Patek Philippe Ref. 5004G
Price: $241,000
Rich people love luxury watches. Rich people know that anyone can afford a Rolex or a Cartier and that TAG Heuer makes an excellent holiday gift for the gardener. To ensure that you have something in common with rich people, conversational knowledge of Patek Philippe is required. Unbeknownst to the masses, most luxury watches are manual winding movements, a feature greatly appreciated by aficionados. Refer to a quartz crystal and you are sure to be identified as a bus-riding commoner who appreciates the hourly chime feature of your Timex more than Patek’s moon phase complication.
Some of the world’s most expensive watches to cross Sotheby’s auction desks, fetching more than $11 million, have been built by Patek; great news if you prefer a used timepiece. If shiny and new are more intriguing, choose from a catalog of 203 exquisite Patek Phillipe watches. The 5004G is a hallmark of virtuosity and the most complicated model in the Patek line of stopwatches. Features include perpetual calendar, 24-hour display, precision moon phase mechanism and an ingenious rattrapante device. Not surprisingly, the 5004G tracks day, month, date, leap years and is available in white gold, yellow gold, platinum or rose gold with white or black face.
Are the Bugatti payments delaying Patek ownership this quarter yet you still need to impress the wealthy? Infer ownership by speaking of the Patek Philippe Magazine published twice a year exclusively for owners. Offhandedly reference the Calatrava Cross adopted by Patek, formerly the emblem of brave Spanish Knights. Use the French term ‘bienfacture’ or know the story of Henry Graves Jr. With this knowledge in hand, you are en route to meeting a sugar daddy willing to adorn your wrist with Suisse chronographs.
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I have a patek philippe 3448 for sale , any body interested?
Cheers
Joe
Oh, nevermind. It was awaiting moderation. Sorry, I’m new to the whole message board thing.
Hey, my comment was deleted. It was a Utopia quote about the futility of buying expensive toys. Damn you, plutocrats! *shakes fist*
“They find pearls on their coasts, and diamonds and carbuncles on their rocks; they do not look after them, but, if they find them by chance, they polish them, and with them they adorn their children, who are delighted with them, and glory in them during their childhood; but when they grow up to years, and see that none but children use such baubles, they of their own accord, without being bid by their parents, lay them aside, and would be as ashamed to use them afterwards as children among us, when they come to years, are of their puppets and other toys,” Thomas More, Utopia I’m violating rule #54. lol
I went to the Patek salon in Geneva, and a surprising number of the watches, especially women’s watches were quartz. There are few automatic because Patek has a very slim profile and an automatic means more thickness. The cheapest one I found was 10k. Rolex is mass class.
patek phillippe, i would kill a planet of puppies for the most basic model. gorgeous timepeice, too bad that one and soo many others are manual wind. well, my rolex with do for now
Nice looking blog. Which template are you using?
The Patek Philippe Ref. 5004 is a mechanical manually wound movement featuring a perpetual calendar and split seconds chronograph. A beautiful timepiece!
When you say manual-winding, you mean an actual knob, right? I figured most Patek Philippes were self-winding, with a weight that turned as you moved, turning a generator. That’s how most of Rolex’s models work.
This Patek Philippe timepiece is manually wound not self-winding. You are correct that most Rolex timepieces have self-winding movements. This Patek Philippe dose not.