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Patek Philippe Chronograph (Blue Varnished), reference 5172G-001

Patek Philippe

Chronograph (Blue Varnished)

Ref. 5172G-001

$65,600 · AED 240,900

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Case41mm 18k white gold
DialBlue varnished, tachymeter scale
MovementCalibre CH 29-535 PS
StrapNavy calfskin, nubuck finish
Water30m
Year2019

The 5172G replaced the 5170 in 2019 as Patek's hand-wound chronograph without a calendar. It reverted to a more openly vintage case with three-tier lugs and a box crystal, a sharper break than the 5170's run of incremental dial changes.

This Patek Philippe Chronograph wears a 41mm 18k white gold case with a blue varnished dial and a printed tachymeter scale. Calibre CH 29-535 PS inside, on a navy calfskin strap.

Fun fact: the CH 29-535 PS carries six patents and did not debut in a men's watch. It arrived in the 2009 Ladies First Chronograph, the first Patek to carry the Patek Philippe Seal.

The collection

Complications

Patek's own name for everything past time only, short of a Grand Complication

Complications is Patek Philippe's own catalogue division, covering watches that do something beyond telling the time without going as far as the Grand Complications. Chronographs sit here alongside world time, travel time, moon phase and annual calendar models, and the regulator dials that put the hours and seconds on subdials and sweep the minutes from the centre. Cases are round and classical, in gold, platinum or steel, so the interest is in what the dial is doing rather than the shape holding it. Patek describes its chronographs as reading speed, distance and pulse without arithmetic, taken from scales printed on the dial.

Sizes in the family

38 to 42 mm on current references, earlier pieces smaller

Who it suits

For the buyer who wants a mechanism to read on the dial each day rather than a watch that only shows the time.

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