WITH THE RELEASE OF THE NEW REF. 5270P-001, PATEK PHILIPPE CONTINUES TO WRITE AN IMPORTANT CHAPTER IN HOROLOGICAL HISTORY.
Its list of famous fans include rock stars Eric Clapton and John Lennon, as well as royalty (Egypt’s King Farouk, Romania’s King Michael). It has attained record-breaking prices at auction – a platinum-cased edition belonging to Clapton went under the hammer for 3.44 million Swiss francs (S$4.69 million) in 2012. We are talking, of course, about Patek Philippe’s perpetual calendar chronograph, a family of watches that proves, definitively, that all watch complications are not created equal.
In the realm of haute horlogerie, the perpetual calendar – with its ability to automatically keep track of differing month lengths and leap years – is one of the most desirable high complications. Combine it with the chronograph, one of the world’s most popular functions, and you get the perpetual calendar chronograph – the most sought-after and collectible of which are made by Patek Philippe. The Genevan manufacture has dominated this niche since 1941, when it created the first serially produced perpetual calendar chronograph, Ref. 1518.
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