It’s nearly bonfire 🔥 night , so let me start it early with some fireworks 🧨 💥 early

 

Cubitus, yes that one. There’s been a few spark ⚡️ with that one. But, if hunting season is open, then let me get the double barrel shotgun out.

WARNING ‼️: if you’re easily triggered 😤 stop ✋ now. What follows will be bloody 🩸 and likely to cause severe offence.

Let me begin with what  I love ❤️ in the recent and present catalog. This will give a perspective on my taste, how I see the brand. My favourites in the current catalogue or just discontinued include the 5230/5231, 5196, 5711/5811/5726/5712, 5396,




















There are sone beautiful grand complications that have managed to be both traditional and yet totally modern, whilst exhibiting extraordinary levels of horological complexity 







Now I will begin.

They screwed up the simple chronograph, look at these amazing pieces














We have today this







So what’s wrong? The register are in the wrong position. How could you screw that up? It makes the whole dial unbalanced and its too big. There’s an obsession with upsizing within Patek
The situation is worse in the perpetual calendar chronograph, where there is so much space in the top half snd everything is compressed in the bottom half 






There is no comparison to the classic 2499/5970/5004










Let me turn on the classic Calatrava 

Sorry but this dial is a monstrosity, if I wanted a camera , I’d buy a bloody camera 📷 





Then there is the 6007




They did a Panerai here, you don’t make a limited edition then pump out virtually the same model 
Then oh my goodness gracious, 6119- no soul, the 5196 kills it. Oversized, unrefined. Just to please the sub dial 6 brigade, who think the Calatrava only ever existed as the ref 96. Virtually all automatic and many manual movements had the seconds sub dial above the six o’clock position










Then lets look at the perpetual calendar 
Have a look at how unbalanced the whole watch is compared to the 3949/5140




All for the sake of making the watch more larger 
The minute repeater isn’t any better 




Compared to this 






Compare this hideous annual calendar. It’s truly a watch that really doesn’t know what it’s actually trying to accomplish, neither dress neither sports, it does atleast meet the non binary standards 





Im not going to spare the Nautilus either. The 5990 is ugly and ungainly it’s proportions are completely awol, the chrono pushers are so awkward placed





How to screw up potentially a  magnificent piece… take a great sized watch and screw it up by making it larger 




So, the question 🙋🏽‍♂️ you should all be asking is if Ive lost my mind 

By making this post I have given my genuine thoughts on many pieces, thoughts I kept to myself till now, but here is the point- all of these watches sell and sell well enough, the watches I stated at the beginning as the ones that I like, have probably not been as successful such as the ref 5230,5396 etc
Patek needs to evolve. It evolves for the current crop of collectors, not me. For them it’s on point,
We all have the right to express ourselves but doesn’t mean we are always right, just because I am a dinosaur 🦕 and wish for old school design it doesn’t mean its right for the company 

Anyone wants this 





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