Reply With QuoteA better picture than the previous one posted but the watch doesn't look any better. Still looks cheap and nasty imo.
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"Yes, it’s official. #patekphilippe has replaced the 5960P and 5960R with the 5960/1A. For those not fluent in patek, that’s an annual calendar with chronograph in STAINLESS STEEL on a steel bracelet. Full specs including price on HODONKEE now. (at www.hodinkee.com)"
A better picture than the previous one posted but the watch doesn't look any better. Still looks cheap and nasty imo.
I don't know. I hate to say this but I errrr, like it?! It's a major departure for patek and I don't think this is a terrible thing.Originally Posted by shadowman
I tend to agree. Something a bit different.
It is not photogenic, that's for sure. The only PATEK (caps in honour of our esteemed friend Archieluxury) I have ever seen in the wild was a Nautilus, on the wrist of a rather obnoxious fellow, and it didn't look 'all that' either. I just don't get them, which probably makes me a philistine. I have had half a bottle of red and two stiff martinis so apologies.
You'll need good eyes to read the chrono and 12-hour sub-dials. And is that blue disc a day/night indicator?
Its got a kind of Daytona baton, transocean speedmaster skydweller look about it on a Raymond weil bracelet.
Individually they are great watches, but this is a bad example of a Heinz 57, Patek get your act together.
Certainly different but looks a little messy and lacks the finesse usually associated with Patek imho.
Great vision, bad execution.
“Don’t look back, you’re not heading that way.”
That is just HORRIBLE!!
Patek need to get back to some more elegant designs.
I realise they can't just churn out the same old classic dress watches every year, but their efforts over the past few years (especially the 'Sports' watches) have been tacky and derivative.
Love it! A proper High End Sports Watch, not like the ridiculous Skymaster and Yachtdweller.....or the vulgar ROOs and the fashion Big Bangs
That looks fairly horrific imho, and from someone who loves the 5960R/P. I always think that Pateks look better on the wrist than in a window but I'm not convinced it'll be enough to help this one!
I suspect that prices on the 5960p/r will rise now..... Discontinued and ugly replacement.....
Still this might be better on the wrist, but for me it's trying too hard.
yes right,
weird to discontinue the precious metal versions and replace them with this instead of offering both precious and steel
a stainless version of the old 5960 without the dial/hand changes, just with the different case material would seem perfect compared to this on first impression
it looks like a 5960 with an aftermarket pimp job
Last edited by Rudy Russo; 26th March 2014 at 18:34.
Pretty sure I could find something a lot more aesthetically pleasing for the money.
This just looks... Over-designed? Cluttered?
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