Travel watches are a great idea, until you struggle with setting your second time zone. Patek Philippe’s Calatrava Pilot Travel Time presented an elegant solution to that issue when it debuted in 2015. Armed with an ingenious pusher mechanism (the one at 8 o’clock moves your local time forward an hour, the one at 10 o’clock moves it back an hour), its movement allowed you to instantly change the time without stopping the seconds hand.
The original white gold Ref. 5524G-001 from 10 years ago has now been retired, and replaced with the version you see here. It features a surprisingly legible ivory lacquer dial, with substantial indexes crafted from blackened white gold and filled with luminescent coating. The solid sword-shaped hands, also lumed, indicate local time, while the skeletonized hour hand represents home time. Both time zones have day-or-night indicators, and the self-winding 26-330 S C FUS caliber automatically changes the date to local time when you adjust the hours. If only it could track your luggage.
Case Size: 42 mm
Case Material: White gold
Power Reserve: 45 hours
Strap: Khaki green composite
Price: $60,922
From the article by Paige Reddinger, Oren Hartov, Victoria Gomelsky, Carol Besler, Justin Fenner
