 5711 connected the Nautilus collection's 30th day successful 2006, it introduced a ticker called the ref. 3711G – a achromatic golden Jumbo – that was produced for lone 2 years (this was the past achromatic golden Nautilus to diagnostic a bracelet; the 5711G ne'er came connected a bracelet). Nowadays, the 3711G is simply a spot of a collector's item, thing of a "pre-series" to the 5711 (stay tuned time for much connected collecting the 5711). 

Now, the 50th day of the 3700 is lone a fewer years away, but earlier we commencement to rev up the speculation instrumentality erstwhile again, let's conscionable bask that we've got a caller achromatic golden Nautilus, an improvement of the aged Nautilus.

Brand: Patek Philippe
Model: Nautilus
Reference Number: 5811/1G-001

Diameter: 41mm
Thickness: 8.3mm
Case Material: White gold
Dial Color: Blue
Indexes: Applied achromatic gold
Lume: Yes
Water Resistance: 120 meters
Strap/Bracelet: White golden bracelet

Caliber: Patek 26-330 S C
Functions: Time and date
Diameter: 27mm
Thickness: 3.3mm
Power Reserve: 35-45 hours
Winding: Automatic
Frequency: 28,800 vph, with Gyromax equilibrium and silicon Spiromax equilibrium spring

Price: $69,785
Limited Edition: N/A