Here Are All of Patek Philippe’s New Watches, From Denim-Strapped Aquanauts to New World Timers
Each spring, the new releases from the storied independent watch house Patek Philippe are nearly as highly anticipated as those from Rolex. This year sees Patek updating perennial favorites, in what appears to be a trend across brands for 2024’s edition of Watches & Wonders. For some brands, this move can seem overly conservative, but for Patek Philippe — a storied independent brand with a catalog full of genre-defining designs — updating the classics can be even more satisfying for collectors than dropping new and daring watches.
If we had to sum up this year’s offerings from Patek Philippe it would be this: There’s a lot of rose gold, a surprising amount of denim — yes, as in bluejeans — and no new Nautilus.
Patek has made some interesting moves over the past five years or so, asserting its history and heritage rather than caving in to the heated demand for trending watches. For example, late in 2021 Patek famously cancelled the stainless steel Nautilus 5711, a move that can only be read as not only a defiance of the integrated steel bracelet watch trend, but also as an attempt to avoid being overly identified with one 1970s model as Audemars Piguet is with its Royal Oak. Instead, Patek moved its outdoorsy emphasis back onto the Calatrava line — especially 2022’s 5226G field watch — historically the only Patek to actually see military action. In this manner, Patek has asserted a more accurate history for itself.
It is only in this context that one can really make sense of Patek Philippe’s releases for 2024, which are decidedly an assertion of its storied history. This year’s 5236P in-line perpetual calendar with a rose gold opaline (a.k.a. salmon) dial is emblematic of this assertion. Th 5236 is a traditionally styled perpetual calendar with a totally unique, yet understated, four-disc complication displaying the day, date and month. Or consider the Aquanauts for 2024, which deliberately push against the norms of the integrated bracelet watch category, here offered in cool blue-grays and paired with denim. And even the paved Auqanaut retains the core design elements of that now-revered model.
Below you will find every new Patek Philippe model for 2024.
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