Fresh from the Showcase at SwissWatchExpo, and this new arrival we've got is the ultimate
jetsetters watch and with a little added flair to it as well. So let's check it out.
Today, talking about the Patek Philippe World Time or specifically the reference 7130,
which is a really interesting one for a lot of reasons. But first get into a little bit
about world time watches. For those of you who aren't familiar, this is a specific complication
that actually shows a variety of cities in all 24 time zones on the dial of the watch.
So think of this as a severely beefed up GMT, whereas the GMT is going to show you
one additional time zone of your own setting. A world timer complication can
literally show you any time zone you might want to know at a glance. So this is, as I said before,
the ultimate jet setters watch, if you were constantly either traveling between time zones or
managing business across multiple time zones, this is what this watch was originally meant to do.
The world time complication was invented in 1953. So the GMT had been around for a while.
Watch aficionados will know it was invented by Louis Cottier who was an independent watchmaker
in Switzerland, I believe while potentially was not the first manufacturer to make the
world timer watch, they did innovate the quick set world timer watch, which is really interesting.
It'll allow you to cycle through all of the various cities that are on the dial at the single
push of a button. It is arguably the most popular watch in their complications series. It's a very
practical and beautiful complication at that. And it's made by a variety of different brands,
but I'm not sure if anyone does it better than protect the leaf. And this watch is going to be
a great reason why this, the reference 7130 is a 36 millimeter watch, which is pretty interesting.
The first thing is when researching this watch, I've learned that Patek Philippe does consider
this the women's version of the world timer. I believe they make a 39 and a 40 millimeter
version for men across multiple generations. People familiar with the Calatrava will know
36 millimeters is a man sized Calatrava. This is a much more modern watch and Patek
Philippe definitely modernized their sort of classification of these because at 36 millimeters,
I think it's very large for a lady's watch might even venture into unisex territory,
but this does have a lot of feminine features to it as well. And it would make an incredibly
elegant ladies watch, especially if you like a little larger case diameter here.
The first thing that you'll notice. And it's pretty unusual to see one like this,
but we have a full factory set Patek Philippe diamond bezel around here.
This makes it very unique amongst world timer watches. I often don't see them
with diamonds at all. And I do think it blends wonderfully with with all
the different sort of tiers of patterns you get with this dial as you'll see.
On the inside, we have a beautiful sort of cream off-white color guilloche pattern.
This is all done by hand as all Patek Philippe dials are. A lot of guilloche dials out there.
This watch is an incredibly, incredibly elegant dial and it starts right here in the center.
We do have these beautiful looking rose gold hands and markers around the inside here. And of course,
what makes this watch what it is is the chapter ring on the outside specifically two of them the
inner is going to have a 24 hour scale with all of the, you know, 24 hours in a day on GMT time.
And then we'll have the variety of marker cities on the outside each representing its own time
zone. I find this very interesting of itself. You'll see a lot of really iconic cities with
their own time zones here in New York, Paris, Moscow. What have you, as well as a couple of
more obscure ones, because they're really the only city of any note in their time zone. So we've got
a Midway Island, Anchorage, Alaska looks like a, was a couple others here that I'm just taking at a
glance Karachi Pakistan. You might not have a lot of business done in those particular time zones,
just for the sheer numbers of people living there. But you do have a reference for every single
time zone and a city for time, each time zone around there, it's in a beautiful brown color,
which I think is a really interesting look against what is an 18 karat white gold case.
I don't often see a lot of brown dials on white gold, but this one really works. I think it's a
really beautiful color and it does offset great against sort of the sharpness of the white gold
and of course the diamonds as well. And of course the innovation that Patek Philippe made to
the world timer watch here is this quick set button here that will allow you to cycle
through the date and each individual reference city in real time. So this is an excellent,
excellent, and very practical type of complication. Especially if again,
you are possibly managing different issues in more than two times zones at a time.
Otherwise you would just have a GMT watch. Of course, it wouldn't be a Patek Philippe
if we didn't go over this gorgeous looking movement in the back, this is an automatic,
which I think is pretty vital considering the practicality of this world timer complication.
We do have some beautiful plating and engraving on that here. And of course this beautiful looking
micro rotor, this one in 18 karat yellow gold. So you get a very different look by turning this
case around and looking at the back as well as the beautiful escapement and the cote de geneve
pattern behind this as well? It really is a beautiful watch and it's kind of rare to see
a lady's watch with this much attention to the movement that they're going to actually display
on the back. And so I think this is obviously the watch for someone who is a huge fan of
horology as anyone who would be spending this much money on a Patek Philippe almost certainly is,
but it is a fantastic ladies watch. A fantastic modern ladies watch considering the size
and definitely one for someone who is a true fan of watchmaking and who really wants a, what might
be the absolute cornerstone of any fine ladies watch collection. We've got a variety of watches,
including a lot of them less complicated than this. So if the protect Felipe
with the factory diamond bezel might be a little intimidating. I can assure you. we have a lot of
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