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People who like skeleton watches with engraved movements for sure will adore the newly introduced Patek Philippe Calatrava watch. This watch is really marvelous. If you ask an admirer of Patek Philippe what the best watch of this brand is, you will listen to a long list of models and no doubt this list will contain the new Patek Philippe Calatrava skeletonized watch.

The watch features the outstanding Patek Philippe 240 Caliber movement that has already become an exemplar in its regular form. This movement is perfection itself, since it has been open worked to an extraordinary degree. It does leave only the bare minimum of structures that are required to support gears and wheels of the mechanism.

The watch is perfect from both technical and aesthetic points of view. This timepiece features miniature and intricate engravings on every surface that have been performed with great skill.
Watch connoisseurs will agree that the most beautiful parts of the new Patek Philippe Calatrava Ref. 5180/1 are these: the pierced mainspring barrel decorated with the famous Calatrava Cross symbol as well as the fine support for the 22 k microrotor whose delicacy can be compared with the one of a spiderweb.
The 18K white gold case of Patek Philippe Calatrava skeleton watch greatly emphasizes the transparency of the mechanism. The case that features pierced design and blue colored sapphire crystal ring compliments the craftsmanship of the great Patek 240 SQU movement.

Those who prefer watches of other design rather than skeletons will be glad to know that this year Patek Philippe presents a new watch collection that comprises watches whose dials are decorated with the very complicated colored enamel technique called cloisonne. Together with other Swiss watch brands Patek Philippe mastered cloisonne. Only the most experienced craftsman can decorate dials with unique pictures.

First the designer draws a volumetric picture that then is filled with enamel whose composition is kept under a strict secret. The dial of the watch is then put in a special oven for quite a long time where being influenced by high temperatures the enamel acquires the needed color. As the result the dials of the mechanical masterpieces by Patek Philippe get decorated with traditional for such models pictures – exotic animals, birds and others.

Patek Philippe watches are popular in all over the world with both ordinary people and celebrities, including presidents. Among clients of the company there are Queen Victoria, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates and ex-Russian president Vladimir Putin who wears on his wrist white gold Patek Philippe Perpetual Calendar that costs $ 60000. Watches by Patek Philippe are justly considered ones of the world’s most prestigious watches, because this brand focuses all its efforts on production of watches whose every single detail can be described as perfect.