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This model, a pure masterpiece of the Geneva-based manufacture’s know-how, takes on luxurious adornments with this platinum variation. Timeless yet incredibly up-to-the-minute.
Suggesting rather than revealing all. This option gives the design a new lease of life. You just need to run your eyes over the magnificent gradient-toned metallic blue sapphire-crystal dial that veers to black around the edges of reference 5316/50P-001 Grandes Complications imagined by Patek Philippe to see what we mean. In contrast to an entirely openworked scenescape, here, the caliber components are discreet yet play a subtle role in the timepiece’s classy personality. In short, the time data is wonderfully-easy to read inside the 40.2 mm-diameter platinum case. Alongside the hour and minute hands that hover over an hour chapter comprising markers, a perpetual calendar, epitomizing the manufacture’s time-honored tradition, reigns. Here, we discover a central date inspirited by a hand retrograde display. The day, month and leap year are unveiled in their respective apertures. The moon’s phases, combined with the small seconds set at 6 o’clock, unfold in a star-studded sky.
All the data is accurately driven by the complicated R TO 27 PS QR tourbillon caliber assembled using some 506 components. This hand-wound movement (38 hours’ power reserve) also powers a minute repeater boasting two classical gongs. A stylized pusher integrated in the caseband triggers the mechanism. Last but not least, the sapphire-crystal caseback invites to admire the regulating device’s exquisite finishes, workings and gyrations. When revealing can spark wonder.
