Patek Philippe Annual Calendar 5396/1G Blue Dial 18K White Gold / Bracelet

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This is an 18K white gold Patek Philippe Calatrava Annual Calendar 5396/1G-001. It has an integral 18k white gold link bracelet with a double folding deployment buckle, and a scratch resistant anti-reflective sapphire crystal. It has a screw down winding crown with the Calatrava emblem, and there are four correctors for adjusting the annual calendar functions, including two on the left-side case band at 8 and 10 o'clock, and two more are on the right-side case band at 2 and 4 o'clock. There is a snap-on case back with an exhibition sapphire crystal. The 38mm diameter solid three body case, downturned lugs, and angled flat bezel are all polished. The dial is blue with applied white gold baton hour index markers, a dot perimeter minute track, and feuille hands with a center sweep seconds hand. It has a recessed blue subsidiary 24-hour dial with a moon phase register at 6 o'clock, and there square aperture windows for the day and month, with a third aperture at 6 o'clock for the date underneath the moon phase dial. It's water resistant and the 11.5mm thick case, dial, and movement are all signed. This Patek Philippe Calatrava Annual Calendar 5396/1G-001 has a mechanical automatic self-winding Patek Philippe caliber 324 S QA LU 24H movement is rhodium-plated with fausses cotes embellishment, and the Patek Philippe stamp of the Seal of quality. It's constructed with 36 jewels, 11 bridges, a straight-line lever escapement, and the patented Gyromax balance that adjusts for cold, heat, isochronism, and for five positions. It has a Spiromax balance spring, an anti-shock device, a 21K gold rotor, and a self-compensating flat balance spring. The mechanism oscillates at a frequency of 28,800 vph (4 Hz). Patek Philippe designed the case of this Patek Philippe Calatrava Annual Calendar 5396/1G-001 after its famous Calatrava reference 96 from 1932. This model was first produced in 1996. This annual calendar mechanism actually compensates for the various lengths of each month from March 1 to the end of February, necessitating only one adjustment a year.

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