Typically, a watch simply must get made to be an unqualified success however this isn’t the case with Ref. 5378/1R-001. Though a staple at Patek Philippe, the watch earned its place within the assortment with out the advantage of any form of pattern. Certainly, the unique Golden Ellipse and all subsequent editions with bracelets had a little bit of a wearability subject. The bracelet was a pure piece of jewelry, like a bangle, and couldn’t be simply resized. This essentially restricted the potential of the watch, and made the leather-based strap possibility inevitable. The Golden Ellipse is a complete design watch although and the character of the bracelet is vital.
This yr, Patek Philippe has resolved this fit-and-feel subject with a model new bracelet that may now be resized. After we heard about this, one the primary day of the honest, we didn’t know how you can really feel about it. No exhibition caseback, no change to the motion…only a new bracelet; fairly ho-hum. Not so. The bracelet is a tremendous bit artisanal craftsmanship and may even provoke the envy of Nautilus homeowners.
That’s how good this bracelet is, and sure that may be a reference to the presence of screwed hyperlinks right here. However this bracelet doesn’t have particular person strong items, because the aforementioned Nautilus bracelet. As an alternative, it has greater than 360 items and is assembled painstakingly by hand. That is what offers this new bracelet its flexibility, when it comes to simply accommodating a variety of totally different wrist sizes.
By way of different components, the watch specs are very a lot the identical as all different types of Golden Ellipse watches. This implies there’s a strong caseback that obscures the self-winding calibre 240 (which is bleed by the Patek Philippe seal) and that water-resistance is dress-watch commonplace 30m. Different commonplace options embrace the slender cheveu fingers, gold dial plate and baton-style applique hour markers. Solely the CHF value is thought and that works out to be CHF51,000.
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