Ultra Simple and Super Legibility – Patek Philippe Regulator with Annual Calendar Ref. 5235
It seems it’s not a challenging task for Patek Philippe to create a regulator watch with an annual calendar complication, while few brand can successfully accomplish the mission or majority of these watches creations tend to look and sport bloated because the complex annual calendar complication makes it quite hard for designers to grasp the sleek layout. Anyhow, Patek Philippe makes it and the brand enlivens the high-end device in the ultra simple and elegant timepiece well-known with the super legibility.
The new Patek Philippe Regulator with Annual Calendar (Ref. 5235) watch, the first automatic watch inspired from micro-rotor design, is undoubtedly an ideal demonstration of the fact. And you won’t doubt the truth after you’re informed that it combines two complications in a single piece! Like many other Patek Philippe watches, the watch is bound to be the ultimate subject for case studies on various courses of industrial design.
Simple yet classic sense is the theme Patek Philippe designers always insist in designing the timepieces creations, and the new Patek Philippe Regulator with Annual Calendar watch flaunts an ultra simple exterior as expected. Hour and second sub-dials are at 12 and 6 o’clock respectively, and between 10 and 11, 1 and 3 hours, there are the day of week and month indicators respectively, while its date aperture is placed inside the subsidiary second indicator at the 6 o’clock position. A positioned minute hand sweeps effortlessly along the blue transfer printed minute track. Besides what mentioned above, nothing spare is found, indeed, the Patek Philippe logo at 3 o’clock (if it should be counted)!
40.5mm in diameter, and less than 11mm in height, it’s the case inside which there is equipped with a well-known PP Cal. 240 automatic movement! Unbelievable, isn’t it? Of course, Patek Philippe engineers had to rework the movement to reduce the friction with the case yet keep or increase the energy efficiency of the caliber at the same time. And it’s definitely the high level rework on the movement that makes the item an ultimate rarity! I have no idea what the exact price of this understated beauty is, but I’m sure that it flaunts at least €20,000!








