Perpetual Calendar Minute Repeater 5013 Yellow Gold

In Context

At 36 mm it is classically proportioned: the size a dress watch was understood to be for most of the twentieth century, and small enough to sit under a cuff. The case back is open, so the movement is visible without taking the watch apart, and the sapphire crystal will resist everything short of deliberate abuse. Rated to 30 m, it is protected against rain and splashes and nothing beyond that.

The movement winds itself from the motion of your wrist. 48 hours of reserve is enough to set it down on Friday evening and find it still running on Monday. At 21,600 vph the seconds hand advances 6 times a second, the slower and more audible rate of an older design.

5013J-001 stands on its own in this catalogue — no other reference here shares its base number. It pairs a silver dial with a yellow gold case. Introduced in 2011. Beyond the time it carries a perpetual calendar and a minute repeater.

Mechanical self-winding movement with minute repeater and perpetual calendar with retrograde date hand. Day, month, leap year in apertures.

2 other watches in the library run the Patek Philippe R 27 PS QR.

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