Patek Philippe has made world time watches since the 1930s, built on the mechanism the Swiss watchmaker Louis Cottier devised in 1931 to show all 24 zones on a single dial. A city ring names one place per zone, a 24 hour ring inside it separates day from night, and the central hands read the time for whichever city sits at 12. A single pusher at 10 o'clock selects the city and its time zone. The family today runs from time only models at 36 mm through the 5330G, which indexes the date to local time, to the 5935A flyback chronograph in steel.
How you know it
- city ring, one name per zone
- 24 hour ring for day and night
- single pusher at 10 o'clock
- hand guilloched dial centre
Sizes in the family
36 mm to 40 mm, with the flyback chronograph at 41 mm
Who it suits
For the buyer who crosses time zones often and wants all of them readable on the dial rather than counted off a bezel.
World Time in stock
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