mong the bounty of Watches and Wonders releases from Patek Philippe this year, the watch that took the lion’s share of attention was the Annual Calendar Travel Time Ref. 5326G where two of Patek’s most emblematic complications — and also two of the most practical — were put together for the first time: the landmark gear-based annual calendar from 1996 and the dual time zone function that was revived in the collection in 1997. It goes without saying that combining both complications in one movement involves synchronizing local time and the date but, particularly for Patek, it also entailed an obsessive
