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PP ChronoWorldTimer, III proposal (+ some observations)

Dear PP-lovers,

First of all, thank you for letting me share and discuss with you my very modest proposals on a watch whose idea was born just on this excellent forum, some days ago, by the fellow Purist Bruno.M1, supported by dr.kol and cory.

As you know, the design process of a new watch keep a huge team of high-level professionals very busy even for years, so you can't expect that an uneducated watch-lover like me could elaborate the actually right design of a new, never-released watch. Moreover, Patek Philippe has very often surprised us with innovative pieces of haute horlogery (I'm sorry, moc, but I don't agree with you: PP aren't boring at all). So, to try to guess the design of the PPs of the future is almost impossible, at least for me. As the fellow Purist moc has rightly written: my creations <

That said, let's go back to the idea of a PP ChronoWorldTimer. When I design a new watch, I always start from the movement: every proposal of mine is based on the real size and the real shape of existing movements. Wanting to daydream on a PP ChronoWorldTimer, I started from the following observation: the PP World Time complication is an additional module placed at the top of a base movement (the automatic caliber 240 with micro rotor), so I had to choose one of the integrated PP chronograph calibers, as a base movement. As you know, the choice was narrow to the CH 28-520 (automatic) and CH 29-535 (manual). The first caliber is characterized by the 60-minutes and 12-hours mono-counter, without continuous seconds; the second one has a more "classic" design, with two subdials for chronographic 30-minutes and for continuous seconds. I have chosen the latter, because adding the 24-hours and the 24-cities rings to the CH 28-520 would have produced a very big watch, with a diameter of at least 48 mm and because I think that the mono-counter shouldn't aestetically works well with the World Time complication.

In the past I have worked on various design proposals for PP chronographs, so I have on my HD various good files made up with a vector graphics editor. Some of the elements I've used now have beeen designed by me some years ago. The first proposal had the same case of the ref. 5170, but with a diameter of 42 mm. instead of 39; the dial looked like an old ref. 130; to use the World Time function, I have implemented two pushers on the left (original idea by the Purist dr.kol). The second proposal is a more conservative version of the first one: the dial has the same guillochage of the ref. 5131P (original idea by the Purist cory) and it has a single pusher to operate the World Time.

 Here's a comparison with the Girard Perregaux WW.TC. ref. 49805 (case diameter: 43 mm.). Do they look the same?

Thank you for reading, and for your patience . Ciao,

 

Elio