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“You never actually own a patek philippe,
You merely look after it for the next generation.”
“No one can have Patek Philippe,
You are just keeping it for the next generation. ”
Previous article”Rolex Top 10 Hits, Which One is the Best Looking?” After its release, the WeChat public account, Weibo, and Toutiao comments exploded, all kinds of them. There are also many watch tour cousins who directly reply to the upper hand picture of the watch they bought, which almost includes most of the Rolex explosions mentioned. It can be seen how much cousins love Rolex. A reply caught my attention: a cousin replied with a “Panda Di” that he had just arrived, and then attached the price: 185,000… On the same day, Xiao Xun, a colleague of Watch Tour, told me that one of his aunts had just given her son a panda di, and he had reminded her that the price was too high and asked her to wait, but the aunt still bought it for nearly 190,000 yuan.
I have heard that the markup of Rolex’s steel chronograph is up to more than 190,000 yuan, but I am still quite surprised that there are still cousins who are buying a Rolex steel watch priced at a little more than 100,000 at a price of nearly 200,000, and the actual purchase price is almost twice the price!
As with the previous post, we will not comment on this.
The brand is good, everyone has their own needs. The market is there, the demand is there, whether it is deformed or not, I think it is understandable. After all, it is not a small personal choice that affects the national economy and people’s livelihood, and it cannot hurt others, and it does not even matter about “IQ tax” and other statements. The wealth that circulates will eventually be distributed to everyone. The ups and downs are only “fleeting”, not and cannot last long
。
However, when the market price is deformed, everyone should be relatively rational to enlarge their eyes, see more, and choose more. Instead of drilling a bull’s horn.
Today, I will popularize with you:
How high is the barrier to entry for Patek Philippe?
Some senior cousins may say, what is there to popularize here, don’t everyone know? In fact, ask many friends around you who know the brand of Patek Philippe, they actually do not have a clear concept of this, and some people still feel unattainable and dare not ask. Even if you are a veteran cousin of watch travel, can you tell your friends accurately? I guess most can’t.
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Patek Philippe mechanical watch entry threshold:
RMB 141,900.
thereinto
Gold watch entry model 5196J. 150,000 yuan. Formal watches.
Steel watch entry model 5167A. 141900 yuan.
(Quartz entry-level model 4910/10A.) 89700 RMB)
5196J。 Gold model.
It belongs to Patek Philippe’s famous Calatrava Calatrava collection
5167A。 Steel type.
It belongs to the Patek Philippe sports fashion model Aquanaut (commonly known as “grenade”) series
4910/10A。 Quartz watch with diamonds in steel. It belongs to the Patek Philippe women’s watch series Twenty~4. It has the lowest price of all Patek Philippe models
Patek Philippe watches are basically gold watches
。 Mainly rose and white gold, but also yellow gold and platinum. For example, gold watches account for about 84% of the existing production models. There are relatively few steel versions, only the sporty Nautilus series and Aquanaut series have more steel versions, and a few special models have steel versions. Steel models occasionally appear in complications (only 1 model is in production), and super complications are not in the production of steel watches.
Patek Philippe currently has major models and collections in production
In view of the recent hype of sports steel watches, the price is extremely high
, Patek Philippe Aquanaut5167A steel watch supply is insufficient, also in the watch bank booking for a long time, second-hand market markup to buy. Therefore, you may have found that at this stage, the Patek Philippe entry-level watch that can be bought relatively smoothly is a classic gold watch of the Patek Philippe brand:
5196J。 150,000 yuan.
The 5196J belongs to Patek Philippe’s Calatrava Calatrava collection
。 As you know, Patek Philippe’s brand logo is a “Kara Zhuohua” cross. This shows the importance of the Calatrava series to Patek Philippe.
Patek Philippe Caltrava Series 5196J. The gauge diameter is 37 mm and the price is 150,000 yuan
Price-wise, the 5196J is the entry-level
。 Patek Philippe is the top brand in the world of fine watches, also known as the “king of watches”, brand value and meticulous cost, so that most of its watches are in the two hundred thousand or more, hundreds of thousands of watches are very few. Except for the 5167A, which is now hard to come by, the 5196J is the lowest price of Patek Philippe’s mechanical watches on sale. Many people’s watch budgets can reach this price.
Functionally, the 5196J is the starting point
。 Its features include hours, minutes and seconds, which are the most indispensable to a watch, the classic “small three-hand” layout, no calendar window and other functions. The movement is hand-wound. The diameter size is 37 mm, which is a very classic high-end watch size, not the popular “big dial”.
A very pure, vintage high-end watch
The Patek Philippe 5196J, which has a simple design and is relatively affordable
150,000, gold watch, Patek Philippe
。 When some first-line brand steel watches are speculated to more than 150,000, and Patek Philippe steel watches also exceed the gold watch price, 5196J, you should know its existence.
The entry-level configuration of the 5196J may be exactly what many people need: simple design, simple watch model, simple function, simple use, classic dial size suitable for Asian wrists, noble gold material, retro manual winding feeling, the top brand…
Simple, thin, “easy” to own, easy to wear, noble gold shining
Although 5196J cannot be purchased directly in the store, you can usually receive the watch in two or three months after booking. I remember hearing before that it would take 3-7 years to order the Nautilus 5711/1A steel watch…
The 5196J is especially recommended because it is one of Patek Philippe’s most classic watches and deserves to own
。 At the same time, it has the lowest price and is relatively easy for those who buy watches to reach. It turns out that many people are afraid to buy Patek Philippe, feeling that it is too expensive and too far away from themselves, but if you are now ready to buy a steel watch with a lot of super public prices, you should consider this classic gold watch of the top brand. Unless you don’t like classic-style watches at all.
As a matter of fact
Watch lovers should usually own a Patek Philippe watch if their budget allows.
It allows you to experience the top quality of the Swiss Haute Horlogerie brand with your own eyes, the design, colours, movement, polishing, detail, precision and much more. A watch allows you to fully understand the “premium” of a fine watch and feel the qualities that a fine watch should have.
Case and movement details of the 5196
Gold is the purest and most original color of gold
。 Like myself, I like some of the gold versions of my watches. But now when watches are made of gold, more and more people like rose gold gold, that is, red gold. There is a difference in price between Patek Philippe gold watches and rose gold watches. If you prefer rose gold, the price will be a little higher, rose gold 5196 is 5196R, the price is 163000 yuan. The 5196G in white gold is the same price as the rose gold model.
Europeans and Americans feel a preference for white gold and steel a little more. Asian rose gold and gold are more suitable. Of course, this choice is also related to personal age and aesthetics.
Platinum 5196G
Red gold 5196R
The Patek Philippe 5196 is available in four models
。 There is also a platinum 5196P in the 5196 model, although the overall design is still the basis of the 5196, but the details are very different. This one is very beautiful, and very different from gold, rose gold and white gold materials, the first three indexes are bar indexes, and 5196P is Breguet digital indexes. If you look at the table picture on the Ins, I feel that Europeans and Americans prefer this platinum Patek Philippe basic watch. For example, Armani’s founder, Mr. Giorgio Amarni, wears 5196P.
Patek Philippe Calatrava Series 5196 models, a total of 4 models
Platinum 5196P
Armani’s founder, Giorgio Amarni, wears a 5196P
There are many European and American people who show off the 5196P watch on Ins
5196J is the choice of many watch lovers
。 There is a blogger on Ins, he shows many scenes of wearing 5196J in the same wearing posture in a row, the watch is the same watch, but the color and matching of the clothes are different each time, which is very interesting. Watch lovers are like this, with their favorite watch, with its company, you can appreciate it at any time like a girlfriend, it is a happy feeling. Even if there is only one watch.
watchyouwearin wears the same 5196J in different outfits
“Less is more”
The prototype model of the 5196 and the original “96” model in 1932 are the exemplary products of that era that pursued minimalism and favored the “Bauhaus” design style. Today we wear the 5196, which literally spans almost a century, both in design and aesthetics.
Of course
The 5196 is a classic hand-wound model
。 Manual winding is a traditional feeling loved by many senior cousins and collectors, and even some cousins do not buy it manually. But after all, people today are afraid of trouble, and hand-wound watches need to wind their own watches every day. Those who don’t like manual winding can choose the 5227 from Patek Philippe’s Calatrava series. Of course, the budget should be raised a lot, and the pricing of 5227 is 252700 yuan.
5227
It is a self-winding watch with a larger diameter, 37 mm for the 5196 and 39 mm for the 5227. The 5227 also comes with a calendar window and an attractive “General Bottom” case back. The white gold model with a black dial is also a classic Patek Philippe watch that sees fashion and coolness in the classic.
Patek Philippe Calatrava 5227 watch
Three 5227 models, from left: yellow, white gold, red gold
Platinum 5227G
The overall style of the 5227 watch
The “General Bottom” of the 5227 watch
5227 wearing feel
Observant friends, you may notice the “96” in the 5196J watch number.
The “96” watch is essential to the Patek Philippe brand
It is no exaggeration to say that the “96” watch is the watch that saved Patek Philippe in the 30s of the 20th century and gave Patek Philippe a rebirth.
In 1932
, Patek Philippe, the leader in the Swiss watch industry, still failed to resist the effects of the world economic crisis of 1929-1933 and almost went bankrupt. It was then that the Sternsden family, now the owners of Patek Philippe, took over Patek Philippe. It was also in that year that Patek Philippe created the first “96” watch, a high-quality watch with a simple design and affordable price (the first “96” watch was a steel watch), which helped Patek Philippe to obtain orders, win markets, obtain income and survive difficult years in turbulent times and when watches were about to replace pocket watches.
The first watch in the Calatrava collection, the Ref.96
Watch collectors wear early “96” watches
So
The significance of the “96” watch to Patek Philippe is far from being a model name
In fact, almost all Patek Philippe classic watches in the later period have more or less the shadow of the “96” watch. The Patek Philippe watch numbering system also began with the “96” watch in 1932. In 1985, Patek Philippe officially classified the classic round watch and named it
Calatrava series
, and a number of watches inspired by the “96” are included in this “family”. After “96”, there are “96” model serial numbers, such as 5196, 5296, 5396, 5496, etc., which are the “relative” family series of “96” watches. Among them, the 5196 is the closest to the “96” prototype in production.
Cara Trova 5196 has a special meaning for Patek Philippe and represents a tribute to history
。 This may be one of the reasons why Patek Philippe chose 5196 as the entry gold model among all Patek Philippe models.
Patek Philippe is producing 5396 models. Almanac. The diameter of the table is 38.5 mm, and the price is 357800 yuan
Patek Philippe is producing 5496 models. Perpetual calendar watch, 39.5 mm in diameter, priced at 794,700 yuan
Patek Philippe “96” watch
, although the diameter of the watch was only 31 mm (men’s watch size!). The larger ones are 32 mm and 33 mm), and today it is still a collection of antique watches chased by many “96” fans. The year 1932, when “96” was created, was also a crucial year in Patek Philippe’s history. There are many wonderful stories and characters to share with you, and we will expand on them next time.
Agency Patek Philippe advertising in the 1930s. Patek Philippe was truly aware that the era of watches had come
Today I will mainly tell you about it
Patek Philippe’s 5196 is relatively easy to reach
A classic luxury watch you can own
Classic, classic, elegant
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