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Patek Philippe Grand Complications Minute Repeater, reference 5208R-001

Patek Philippe

Grand Complications Minute Repeater

Ref. 5208R-001

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Case42mm 18k rose gold
DialBlack
ComplicationMinute repeater, perpetual calendar, chronograph
MovementAutomatic R CH 27 PS QI
StrapAlligator

The 5208 is one of the most complicated wristwatches Patek Philippe makes in series: a minute repeater, a single pusher chronograph and an instantaneous perpetual calendar, all self winding. Fewer than a handful leave Geneva in a year.

This Patek Philippe Grand Complications wears a 42mm 18k rose gold case with a black dial. Automatic R CH 27 PS QI inside.

Fun fact: Every Patek minute repeater is listened to and signed off by the company president before it leaves, a rule Philippe Stern set and Thierry Stern kept. An instantaneous perpetual calendar jumps all its discs at midnight rather than creeping over an hour, which takes far more energy to do.

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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