Gold Souk, Deira
Patek Philippe Complications, reference 4968R-001

Patek Philippe

Complications

Ref. 4968R-001

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Case35mm rose gold
DialDiamond set
MovementCH 29-535 PS
ComplicationChrono + moon phase
StrapLeather

Patek Philippe’s Complications line holds the useful arts between time only and grand complication: dual time zones, moonphases and calendars finished to the Patek Philippe Seal. These are the house’s quiet daily masterworks.

The 4968R is a mechanical tour de force in 35mm rose gold with chronograph, moon phase, and a paved dial that catches every facet of light.

Fun fact: Patek's ladies chronographs share the same obsessive movement finishing as the men's line, despite most wearers never seeing the movement.

The collection

Complications

Patek's own name for everything past time only, short of a Grand Complication

Complications is Patek Philippe's own catalogue division, covering watches that do something beyond telling the time without going as far as the Grand Complications. Chronographs sit here alongside world time, travel time, moon phase and annual calendar models, and the regulator dials that put the hours and seconds on subdials and sweep the minutes from the centre. Cases are round and classical, in gold, platinum or steel, so the interest is in what the dial is doing rather than the shape holding it. Patek describes its chronographs as reading speed, distance and pulse without arithmetic, taken from scales printed on the dial.

Sizes in the family

38 to 42 mm on current references, earlier pieces smaller

Who it suits

For the buyer who wants a mechanism to read on the dial each day rather than a watch that only shows the time.

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