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Calatrava Pilot Travel Time

The Calatrava Pilot Travel Time takes the round case and puts a pilot’s dial in it: large applied Arabic numerals filled with luminescent coating, a broad baton minute hand, and a dial that answers two questions at once — the time where you are and the time at home. The controls follow that idea. The crown sits on the right of the case in the usual place; the two correctors that move the local-time hour hand forward and back in one-hour steps sit on the left, at eight and ten o’clock. The reference in this collection is rose gold, 42 mm, on a leather strap.

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Brown pilot’s dial straight on in a rose-gold case, with large applied Arabic numerals, two time-zone markings above the centre, a date register above six o’clock and a leather strap below
  • Two time zones Local time and home time on one dial, with the local hour moved in one-hour steps from the case flank instead of through the crown.
  • Controls Crown at three o’clock, two correctors on the left of the case at eight and ten o’clock.
  • Dial Applied Arabic numerals with luminescent coating over a sunburst brown surface, with a date register above six o’clock.
  • Size 42 mm across, on a leather strap with a prong buckle as catalogued for the reference.

In this collection

One Calatrava Pilot configuration

The Patek Philippe brand page

This collection lists a small number of configurations. Series not shown here can still be discussed — send the model and reference and availability is checked for you.

Design notes

What defines the Calatrava Pilot

A dial built for reading quickly

Pilot’s dials are designed to be legible at a glance and in poor light, and this one follows that rule: the numerals are large and applied rather than printed, the minute hand is a broad baton so it cannot be confused with the hour hand, and the day/night indication tells you whether the other time zone is in daylight or in darkness. That last detail is the practical one. Without it, a traveller setting the watch at midnight local time has no way of knowing whether the date mechanism is being asked to move at a safe moment.

What a two-time-zone page has to explain

A travel-time watch is easy to describe and easy to misdescribe. The useful page separates three things: which hand belongs to which zone, what each corrector does when it is pressed, and what the date follows — local time or home time. Two of those can be read off the dial in a photograph; the third is a question for the seller, together with the strap actually supplied. Both are kept separate on the watch page, where the reference’s documented configuration and the photographed watch are named as such.

These notes describe the design as it appears in the photographs on this site. Movement, water resistance, weight and material composition are not stated here, because those belong to the specific unit being offered and are confirmed in the conversation before anything is paid.

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Other series and guides

Other Patek Philippe series here

  • Nautilus — The porthole case with its softened octagonal bezel, offered here in rose gold with four dial reads and in white gold as a perpetual calendar.
  • Ladies’ Nautilus — The same porthole case in a 35.2 mm ladies’ size, with a bezel set all the way round with small stones and a golden brown opaline dial.
  • All Patek Philippe series — the brand page lists every series in this collection.

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