The Limited Edition Patek Philippe
Multi-Scale Chronograph (Reference 5975)
Patek Philippe is a timepiece and masterpiece demonstration of watch makers, with most complicated wristwatches ever made. This new "Multi-Scale Chronograph," as they are calling it, is really a unique offering.This watch was made by many persons with lots of dedication and full of dreams. this 40 mm chrono looks similar to the traditional 5170, but it's not. Let's get into what makes the 5975 so interesting. More reasonably priced but highly beautiful and crafted masterpieces that had a huge demand into the community of collectors. One of these limited editions retained our attention, a chronograph with a unique approach and a very pure branded design, the Patek Philippe Multi-Scale Chronograph (Ref. 5975).
Dial of the new 5975 are three different scales ie a pulsometer scale calibrated to 15 pulsations, allowing physicians to calculate a patient's pulse in far less than one minute. Outside that, you'll see a telemeter scale, which is used to calculate distance based on the difference between the speed of light and the speed of sound used in military calculations, one could calculate how far the enemy was by timing the difference between when you saw a flash of light, and when you heard the sound of fire.
The Patek Philippe Multi-Scale Chronograph Ref. 5975 comes with a very specific layout that being made over decades, a three-scale timing ‘computer‘. Most of the chronographs are coming with a tachymeter scale (which is mostly used as a decoration). And until the 1960s/1970s it was not unusual to see chronographs with multiple scales, especially not for military tool-watches. Patek now reintroduces this display, as the 5975 comes with the 3 most usual scales, meaning a telemeter, a pulsimeter and a tachymeter.
THE LIMITED TIMEPIECE EDITION SPECIFICATIONS
Movement: Caliber 28-520, Self-winding mechanical movement, chronograph with column wheel and vertical clutch. Diameter 30mm, height 5.2mm. 239 parts. 29 jewels. Min 50 hours of power reserve. 21k gold rotor, unidirectional winding. Gyromax Balance wheel. Frequency: 21,600 bph – 3hz.
- Functions: hours, minutes and Sweep chronograph hand
- Case: round, 40mm x 10.25mm, 18K yellow, white, or rose gold or platinum 950, solid gold or platinum back with engraving “PATEK PHILIPPE GENEVE 175e Anniversaire 1839 – 2014“. Water-resistant to 30 m.
- Dial (gold editions): silvery gray with black printed scales Dauphine hour and minute hands in gold to match the case Chronograph hand blackened Pfinodal, Obus hour markers in gold to match the case.
- Dial (Platinum edition): black with white printed scales Dauphine hour and minute hands in 18K white gold Chronograph hand rhodium Pfinodal, Obus hour markers in 18K white gold.
- Strap: Alligator with large square scales, hand-stitched, shiny black (platinum and white-gold models), shiny chocolate brown (yellow gold), and ultra-shiny chocolate brown (rose gold), fold-over clasp in 18K gold to match the case or in platinum, with engraving “PATEK PHILIPPE 1839 – 2014".
The Patek Philippe Multi-Scale Chronograph features a modern and maybe more practical movement. Not that it is not a nice one, but it does not have the superb layout, with visible gears and levers, of the manual engine.
Inside the 5975 ticks an in-house movement, the Calibre CH28-520. It is not a new movement as it was already featured in the Nautilus Chronographs, both the and the actual, revealed this year at Baselworld. What is exactly the Calibre CH28-520? It is a self-winding movement that boasts min. 50 hours of power reserve and that comes with a full rotor on the top, made of 21k gold.
