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Patek Philippe Calatrava 8-Day (Textured Blue), reference 5328G-001

Patek Philippe

Calatrava 8-Day (Textured Blue)

Ref. 5328G-001

$80,300 · AED 294,900

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Case41mm 18k white gold
DialTextured blue, black gradient rim
MovementCalibre 31-505, eight days
StrapBlue calfskin, fabric pattern
Water30m
Year2025

Eight-day hand-wound movements have been a small and persistent thread in the Patek catalogue rather than a headline family, valued mostly because a week-plus reserve suits a watch that is not worn daily. The 5328G pairs that reserve with an instantaneous day aperture and a pointer date on a vertical axis.

This Patek Philippe Calatrava 8-Day wears a 41mm 18k white gold case with a textured blue dial running to a black rim. Calibre 31-505 inside, on a blue calfskin strap with a fabric pattern.

Fun fact: the power reserve scale runs to nine days rather than eight, with the final day marked in red as a margin beyond the guaranteed reserve. The calibre name spells it out: 8J is huit jours.

The collection

Calatrava

Patek's round dress watch, launched in 1932 with the reference 96

The Calatrava opened in 1932 with the reference 96, a plain round watch that Patek describes as drawn on the Bauhaus principle that function determines the form of an object, and the house dates the line from it. The name comes from the Calatrava cross, the emblem registered as the company trademark in 1887. The look is deliberately quiet: a round case with a slim bezel, applied markers or Breguet numerals, and nothing on the dial competing for attention. The reference 6119 carries the hobnail Clous de Paris pattern guilloched on its bezel, and the reference 5227 hides its sapphire back under a dust cover on an invisible hinge.

Sizes in the family

34.6 to 40 mm across the current references

Who it suits

For the buyer who wants a formal watch with nothing to explain, and is content for it to go unnoticed across a table.

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