Introducing The Patek Philippe 5330G World Time

The name of Patek Philippe has long been synonymous with exceptional timepieces, particularly renowned for its Worldtimers. At the Watches and Wonders Geneva 2024 exhibition, amidst a plethora of innovations in travel watches, Patek Philippe unveiled its inaugural permanent line world timer watch, featuring automatic date synchronization with local time.

Previously introduced as a limited edition of 300 exclusively for the Japanese market at last year's Tokyo Grand Exhibit, the 5330G is now being integrated into Patek's general catalog. This new World Time reference boasts an opaline blue-gray dial, adding to its allure.

The new World Time Reference 5330G-001 features a 40 mm x 11.57 mm case crafted from fully polished white gold, with elegantly curved two-tier fluted lugs. The case back is made of sapphire crystal, ensuring durability. It is guaranteed to be waterproof to a depth of 30 meters.

The opaline blue dial showcases a A guilloche patern in its center, which is a special pattern the company calls the carbon pattern. carbon-patterned center. Displayed on the silvery beveled flange is the date, indicated by a red-tipped central glass hand—a first for Patek Philippe, crafted from glass. A red dot positioned between Auckland and Midway delineates the date-change line on the city disk. The 24-hour disk is divided into two day/night zones, distinguished by their silvery or blue-gray backgrounds, as well as by sun and moon symbols. The local time of the selected time zone at 12 o'clock is denoted by faceted Dauphine-type hands and applied faceted baton-type hour-markers in white gold, featuring a white luminescent coating.

In a departure from conventional world time watches, thanks to an ingenious mechanism patented in 1999, users can seamlessly correct all World Time displays, including the date, in one-hour increments by simply pressing the pusher at 10 o'clock.

The 5330G is powered by the new Patek caliber 240 HU C, which Patek introduced last year. It's a world timer with 24-hour day/night indication for each time zone, but it's most notable for being the first world time that has a date that faithfully tracks the local time. According to Patek, In order to offer this useful and highly practical function. This caliber is an automatic movement that beats at 3 Hz  Wound by a 22k micro-rotor,and has a 48-hour power reserve. 

The straps offered with this timepiece it is a calfskin strap hand-stitched with a denim pattern in blue-gray, secured by a fold-over clasp crafted in white gold. the watch will join the permanent line and it is priced at CHF 65,000 which is equivalent to 264,000 AED.

For more information, please visit Patek Philippe official website.