5160/500R
RETROGRADE PERPETUAL CALENDAR, RARE HANDCRAFTS.
INTRODUCTION
5160/500R - GRAND COMPLICATIONS
SELF-WINDING
The Retrograde Perpetual Calendar Rare Handcrafts Reference 5160/500 is reinterpreted in a new rose gold version with a silvery opaline dial.
The dial center, bezel, case middle, crown, hinged cover and lugs, as well as the fold-over clasp and strap screws are adorned with richly hand-engraved decoration composed of volutes and foliage inspired by a pocket watch from the Patek Philippe Museum.
Self-winding 26-330 S QR caliber drives displays of day, leap-year cycle and month through apertures at 9, 12 and 3 o’clock. The date is indicated by a retrograde hand sweeping over an arc between 8 and 4 o’clock.
The Officer’s-style case features a sapphire crystal case-back protected by a hinged cover.
WATCH
Self-winding mechanical movement. Caliber 26‑330 S QR. Perpetual calendar with retrograde date hand. Day, month and leap year in apertures. Moon phases. Sweep seconds.
DIAL
Silvery opaline, hand-engraved center, blackened white gold applied Breguet numerals. 18K gold dial plate.
CASE
Rose gold. Hand-engraved case, hinged cover, crown, lugs and screws. Diameter: 38 mm. Thickness: 11.81 mm. Water-resistant to 30 m. Sapphire crystal case back protected by a hand-engraved hinged dust cover.
STRAP
Alligator leather with square scales, hand-stitched, patinated brown. Hand-engraved rose gold fold-over clasp.
