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Model reference: 5524R-001
Patek Philippe Calatrava Pilot Travel Time 5524R-001 in rose gold: a 42 mm case, a brown dial with applied Arabic numerals, a date subdial and two time zones.
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About this watch
The 5524R-001 is the Calatrava Pilot Travel Time in rose gold: a 42 mm round case, a brown sunburst dial over a sandblasted brass base, applied gold Arabic numerals filled with luminescent coating, and a date subdial above six o’clock. The photographs show that dial straight on, at an angle and close up, and they show the controls on both flanks of the case — the crown at three o’clock and the two push-pieces on the left.
The frames settle the layout: the maker and city lettering above the centre, LOCAL and HOME beside it with a small round indication under each, a printed minute track at the rim, and the date scale printed 1 to 31 with 31 in red. What they cannot settle is what the individual watch is built from or fitted with — the metal of its case, which movement is inside it, which of the reference’s two straps is supplied, and whether it has been tested for water resistance — so those become questions in the inquiry rather than claims on this page.
The dial carries two hour readings rather than two dials. The local-time hour hand is moved forward and back in one-hour steps by the two push-pieces on the left of the case, at eight and ten o’clock, so you can reset the local hour without stopping the watch and without touching the crown.
Home time keeps running on its own throughout, and the reference also shows the day/night state of home time, so you can tell whether the other zone is in daylight or darkness before you call it. The date follows local time, which is what keeps the calendar changing with the day you are actually living rather than the one back home.
That subdial is the date register. Its scale is printed around the outside of the small disc at its centre and runs from 1 to 31, with the 31 marking picked out in red at the top, and a hand travels the scale as the month advances. It is a date, not a month or a second time zone, read the way you would read a date aperture, only on a longer track.
Because the date follows local time, this is the hand to watch when you cross a time-zone boundary: it moves with the local date rather than the home date. On a dial of this size the register is easy to pick out, but the scale is short, so ask for a straight-on frame of the subdial in daylight if you want to check how the printing and the red 31 sit on the brown surface.
Forty-two millimetres is the size of this reference, and the pilot layout gives it visual weight: the numerals are large, the hands are broad, and the case carries four controls with the crown on the right and the two push-pieces on the left.
Diameter on its own never answers a fit question. Lug-to-lug length, case thickness and how the strap leaves the lugs decide where the case sits, and those numbers belong to the individual watch rather than to the reference. Send us your wrist measurement and we can tell you how the dimensions of the actual watch compare with it.
The dial is brown over a sandblasted brass base, and the finish shifts with the light: flat and dark in the straight-on frame, warmer where the angled and the close-up frames catch it. The Arabic numerals are applied and filled with luminescent coating, and the minutes are printed at the rim, outside them.
The frames also show how much of the dial is given over to reading points: the maker and city lettering above the centre, LOCAL and HOME on either side with a small round indication beneath each, the date register above six, and the printed minute ring. Ask for a straight-on dial photograph in daylight if you want to judge the brown yourself, because a black background changes how a dark dial reads.
Patek Philippe lists the 5524R-001 on a leather strap with a prong buckle, and the reference’s second strap is a khaki calfskin. The photographs show one brown leather strap with light stitching; they do not show the khaki one, and they cannot tell you which strap the individual watch will arrive on.
So the strap is a question rather than a given: ask which of the two is supplied, whether the second one comes with the watch, and what the buckle is made from. Strap length and the number of holes matter as much as the material, because a 42 mm case changes where the strap sits on the wrist; a photograph of the strap laid flat with the buckle closed answers both at once.
Each frame answers a different question. The straight-on frame fixes the dial colour, the numeral style and the position of the two push-pieces; the three-quarter frame shows the shape of the case flank and how the lugs meet the strap; the dial close-up shows the printing and the date scale; and the last frame looks at the back of the case, where the opening shows the working parts with the strap turned away.
Work through them in that order and you have most of what a still image can give you. What they leave open is everything behind the dial and inside the case, which is why the last frame matters more for what it prompts you to ask than for what it shows: what the case and the push-pieces are actually made from, which movement is fitted, and whether the watch has been tested for water resistance.
Specification
| Detail | Description |
|---|---|
| Model reference | 5524R-001 |
| Model size | 42 mm, round case |
| Dial | Brown sunburst over a sandblasted brass base |
| Dial print | Maker and city above the centre; LOCAL and HOME beside it; minute track at the rim |
| Hour-marker layout | Applied Arabic numerals filled with luminescent coating; a small rectangular index at six o’clock |
| Hand arrangement | Broad baton hour and minute hands over the centre; a small hand serving the date subdial |
| Date display | Subdial above six o’clock, scale printed 1 to 31 with 31 in red |
| Bezel design | Smooth round bezel, no scale or graduations |
| Colour combination | Brown dial and brown leather strap with a warm gold-tone case |
| Strap shown | Brown leather with light stitching, as photographed |
| Clasp | Prong buckle |
| Case back | Round back with a central opening, as photographed |
| Movement (reference design) | Two-time-zone design: local hour stepped by the two case push-pieces |
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