240 PS CI J LU with big date
Power reserve under 2 days. Then to reset the calendar, need to use 3 separate pushers. The new movement’s grande basculante seems like a missed opportunity to include a master pusher that advances all three (day, date, moonphase) at the same time, for th...
Old style movement?
Isn't anachronistic in 2024 a calendar watch that needs pushers to correct? Couldn't do that with the crown as many do now (even with perpetual calendars, actually)? IWC does that since the eighties, that's forty years... And I agree that less that two da...
PP could make a better slim automatic
According to Collectability , the cal. 240 base movement dates from 1977. The power reserve looks even worse when we consider that the beat rate is just 21,600 vph. To compare, the 90s-developed slim GP cal. 3100 delivers a comparable power reserve at 28,...
Recent in-depth of the cal. 240
June 2024 comparison between cal. 240 and LUC 1.96 " Patek Philippe has been making the 240 caliber for nearly 50 years and will be phasing out the 240 caliber for their new generation movement in the coming years (such as the 31-260 caliber)." " Movement...
It is a shame
Having seen some real live pictures now, I must say the blue day date could have been a great watch, only if it would have been far smaller. The complications are good, the instant changes are top, pushers are still o.k. as the movement is too complex. 45...
45 mm is a shocking width for a rectangular watch
I measured my large-sized Apple Watch - 38 mm wide. The Cubitus is as wide as an Apple Watch Ultra (44 mm wide)
the case measurement for 45mm is between 10 to 4 o'clock-diagonally !!
why is the measurement given diagonally ?
Yes, usually mm is mentioned as diagonally with square watches.
In order to tell the largest dimension, possibly. Regarless the information: it looks vast on the wrist on pictures!
Perhaps for comparability with Nautilus measurement
Nautilus diameter has been given between 4 and 10 o'clock, e.g. for the 5811: " Case White gold. Diameter (10–4 o’clock): 41 mm . Height: 8.2 mm. Water-resistant to 30 m. Screw-down crown. Sapphire crystal case back." ( PP webpage )
This has always bugged me about Patek
How they don't consider some aspects of the user interface. While iwc and moser have their easy-to-set QPs, and lange and GO have their zero reset as you pull out the crown, a point was emphasized in the intro to the Cubitus that *it hacks*... wow! How ad...
Patek loves modularity.
Setting the date with the crown requires more changes to the base movement. Patek's complications are highly modular and self-contained, which allows them to mix and match. For example, Patek has only had one (1) repeater base movement since 1989.
Yes, but it has advantages for the consumer too.
They can remix elements to create a lot more options, plus it increases overall production, so better availability.
The one thing that 'might' have made this more palatable to me...
...would have been a shaped movement. If you plan on expanding this line, throwing a round movement into a square case doesn't cut it at this price point.
Before even seeing it in real
My feeling has changed already. Humbly asked for the steel version when available to me.
"Reach out to a broader audience..."
What the---is he talking about?? Sometimes I read what Thierry says, and I feel 'gaslighted' to use a popular term... he knows he will not provide this watch 'to a broader audience' and he knows no one will be able to get it (from AD's, except the gents b...