Patek Philippe Annual Calendar Moonphase Storage In the 1960s the fashion

In the 1960s the fashion was for sporty chronographs with large

and the first chronograph with built-in worldtimer

date windows at 3:00 have become commonplace

an economic depression that shook every pillar of the economy and sent the unemployment rate skyrocketing to nearly 19 percent

with a wide variation in case shape and dial design

Patek Philippe Annual Calendar Moonphase Storage In the 1960s the fashionThe Annual Calendar is a complication invented by Patek Philippe. While it plays second string to the perpetual calendar in the minds of most collectors, the reality is that the construction of the annual calendar mechanism is equally challenging, and in some cases, requires even more components. The Reference 5035 was Patek's first Annual Calendar model launched in 1996, and set the bar for all that followed including those from competitors. The