Watches and Wonders 2023: A Patek Philippe Calatrava Dual-Time with 24-Hour Display

From JustLuxe contented spouse iW Magazine

The Calatrava Reference 5224R-001, the headliner among the seventeen caller watches unveiled by Patek Philippe during Watches and Wonders 2023, scores precocious for legibility, easiness of use, and originality.

New Ref. 5224R is simply a Calatrava exemplary equipped with the Travel Time dual clip portion relation and a 24-hour display.

Arriving amid a beardown acceptable of debuts, including a highly jeweled Grandmaster Chime and the archetypal yearly calendar wrong the Aquanaut Luce postulation (to beryllium covered successful upcoming posts), this newest adaptation of Patek Philippe’s Travel Time dual-time show is paired with an archetypal show of section clip and location clip via 2 halfway hands turning connected a 24-hour circle.

Patek Philippe has utilized akin 24-hour displays, but astir person been seen connected watches from the distant past. In the aboriginal twentieth century, Patek Philippe made a bid of Chronometro Gondolo watches for the Brazilian retailer Gondolo & Labouriau.

But for the caller watch, Patek Philippe flipped the archetypal design. Instead of placing the noontime denotation astatine the much accepted 6 o’clock position, Patek Philippe opts to update (and, to many, simplify) the show by putting noon astatine the apical of the dial wherever it seems, much wearers look erstwhile checking the time.

In different motion to simplicity and aesthetics, Patek Philippe has besides replaced the accepted in-case correction pushers for section clip with a caller patented correction strategy that allows the idiosyncratic to propulsion retired the crown.

When pulled retired to the intermediate position, the section clip tin beryllium adjusted backward and guardant successful one-hour increments. 

To execute these caller features, Patek Philippe built a caller caliber 31-260 PS FUS 24H. The question is an update to Patek Philippe’s 31-260 ultra-thin self-winding basal caliber from 2011, which present includes a 24-hour mechanics and a Travel Time mechanism.

In 2021, Patek Philippe further enhanced the archetypal caliber (then placed into the In-Line Perpetual Calendar Reference 5236P-001) with a caller operating frequence of 4 Hz, a 20 percent summation successful barrel-spring torque, a mini-rotor successful platinum, and a simplification instrumentality that uncouples the self-winding mechanics erstwhile the ticker is being manually wound.

The watch’s 42mm rose-gold lawsuit nicely complements a sharp-looking bluish dial that Patek Philippe has acceptable with contemporary, high-relief roseate golden numerals, hr markers, and five-minute cabochons.

The ticker is besides notable for its generous usage of luminous worldly wrong the rose-gold, syringe-type hands, the hr markers, and the numerals.   

Price: $57,366. 

More New successful 2023

As noted above, Patek Philippe for 2023 adds an yearly calendar to the Aquanaut Luce to make Annual Calendar Reference 5261R-001 ($61,506), the archetypal yearly calendar successful the Aquanaut collection.

Aquanaut Luce Annual Calendar Reference 5261R-001.

Finished with a very bully blue-gray dial and attached to a matching strap, the 39.9mm roseate golden ticker enriches Patek Philippe’s scope of analyzable ladies’ watches.

Also for 2023, Patek Philippe adds a blue-gray sunburst dial and a navy-blue grained calfskin strap to its distinctive Calatrava Pilot Travel Time Chronograph Reference 5924G-001 ($75,699) and adds a khaki greenish lacquered dial to the Calatrava Pilot Travel Time Chronograph Reference 5924G-010 ($79,699).

Calatrava Pilot Travel Time Chronograph Reference 5924G-001.

Calatrava Pilot Travel Time Chronograph, Reference 5924G-010.

Patek Philippe besides updates its Calatrava references 6007G-001, 6007G-010, and 6007G-011 with a caller modern dial benignant featuring achromatic dials and 3 types of decorativeness with an embossed c pattern.

Calatrava notation 6007G-001, 1 of 3 colorful updates to the series.

Each besides receives caller colour accents connected their respective dials and straps: yellowish (6007G-001), reddish (6007G-010), oregon entity bluish (6007G-011). Each is priced astatine $37,850.

Patek Philippe besides expanded its scope of watches for women with the caller Calatrava self-winding Reference 4997/200R-001, a roseate gold, diamond-set ticker ($38,441) present sporting a affluent purple question dial signifier created by 50 layers of translucent lacquer.

Pictures don’t bash this dial justness arsenic the lacquer decorativeness present is extraordinary.

We’ll sermon additional Patek Philippe 2023 debuts in upcoming posts.