Patek Philippe

The Patek Philippe Nautilus Ref. 5980 is one of the most appreciated chronograph in the whole market. A lot of watch-lovers celebrate its iconic design, its supreme comfort, its unrivalled exclusivity. It seems that this reference produce a true, universa...  

The balance of an original design can hardly resist to any change in the proportions... IMO. The 5980 is already a big and thick watch, but still appealing. Making it bigger would be risky. Best, Nicolas.

The case proportions aren't changed, except the bezel width. For a better comparison, please look this side-by-side picture, where the two watches (the original and mine) are represented with a 1:1 scale. That said, you could still find more appealing the...  

But I don't quite like the date, and find it quite useless, just as in other brands. So I will get rid of it, in an academic design discussion. Your version vary only slightly from the original, and the only visible difference is at 6 o'clock, where the s... 

Dear Horo, when I used the expression "I find it cluttered and a bit lost in the watch face" I wanted to say that: 1. I find the dial cluttered because the indices are too centered. It results from having used the same (big) indices of the classical Nauti...  

i am actually quite impressed with your considered approach, are you design or architecture trained?? best, Horo

When I was little, in the '80s, my greatest passions were cars and watches. My myths were Giorgetto Giugiaro and Nicolas Hayek. I admired Giugiaro for his ability to translate both the needs of contemporary men and the Italian culture into automotive desi... 

I think increasingly the world of horology and functional design are colliding. And you could be on the right track here. But perhaps you could look at some CAD/CAM software(I am a ignoramus in matters as such, I don't even know Photoshop!!) that allows y...