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Patek Philippe Flyback Chronograph Annual Calendar (Joaillerie), reference 5961R-010

Patek Philippe

Flyback Chronograph Annual Calendar (Joaillerie)

Ref. 5961R-010

$157,300 · AED 577,700

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Case40.5mm 18k rose gold
DialEbony black opaline, baguette diamond markers
Bezel36 baguette-cut diamonds
MovementCalibre CH 28-520 IRM QA
StrapBlack alligator
Water30m

The annual calendar chronograph began with the reference 5960 of 2006, both Patek's first pairing of those two complications and its first fully in-house self-winding chronograph. The 5961 continues that architecture in a jewelled register, with the calendar read through an arc of apertures.

This Patek Philippe Flyback Chronograph Annual Calendar wears a 40.5mm 18k rose gold case with an ebony black opaline dial and baguette-set markers. Calibre CH 28-520 IRM QA inside, on a black alligator strap.

Fun fact: the chronograph has no separate minute and hour registers. The single counter at 6 carries two coaxial hands reading 60 minutes and 12 hours off one track, which is what keeps the dial symmetrical under the calendar apertures.

The collection

Annual Calendar

The calendar Patek patented in 1996, set once a year at the end of February

Patek Philippe patented the annual calendar in 1996 and introduced it in the reference 5035, a self-winding watch that reads the long and short months by itself and needs one correction a year, at the end of February. It sits between a simple date and a perpetual calendar, since it knows which months run to 30 and 31 days but not February. The tell is three apertures for day, date and month set along the arc of a circle below 12, with a moon phase and 24 hour indication at 6 on many references. Patek files the family under Complications, and it runs from plain round gold references through the regulator, travel time and flyback chronograph versions to diamond set ladies models.

Sizes in the family

38 to 42 mm on current references, earlier pieces smaller

Who it suits

For the buyer who wants a calendar on the dial but is content to set it once a year, at the end of February.

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