Patek Philippe Reference 5235/50R-001 Annual Calendar With Regulator-Style Display: Far From ...

The Patek Philippe Reference 5235/50R-001 annual calendar with regulator-style display was my favorite watch of Baselworld 2019 The significance of Patek Philippe Reference 5235/50R's Caliber 31-260 REG QA In developing the movement for Reference 5235, Patek Philippe decided against using its ultra-thin Caliber 240 as a base.

As Martin Green pointed out in Annual Calendars Are Goldilocks Complications: Not Too Hot, Not Too Cold, Just Right, the annual calendar is a relatively recent invention by Patek Philippe, with the first wristwatch ever featuring the new complication being the brand's Reference 5035 in 1996 It's unique to the Reference 5235/50R Unusually for a Patek Philippe, it features stop seconds, generally referred to as hacking seconds, a feature befitting its regulator nature by stopping the balance when the crown is pulled out to set or adjust the time precisely.

There simply is no other Patek Philippe like Reference 5235, and there is no other movement like Caliber 31-260 That makes this watch paradoxical because it is a variation of a reference that has called the Patek Philippe catalog its home for the past eight years: to me it is still so new, so novel, so unlike what Patek Philippe has been doing in the past, that even an update to case material and dial color merits all the excitement of a brand-new release If independently owned high horology with a flair for the artistic and more than a hint of the technical, blending tradition with modernity, is the firewood that burns your passion for watches, then I highly recommend the Patek Philippe Reference 5235/50R annual calendar with regulator-style display. Source