Since its debut in 1999 as Patek Philippe’s first assortment created particularly for ladies, Twenty~4 has been a stable and regular hit. Taking cues from Deco design with its two-tiered rectangular case accentuated with glowing strains of brilliant-cut diamonds operating down its sides, the fashion — as its identify implies — will be dressed up or down to maneuver seamlessly from day to night.
However how do you retain a traditional trying contemporary and well timed over greater than 20 years? With a splash of shade, after all.
Patek Philippe’s newest Twenty~4 options an attention-grabbing, olive-green sunburst dial. It’s appointed with the gathering’s signature Arabic numerals at 12 and 6, paired with trapezoidal hour markers and rounded baton-style palms. The edges of the case are set with 36 Prime Wesselton diamonds, weighing in at almost a half-carat. And due to Patek’s superaccurate Caliber E 15 quartz motion, you don’t want to provide a thought to setting or winding. Simply slip it on, and depart everybody in your wake resentful.
Branching out from ever-popular blue dials, luxurious watch designers across the globe have additionally gone inexperienced up to now yr or two. Patek is not any exception: The model additionally selected inexperienced to switch blue because it phased out its extremely coveted Ref. 5711 Nautilus grail watch final yr (a sufferer of its personal success).
And inexperienced is the colour of alternative for the model’s newest Ref. 7130R World Time. The middle of its dial is fantastically engraved with a hand-guilloched previous basket-weave motif, flaunting the home’s experience in what it calls “uncommon handcrafts.”
Branching out from ever-popular blue dials, luxurious watch designers across the globe have additionally gone inexperienced up to now yr or two.
Patek’s jewelers framed it with 62 brilliant-cut diamonds, then set one other 27 sparklers on the prong buckle of its shiny, forest calfskin strap. (Launched in 2011 as a world-timer for ladies, the 7130 is powered by Patek’s ultrathin, self-winding Caliber 240 HU motion incorporating a metropolis disk and a 24-hour disk — divided into day/evening zones by shade and solar/moon symbols — to concurrently show the time in all 24 of the world’s main time zones, therefore the style’s identify.)
However inexperienced is not only for ladies’s watches. This yr, Patek Philippe added a brand new Annual Calendar Ref. 5205 in rose gold with a deep-olive dial, embellished with a radiant sunburst motif and a gradient black periphery. Apertures exhibiting the day, date and month are organized in an arc on the high of the dial, whereas a sapphire crystal caseback reveals the self-winding Caliber 324 S QA LU 24H (outfitted with the model’s patented annual-calendar mechanism that solely must be manually adjusted as soon as per yr, on the finish of February).
Even Patek Philippe’s legendary Grand Complication Ref. 5270 perpetual calendar chronograph seems to be contemporary in inexperienced this yr, with a gleaming polished platinum case paired with a wealthy, lacquered emerald dial that darkens across the edges.
The dial format harmoniously arranges the 30-minute chronograph counter and seconds subdial at 3 o’clock and 9 o’clock with the perpetual calendar shows — day and month in apertures on the high, with the date indicated by a hand surrounding a moon part show at 6 o’clock.
On the decrease left and proper, apertures show the day/evening indication and the leap-year cycle. Showcased by the clear sapphire crystal caseback, the manually wound Caliber CH 29-535 PS Q is a technical tour de drive to behold, with six patented improvements for the chronograph and its exceptionally skinny calendar mechanism.
We’re green-lighting all of them.
Photographer: Arthur Belebeau; Prop Stylist: Miako Katoh; Stylist: Serena French;Mannequin: Melissa Jackson at Carmen Hand Fashions; Manicurist: Kayo Higuchi at Bryan Bantry
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