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Patek Philippe World Time (Blue Dial), reference 5230P-001

Patek Philippe

World Time (Blue Dial)

Ref. 5230P-001

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Case38.5mm platinum
DialBlue, Arabic numerals
Movement240 HU
StrapPlatinum
Year2024

Patek Philippe’s World Time descends from Louis Cottier’s 1930s mechanism showing all twenty four zones at once. No complication is more associated with the house.

This 2024 Patek Philippe World Time pairs a 38.5mm platinum case with a blue face. The 240 HU movement drives it.

Fun fact: The world time mechanism on the dial was invented by Louis Cottier in the 1930s, a Geneva watchmaker Patek worked with directly. Twenty four cities rotate against a central hour disc, all set from a single pusher.

The collection

World Time

All 24 time zones on one dial, a Patek complication since the 1930s

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.

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.

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