Patek Philippe 5327R Perpetual Calendar (5327R-001) Patek Philippe Watch Review

Hi, this is Tim of the 1916 Company. Welcome and thanks for logging on. If you love this watch, email me, Tim Aosso at the1916company.com for purchase pricing and availability questions concerning this watch. Today, we discuss a launch from Baselworld 2016. This is the Patek Philippe 5327R001. It's a model that replaced the prior reference 5140, a perpetual calendar in the grand tradition of Patek Philippe. You can see it's 39 millimeters in diameter in rose gold. In profile, you can see the watch is only 10 millimeters thick. We'll zoom out a little bit, get a better focus. The watch featuring a lug to lug span that's nice and tidy at only 46.5 millimeters with a vintagey 19 millimeter spacing between the lugs. We'll throw it on my wrist, which is 16 centimeters circumference and it wears nicely. I could recommend this watch for a wrist as small as 15 centimeters circumference and it is flat. It'll easily slide under a cuff. We have large rectangular symmetrical scale alligator leather, a very expensive high quality cut of the beast. It's gloss medium brown. We've got a folded edge, a monotone stitch, calfskin on the bottom. You can see pull tab, removable spring bars. You can pop the strap off without tools. A Patek Philippe factory strap in excellent condition, as you can see here. And then we've got a folding clasp, single fold with the Calatrava cross, the logo of the company. You'll also find that, for example, on the crown. You'll also find it on the rotor of the movement. And then we have a single fold friction fit clasp. We do have a radial spring that makes for somewhat better and more secure closure than a simple friction fit. It snaps sharply. 30 meters water resistant. So it's a dress watch, no doubt there, but it's also more nuanced than you probably think. If you've only seen head-on shots on the internet, you probably missed these gloriously concave and mirrored lug profiles that add considerable grace. You can also see that we have a stepped and concave bezel for the same purpose. The dial, a lovely and rich off-white lacquer with Breguet style, rose gold applique, Arabic numerals, and matching rose gold hands. The point of all this dial side enclosed rose gold, so that if any moisture does intrude into the watch, it will not oxidize or tarnish. Perpetual calendar. We have three coaxial registers. We have our time of day in a 24 hour format and our day of the week. We have our leap year phase and our month, and then we have our moon phase and our date. And this is perpetual calendar, so no need to correct it until the year 2100. And in the case of the moon phase, it goes 122 years between corrections. You might wonder, why do we have this 24 hour hand over at nine o'clock if, for example, the watch is not a GMT and it's not. Well, you know, I need to know if I'm setting my calendar, is this midnight or is this midday? Because if you set the watch at night, you can damage it. If you try to use these calendar correctors to correct the perpetual calendar, you can damage it if you do it at the wrong time of day. We could see the little index is pointing at 12, so I know that this is noon, not midnight. And you'll see that acts as your AM PM indicator all day long. Now turning things over, we're going to take a look at caliber 240. This is a micro rotor automatic movement that traces its origins back to 1977. 22 carat mass on ceramic bearings for efficient winding of a 48 hour power reserve. It's got a three Hertz beat rate. All of this pivots on 27 joules. It's adjusted in six positions, one more than a standard chronometer, and it has Patek's famed gyromax free sprung regulator system for shock resistance and precise adjustment and the more modern Spyromax silicon hairspring for resistance to magnetic impacts on timing. It's a very thin and fine movement. It gives you the thinness of a manual wind because the rotor and the winding system are in the same plane as the rest of the clockwork. Also, there's no rotor and winding bridge to block your view, but you still get the convenience of automatic winding. These watches were rated from the factory, no worse than minus three plus two seconds per day, considerably better than COSC. And again, you have to love that lustrous multi-layer off-white lacquered dial with Breguet Arabic numerals. Reach out to team also at the1916company.com for purchase and pricing details.