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Patek Philippe Ladies First Perpetual Calendar, reference 7140G-001

Patek Philippe

Ladies First Perpetual Calendar

Ref. 7140G-001

$68,100 · AED 250,100

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Case35.1mm 18k white gold
DialSilvered sunburst
Bezel68 diamonds
MovementCalibre 240 Q
StrapGrey alligator
Water30m
Year2017

The 7140 sits in Patek's Ladies First programme, which puts complications normally kept for the men's catalogue into smaller gem-set cases. It replaced the earlier ladies' perpetual and has since left the collection, so what trades now comes from the secondary market.

This Patek Philippe Ladies First Perpetual Calendar wears a 35.1mm 18k white gold case with a silvered sunburst dial under a diamond-set bezel. Calibre 240 Q inside, on a grey alligator strap.

Fun fact: the calibre 240 Q inside is the same perpetual calendar micro-rotor movement Patek has used since the reference 3940 of 1985, so the complication is the men's one rather than a reduced version of it.

The collection

Perpetual Calendar

The calendar that needs no correction until 2100, in series production since 1941

Patek Philippe built the first perpetual calendar wristwatch in 1925, on a movement made in 1898 for a pendant watch, and brought the complication into series production in 1941 with the reference 1518 perpetual calendar chronograph. The mechanism carries the long and short months and the leap year cycle, and Patek states that it needs no correction until 2100. One layout recurs across the family, with day and month in apertures below 12 and the date read by a hand around a moon phase at 6, while other references set the calendar out in subdials read by hands, run it in a single line across the dial, or sweep the date on a retrograde hand. They sit under Grand Complications in the catalogue, in round gold and platinum cases.

Sizes in the family

39 to 41.3 mm on current references, earlier pieces smaller

Who it suits

For the buyer who wants the calendar to look after itself, and will keep the watch running so it never needs resetting.

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