The flagship from Patek Philippe is the World Time
Flyback chronograph. We'll go over it next. It's SwissWatchExpo. Fresh from the Showcase.
It's interesting. What Patek Philippe, normally, when you're collecting Patek Philippe watches, you
have to sort of choose which function you want. They either have chronographs or they have world
times, or they have various complications that are available at annual calendars, moonphases,
but they rarely overlap these. And it's interesting because, to me,
sort of the standard complication of a date on a watch is something that you just come to expect.
A lot of watches don't have them though. The Rolex Daytona does not have a date.
And the watch we're about to talk about does not have a date on it. I think that that's one
thing that really helps simplify a dial that could become cluttered. When you look at these watches,
the reference 5930 from Patek Philippe, and this is a watch that came out in 2016.
It's interesting because Patek Philippe, you might not realize it. They didn't do a fully
in-house chronograph movement until 2006. So just 10 years later, here they came out with this one,
which to me, this one is, you know, it earns its right as being considered the flagship
complication from Patek Philippe. The 5930 incorporates a flyback chronograph as well as
the world time function. So we've talked about the world time here before, instead of just showing
one additional timezone, like a GMT watch, you see all 24 main timezones displayed at the same time.
So, as you travel, you simply push the travel button here and it changes the time on your main
clock, but it also rotates which city is at 12 o'clock, that's your sort of home reference city.
And I just moved it from New York to La Paz. And so it went from 9:15 AM to 10:15 AM.
But as you read around the edge, you can see the day and the night indicator
and all the 24 main cities that are in the 24 main time zones at the same time. So,
it's an amazing function and really handy. It's really sort of a travel computer, a time computer
built into the watch so that it does all the thinking for you. All you have to do is push
the button and change timezones as you travel. And it'll sort everything else out. The chronograph
function on this one is a flyback chronograph, which I love it's a vertical clutch. So you could
run it all the time, which is great because there's no running seconds hand on this watch
to get in the way. And that's one reason that you can run it all the time and it does not
cause any sort of excessive wear to the gear train or to the movement itself.
But when you start here as the second hand comes around, you'll see the minutes counter at 6. There
are no hours counter on this watch either. So that sort of simplifies it a little bit from,
again, what could become a complicated-looking dial, but you can either stop to record your time
with the top pusher or while it's going. Let's just say your horse, your car, whatever it is,
finishes a lap, and you want to start it without losing any time you just go ahead and restart with
the bottom pusher and it just snaps back to zero and keeps going. So you don't lose that second or
two. It might take you to stop and reset and then restart again. So it's an incredible movement. And
the case on this watch is just beautiful. It's 18-carat white gold, which it really since 2006
has been gray gold at Patek Philippe, which is a great alloy because it doesn't require
any kind of top coating with rhodium or any other metal to make it really, really white.
And it's, so it's the same color all the way through. If you were to get a scratch,
it's the same color underneath. The case itself, I find a lot more
sort of straight and angular, not as curved as the 5110 or the 5130 world times that we've
talked about here before. It's an interesting case because it has a sort of a conical bezel,
and then the crystal sits up above the level of the bezel. The lugs are attached. They're
not, you know, formed in one block like you say on say a Rolex Day-Date.
And I think these extra lines and angles give it a really sophisticated look. The pushers here
are the Lawson shape that was very popular in the late '40s early '50s. So it's sort of a throwback
vintage look on those. Of course, it has the Patek Philippe Calatrava seal on the crown.
The exhibition caseback really shows you that beautiful movement. It's the CH 28520 movement.
And, of course, it has the Patek Philippe seal. So every screw-head is polished and chamfered and
beveled and has all the Côtes de Genève decoration and all the attention to detail you would expect.
The 18-carat white gold deployment buckle of course has the Calatrava seal on it as well.
And the dial, I kind of saved the dial for last, because
the dial on those other world time watches, the 5110 and 5130, are the things that are
a little bit controversial, a little divisive of whether people like them or don't like them.
Patek Philippe has reverted to straight hands on this one. So they got away from the really unusual
I hand that we saw in one of those other watches, the center of the dial is not a contrasting
color. It's blue, and it has this beautiful pattern that is the guilloche engraved into it.
And it has silver and white, which these color combinations of silver, white, and blue with the
white gold just really sets it off. And then you have a beautiful strap there to just finish out. I
mean, it's like the icing on the cake. But to me, this is probably the most beautiful dial. I know
I keep saying that about other watches as well, but this one really takes the cake for me. It is a
dial that is gorgeous. It's just casual enough with the blue accents that you could really get
a lot of wear out of it. It is water-resistant and has sapphire crystals front and back.
So it's very practical to wear all the time. But you could really dress it up as well and wear it
with a suit. To me, this would be my go-to watch. If I had this one, I would probably
end up giving it the most wrist time of anything in my collection.
I can't imagine picking something else up really if I had this one. So I think that this one would
be perfectly at home on your wrist. Hope that you give us a call and see if it's still in stock.
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