This here Patek Philippe, what they call a Calatrava 5088/100P-001, is somethin’ else. I hear folks talkin’ ’bout it, sayin’ it’s a real fancy watch. Some kind of remake, I guess.
They say it costs more than my whole house! One fella said it was over one hundred thousand dollars. Can you believe that? For a watch! Another fella said you could buy it used for around $85,000, it’s not as much as new but still a lot of money, I don’t have that kind of money.
Now, I ain’t no expert on these fancy things, but I hear this Patek Philippe Calatrava is somethin’ special. They say people like to collect ’em, like some folks collect them old stamps or them porcelain dolls. This one here, the 5088/100P-001, I guess it’s one of them real popular ones. They called it the current production model or something.
- Big Money Watches:
- Nautilus
- Aquanaut
- Calatrava
- Grand Complications
I heard some talk ’bout other Patek Philippe watches too. Somethin’ called a Nautilus 5711, and another one called an Aquanaut 5167. They say them two are real hard to find, and they cost a pretty penny. Like, a lot. More than this Calatrava 5088, I reckon. There is another one named Nautilus 5811, and it’s a blue one, they call it “Tiffany”. It costs 6.5 million dollars in New York in 2021!
They say this Calatrava 5088 has a platinum case. Platinum! That’s that real shiny, expensive metal, ain’t it? Thirty-eight millimeters, they said. And it’s thin, only 8.3 millimeters thick. Sounds fancy, don’t it? And there’s somethin’ they call a sapphire-crystal back, but I don’t know about that.
The front of the watch, what they call the dial, is all fancy-like. Hand-engraved, they say. With black enamel. Sounds like somethin’ you’d see in a museum, not on your wrist. I saw some pictures, it looks complicated, but they said it’s beautiful. It seems like 22 watches have that look, not that bad, huh?
And the insides, the whatchamacallit, the movement, is somethin’ special too. They call it a caliber 240, ultra-thin, and self-winding. I don’t know what all that means, but it sounds expensive. And it can run for 48 hours without you windin’ it, that’s good. I guess that’s a long time for a watch.
Now, I don’t know why anyone would need a watch that costs more than a house. But I guess some folks like that kind of thing. Me, I’m happy with my old clock on the wall. It tells the time just fine. But this Patek Philippe Calatrava 5088/100P-001, it sure is somethin’ to talk about, ain’t it?
Some folks say these Patek Philippe watches are good for, what they say, investin’. Like puttin’ your money in a safe place, so it grows. I don’t know if it is true. Some people say it’s even better than gold. I just keep my few dollars under my mattress. Seems safer to me.
They got all kinds of these Calatrava watches. Dozens, they say. All different. Some older, some newer. But this 5088/100P-001, that’s the one everyone’s talkin’ ’bout right now. Some place called Chrono24 has a lot of these watches, but I don’t know about that, I can’t trust these online things.
I saw somethin’ about auctions, too. Where they sell these fancy watches to the highest bidder. They had six of these Calatrava 5088 watches at these auctions. That’s a lot of money.
Well, I guess that’s all I know ’bout this Patek Philippe Calatrava 5088/100P-001. It’s a lot to take in, ain’t it? All this talk about fancy watches and big money. Like I said, I’m happy with my old clock. But it’s interestin’ to hear about these things, I suppose. This Patek Philippe, it’s a whole different world, ain’t it? You can see that it’s a rich man’s toy, not for us people. I am just happy to have a roof on my head.
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