SOLD Patek Philippe Aquanaut Travel Time 5164A-001

Patek Philippe Aquanaut Travel Time 5164A-001.

Steel case, diameter 40.8mm. Water resistant to 120 metres. Automatic PP movement caliber 324 S C FUS. 29 Jewels, 294 parts, 28,800 VPH, power reserve 35-45 hours. Black embossed dial with white Arabic hour markers, luminous hands and outer minute track hour markers, central second sweep. Sapphire crystal see-through case back, tropical rubber strap with double folding clasp, signed with the Calatrava-cross motif.

The travel-time function indicates local-time (where the wearer is) using solid, luminous hands and home time (where the wearer lives) using a skeleton hour-hand) with additional day/night windows. Date (linked to local time), is indicated at 6 o’clock.  When local time is the same as home time, the skeleton hour-hand is totally hidden behind the solid hour-hand using the pushers on the left-hand side of the case.

(RRP- £32,860)

Complete with Outer Box, Inner Wooden Presentation Box and pin stylus, the Certificate of Origin is dated January 2021; together with original Instruction Manual and other documentation, these papers are all contained in a Patek Philippe leather wallet.

This is a wonderful example of Patek Philippe’s legendary ‘Aquanaut 5164A’. Regarded by many as the grail Travel-Time watch in stainless steel, the wearer can see and adjust both their local- and home-times with ease, thanks to the brilliance and simplicity of the mechanism designed originally by Swiss master-watchmaker Louis Cottier. In its sporty Aquanaut case this classic time-piece is accurate to -3/+2 seconds per day and water-resistant to 120 metres.

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