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 good thing about any type of pattern. Certainly, the unique Golden Ellipse and all subsequent editions with bracelets had a little bit of a wearability difficulty. 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 essential.

This yr, Patek Philippe has resolved this fit-and-feel difficulty with a model new bracelet that may now be resized. Once we heard about this, one the primary day of the honest, we didn’t know the best way to really feel about it. No exhibition caseback, no change to the motion…only a new bracelet; fairly ho-hum. Not so. The bracelet is an incredible bit artisanal craftsmanship and would possibly even provoke the envy of Nautilus homeowners.

That’s how good this bracelet is, and sure that could 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 a substitute, 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 numerous completely different wrist sizes.

By way of different elements, the watch specs are very a lot the identical as all different kinds 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 normal 30m. Different normal options embrace the slender cheveu arms, 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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