WorG: 40mm Patek chrono...

[Watch Carefully]

Oh my. I can image these will be selling for millions at Antiquorum auctions ca. the year 2062.



Movement is the Swiss hand-wind Patek in-house caliber CHR29-535 PSQ with hours, minutes, seconds,
perpetual calendar (day, date, month, leap year), day/night indication, moon phases and split-seconds chronograph.

Posted on TZ by Jorge.

[BrandonS]

Lovely. Borderline "meh", but lovely. Wind.

[FuzzyB]

What are the case warts near the lugs? I see 5 of them at 4, 30, 31, 52, and 57 seconds. I thought they were reflections at first, but some of them clearly project from the case.

My personal issue is the upside down moonphase. For some reason, my brain tells me that the moonphase window should show the top of the moonphase wheel and not the bottom. I know it's illogical, but it would keep me from buying a watch that had a display like that. Not that I'm in the market for a Patek at the moment...

[TylerEOT]

They're pushers for day, date, moonphase, year, etc.

[russell]

If it didn't say Patek on the dial, it wouldn't get past "meh".

I still say meh. Yes, technically, I am sure it is wonderful and of course, it's beautifully executed but to me, it looks like every other Patek which are, well, a big herd of "meh".

Not my flavor.

Grind.

[FuzzyB]

But why did they make them stand out so much and in such an asymmetric pattern? I would expect better from them.

[JunMel]

They already did their best putting all of the functions as symmetric as possible on the dial and I think that's a good job for them. In so doing, the pushers must be placed in the "wrong" locations just to give way to the levers and wheels already crammed under the dial.

In 1972 I was so amused at a Fulton annual calendar moonphase manual wind watch, with most of the functions of the Patek-Chrono, except for the chronograph mechanism. My father spent nearly the whole day working on it. It was devoid of the chronograph mechanism and some of the levers required to adjust the calendar dials and the moonphase are placed on the other side of the movement and not under the dial. The pushers for the Fulton looked symmetrically placed but if you measure them actually, they are not. Form follows function most of the time.

[TylerEOT]

I'd love to take that one for a spin. I imagine winding that crown would be a high point of your morning. At 40mm, I'll bet it's a lot of watch. AND a great deal of money.

[kurt48]

I sold my #5020 in Rose Gold almost ten years ago for 5X what I
paid for it. Actually I traded it to Paul Duggan for a Lange Double-Split and put a significant amount of cash in my pocket.

Hard to go wrong with any 'complicated' Patek. It seems the more unpopular they were initially (like the #5020) the more they are worth later because of the small numbers that were produced.

Those were the days ............

Kurt

#5020

[FuzzyB]

Now that one is impressive looking! Beautiful case and nicely matched hands and numerals. Plus no unsightly case warts for the pushers.