FabR
[Senior Patek Moderator]
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Probably #2 for me among those (obviously that specific 5650G belongs to Patek and will never be on sale! ;-)) but I agree the new 5990 is terrific in this R gold case/blue dial combo! ;-)
Trying to capture the Royal Navy blue of this aquanaut
You wouldn’t know it looking at the pictures on the websites, but it seems the shades of blue are different across Aquanaut and Overseas models as they are on the different Nautilus versions. The new chronograph version of the Aquanaut has a royal blue na...
Glad you're already fully enjoying your new 5968G, and thanks for the interesting observations! It's indeed good many of these blue dials are different, as you mentioned, so as to further differentiate among sports references...
Here's actually this 5968G along with a couple of other blue dials for sports models that I had a chance to see at an event last month...interestingly, the 5968 blue does look quite similar (same?) to the iconic 5650G (a 2017 limited edition)! ;-) Cheers....
Thanks for those pictures
The advanced research is a legend! Can you confirm if the blue is really different from the time only?
I thought so
Thanks for confirming. It’s interesting that with both the Patek Aquanaut and Vacheron Overseas the time only has the brilliant blue, while the more complicated variants have a more conservative understated effect. Yet that’s quite the opposite with the N...
