Hands-On Review: Patek Philippe Nautilus Travel Time Chronograph
A few years ago, Patek Philippe introduced a new Ref. 5980/1A with a white dial (for laymen: that?s the Nautilus Chronograph). We at Monochrome Watches were a bit surprised to discover, at Baselworld 2014, that Patek had already discontinued the steel 5980/1A model and replaced it with a steel Nautilus Chronograph with a second time zone, like the one in the Aquanaut Travel Time Ref. 5164.
That means that the 5980/1A-019 (the white-dial Nautilus Chrono) will have been in production for only two years. Since we?re talking about Patek here, productions numbers are rather low, and this reference is now a very rare bird which we expect to become very collectible. Although the other steel 5980/1A models are not as rare (but super-rare compared to a Rolex Submariner, for instance), we would not be surprised to see their prices climb now that the demand can no longer be fulfilled at Patek boutiques but only on the secondary market. But now, let’s take a look at the model that joined the Nautilus family 2014, whose additional second-time-zone function works just like the one in the aforementioned Patek Philippe Aquanaut Travel Time, introduced in 2011 (see here).
On the dial, we see the chronograph register at 6 o?clock, and, similar to that on the Aquanaut Travel Time, it features a pointer-date, positioned on the upper part of the dial. The date indication is connected to the local time, which is your travel destination. When traveling, it can be adjusted both fo...
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