Fresh from the showcase here at SwissWatchExpo. We're talking about the Patek Philippe World Time.
It's one of my favorite watches. We've talked before about various GMT watches, but this
just takes everything to a whole new level. You might recall that, in the 1800s, the 19th century
that most cities used to set their own town clock by when the sun was at its Zenith, that it would
be right at the top at noon, they would set it by that. So you would have say a situation where in
Boston at, 12:23, it would be 12 noon in New York. So they, once the train travel started
and trains would leave one city and arrive in another, they would arrive at the local time.
It was confusing to everyone. So there was a big conference that was put together to set up
a system where the world could kind of make sense of all the time differences around the world.
And they came up with a system where they divided the world into 24 different meridians.
Each one is a one hour jump from the one before it, the 24 time zones. And the center one is
the one that runs through Greenwich and London. That is the GMT. That's the Greenwich Meantime,
that's where that term comes from. So now we have a system that's very reliable,
uh, here in Atlanta, for example, we're GMT minus five. So we're always five hours behind London or
behind London. And, uh, some of the countries though, kind of play with that. For example, in
China, where it spans eight different times zones, they use one time through the entire country,
and I'm sure that's extremely confusing in some places it's going to be dark
almost all day, all morning, and then light all night. But they deal with it.
Other places like, for example, notoriously in India, they used to have two different time zones.
They had Bombay time and Calcutta time, but they eventually decided because they were right between
the two times zones that they wanted one halfway between time zone for their whole country. So
that's the way India works right now. They're on a half hour time zone. Uh, but the entire country
is on one, one time zone. So the challenge became if you're someone who does business,
if you travel a lot, if you need to communicate with people in another time zone, it'd be nice
to be able to know what time it is in more than one place at once. So most GMT watches show the
main times zone where you are. And one other times on three use of a GMT hand in the 1930s,
a famous watch maker, not to be confused with Louis Cartier of the Cartier watch company.
His name is Louis Cottier C O T T I E R invented a system to show 24 different time zones at the
same time. And in the 1950s, he helped Patek Phillipe come out with the world time, watch
one of those original ones, by the way, let's see it's a reference number 25, 23 recently
sold for about $9 million. So I don't think we're going to be carrying those anytime soon,
but in 2000 Patek Phillipe revamped the world time line. And they came out with the 5110,
which is a 37 millimeter watch. And that's this one right here on the left.
It's a really beautiful watch. It has a very, very thin movement. When you think about everything
that this movement does, as you push the button here and you can advance through the time zones,
it rotates a inner ring and an outer ring, as well as the hour hand of the watch.
And so at any moment, you can read anywhere on the watch, what the time is in any other time
zone. Now these are the 24 main time zones. There are 37 times zones. I understand. So
just be an understanding if you were in one of those off times zones, you would just need to make
your own mental calculation. But these are the 24 main times zones. Most of the main cities in
the world are represented and it's an incredible movement. Um, the dial is gorgeous on this one.
The hour hand is a traditional looking our hand compared to the later model,
the center of the dial as a dark blue guilloche finish.
And the case on this one is in platinum. The reference number on it is a 5110 P indicating
it's a platinum watch. When you look at the side of it, the lugs are really beautiful.
They're curved. And, just aesthetically, even if you never used the world time function,
this is just one of the most beautiful watches ever. It has the exhibition case back. So you
can see that 22 karat gold rotor. The movement of all of these watches as the in-house caliber 240,
which was developed for the world time. Watch a few years later in 2006, they launched the 51 30,
which increased the size to a more modern 39 and a half millimeter. You can see that between 37
and 39 and a half, you could definitely see the difference when the watches are side-by-side on
your wrist. It's probably not going to be as drastic of a difference, but they really
changed the hour hand. It's a very distinct from the minute hand on this one, the center dial,
instead of the dial, instead of being guilloche, it's now an engine turned radial sunburst.
It's really beautiful, same kind of case with the curved lugs, same exhibition case back with
the same 240 movement with the two 22 carat micro rotor, the same platinum deployant buckle with the
Pedic Felipe seal on it. It's really beautiful deployment buckle.
So those are the main two choices. If you're going to get a world time, watch as a man,
but if you want to really step things up, you're probably wondering about this one down here.
This one is a 36 millimeter, just a little bit smaller than the 37. Patek Phillipe seems to think
this is exclusively a ladies' watch, but I could definitely see a lot of men wearing it as a really
dressy world time watch. But of course, it's got the Patek Philippe diamonds on it. They use
exquisite diamonds that are internally flawless. They're D through G color, they're full cut.
They are absolutely gorgeous. I hope you can say the simulation there in the video. But
they began revamped the center of the dial. It's a silvered center dial on this model.
The function is exactly the same, the same two 40 movement with the exhibition case back. But look
at the buckle on this one. Even the buckle is completely diamond set, really gorgeous, and we
have all of these three in stock at the same time. And you certainly can give us a call and we'll be
happy to go over any kinds of differences between them. We'll be happy to help you get the checkout
done. If you have any questions about the Patek Philippe World Time, please give us a call. We're
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