Patek Philippe expands its range of travel watches with a new Calatrava model equipped with the Travel Time dual time zone function.
The new calibre 31-260 PS FUS 24H self-winding movement – a concentration of technical innovations that improve performance and ease of use –comes in an elegant rose-gold case with a navy-blue dial and strap.
Among the numerous complications available in the Patek Philippe collections, the exclusive Travel Time system for the display of a second time zone has met with great success, owing to its ease of operation and excellent legibility. Patek Philippe is broadening its vast selection of Travel Time dual time zone watches with a new Calatrava model featuring an original display of local time and home time by two centre hands turning on a 24-hour circle.
To provide this function, Patek Philippe’s engineers took the 31-260 ultra-thin self-winding base calibre and added a 24-hour mechanism and a Travel Time mechanism. Visible through a transparent sapphire-crystal back, the new self-winding calibre 31-260 PS FUS 24H movement with mini-rotor in platinum makes it possible to provide a case whose elegant finesse is perfectly suited to a Calatrava model.
To preserve the sleek lines, Patek Philippe also replaced the traditional correction pushers for local time on the left-hand flank of the case with a patented correction system using the crown pulled out to the intermediate position (backwards and forwards adjustment in one-hour steps).
The fully polished rose-gold case, 42 mm in diameter, was inspired by that of the Calatrava Weekly Calendar Reference 5212A-001 launched in 2019 and is distinguished by its curved two-tier lugs.
The navy-blue dial shines with elegance and legibility, enhanced by a double railway-track scale for the hours and minutes. The 24-hour display, with its alternating Arabic numerals and hour markers and its cabochon five-minute markers, represents a total of 44 rose-gold appliques, polished together to obtain the same brilliance and applied individually by hand.
The Travel Time dual time zone is displayed by three syringe-shaped hands in rose gold, with a luminescent coating for the local hour hand and the minute hand and a pierced centre for the home hour hand. Refined finishing touches create beautiful plays of light on the dial: a circular striated centre, a circular satin-finished hour circle and a snailed small-seconds counter with a rose-gilt outline.
A navy-blue calfskin strap with a nubuck finish and contrasting cream stitching echo the colour of the dial. It is secured by a prong buckle in rose gold.
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