Bob L.
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The “Standard” 5970s
Over the years, there have been a handful of special, highly limited versions of the Patek 5970 — rose gold with black dial, white gold with salmon dial, and likely a few others. But the “standard” versions are wonderful in their own right. To me, the 5970 is perhaps the perfect classic watch: big enough, but not too big; ample complication while remaining very legible; sculpted lugs without being overdone; etc. (This is not intended to disparage the 3970, which is also wonderful.)
Here are the four standard versions—platinum, rose, yellow, and white. Curious to hear which one is everyone’s favorite. For me, the platinum is stealthy cool, but the white gold is supremely versatile. So, impossible to choose!
The “Standard” 5970s
Over the years, there have been a handful of special, highly limited versions of the Patek 5970 — rose gold with black dial, white gold with salmon dial, and likely a few others. But the “standard” versions are wonderful in their own right. To me, the 597...
I wonder why the platinum dial is the only
one to feature the 120 marking on the tachymeter scale. And I think my choice would be yellow gold. Wonderful quartet. Best, Emmanuel
P was the last series
So I think they rejigged the dial abit.. “Swiss” was moved to the outer ring and that left more space for 120 tachymeter.. they also changed the date fonts.. in the P, the date font is abit larger (eg look at the 11) and so the 7 in 27 and the 2 in 29 was...
Oh, yes, well spotted! I much prefer the original smaller font.
Not a thing I immediately noticed, but now that you point it out... It makes me even more drawn to the J variant...
J is lovely.. very classic look
here is one that I saw some time back.. Actually the gold versions all have subtly different dial if you inspect it carefully, G=acier, R=argente and J is opalin ...
Don’t understand everyone’s
fascination with platinum which seems to be the case more often than not in these “preference” surveys. Is that because it costs more? I think that has something to do with it. Platinum per ounce is half the price of an ounce of gold actually. I like plat...
I think it has to do with P being a purer alloy
P is 95% Pt alloy.. J, R, G is 75% Au alloy And also P is harder material to work with
G for me
For the versatility.. but every version has its unique character.. even all the gold versions have subtly different dials ie G is acier, R is argente and J is opaline ...
For me easily the WG model, imho the nec plus ultra Patek reference.
Would trade my 5270G-001 for it in a heartbeat, alas quite a price delta between the two nowadays. Cheers, Pieter
Wonderful set of 5970s ! Purely from a color combination perspective, I prefer
the P because of the black dial looks powerful !