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Mark in Paris
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A little walk around the 5270G White dial+Blue dial and 5170G

I've been lurking near the PC Chrono iconic Pateks lately and trying to discover what attracts me in a 3970, in a 5970 (and 5070) as in the last 5270G white (ref 013) and blue dial (ref 014) (and the 5170G).

It is natural that watch fans usually prefer older models they could get used to, seeing them over a long period of time. This implies that many novelties have had a difficult time when launched (for instance the 5070 and 5970).

At that time 5970 was a major change in style compared to the 1518 but also to the 3970's pushers and proportions. I must say it was even more obvious with the chrono-only models as 5070 was a significant change in styling compared to 130/530/591/1579. The 5170 is, in that matter, a come-back to the original look.

This to say that we are now very used to looking at the 5970/5070 layout and that significant changes applied to the last versions is more difficult to accept.

We need to leave time to these novelties to really conclude about the "legitimacy". We certainly are incline to judge them more severly today than we will in 10 years from now.

Adding the change in movement design and the subject is even more difficult to clarify.

I'm one of those who trully love the 5070/5970 but who also likes the new generation 5170/5270. But not all versions... as many of you I guess.

I've been reading very much these last weeks about them, considering the movement finish (Lemania vs in-house), its size, the significant mechanical improvements, the fact that the whole watch is now being developped by Patek with its own engineers, the dial's layout, symetry, colors etc ....



I don't want to go too deeply into my thoughts and reflexions but I came to discover I finally really like the 5170G, so classic (fashion hazard-proof), very elegant, perfectly sized, wonderfully engined, nice dial sandblasted decoration, pushers comfort. A trip back to the original Patek chronos.

I didn't like the first 5270G as I have a problem with these metalic brushed dials (completly subjective reflex of course). But I must say the 013 (white) and 014 (blue) are really growing on me.

The little holes for the day/night and leap years indications have been seen before on Pateks and, watches in hand, the 6 o'clock "chin" is really less obvious: first, because the watch is much smaller than all the macro shots we have available on the net and this forum and secondly, because the dial is so balanced and finely decorated that the "chin" is well integrated.

Sometime reading from watch fans make some little flaws that you wouldn't have noticed, be overestimated.

The 5270's style is definitely cleaner and more modern than the  5970's (here I compared grey gold vs grey gold) but not less interesting.


Remember the "fresh" welcome for the 5070 and the 5970 at the time, we need also time to fairly judge these young descendants.

I'll finish with some pictures I took of the blue 5270G (taken a while ago), the 5270G white (taken recently together with the 5170G). I couldn't hold them at the same time, but the blue 5270's color seems very close to the 5070P's dial (i.e. not as dark as on pictures).

Cheers, Mark