PATEK 5130/12 WORLD TIME 18K ROSE GOLD RUBY BEZEL AUTOMATIC

This watch was custom-ordered by an important Patek customer in 2012 and is a piece unique with its own reference number 5130/12. Featuring rose gold case set with 44 baguette rubies in the bezel, this watch is complete with box and papers. Just outstanding!

Patek Philippe invented the world time complication in a wristwatch and today, after innumerable imitators, Patek Philippe still makes the nicest worldtimer.

Case is 18k rose gold with diameter of 40mm and thickness of 10.4mm. Obviously, the highlight is the factory 3.18c ruby bezel. Sapphire crystals front and display back. Button at 10 o'clock advances the hour hand in one hour increments. This allows the traveler the ability to change the time as he or she travels through time zones.

Dial is gray. Inner zone is guilloche with hour markers. Surrounding this area is a ring with numerals '1' through '24' which represent the 24 hours in a day. This ring turns counter clockwise, making a full rotation once every 24 hours. The time in the 24 reference cities, printed in the dial's outermost area, can be seen simultaneously with this world time system. In my opinion, this manner of tracking world time is much better than watches which merely use a 24 hour "GMT" hand, forcing the wearer to calculate world time versus simply reading it at a glance as this watch allows.

Movement is the Patek Philippe Caliber 240 HU with 33 jewels and 48 hour power reserve. The caliber is stamped with the Geneva Seal.

Strap is Patek hand sewn crocodile with 18k rose gold Patek tang buckle.

Watch is new condition with box and papers.