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Model reference: 5738G-001
Patek Philippe Golden Ellipse ref. 5738G-001: a 34.5 x 39.5 mm elliptical case, a sunburst olive green dial with applied baton markers, and two hands with no date and no seconds hand.
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About this watch
The 5738G-001 is the Golden Ellipse in its olive green form: an elliptical case measuring 34.5 mm across and 39.5 mm from end to end, a sunburst olive green dial, applied baton markers, and two hands with nothing in their way. The four frames below are shown as they arrived — the watch straight on, the same watch turned at an angle, the dial close up, and then the back of the case.
The frames settle the outside of the watch: the green sunburst under the maker and city lettering, the baton markers, the ribbed crown on the right flank, the green strap stitched in white, and a solid back with no glass in it. What a photograph of one example cannot settle is what the individual watch is actually made from or fitted with — the metal of its case, the movement inside it, the strap supplied with it — so those are carried down to the questions at the end of the page rather than written into it.
Yes — the 5738G-001 carries two hands and nothing else. There is no date window, no seconds hand and no subdial, so the only parts moving on the dial are the hour and the minute hand, and the sunburst finish on the olive green surface reads as the main feature of the watch rather than as a backdrop behind apertures.
The frames bear that layout out. A slim applied baton marker stands at each hour position and nothing interrupts the run of them, the maker and city sit in two lines above the centre, and there is no aperture below the centre to break the symmetry of the ellipse. If you want to see how quiet the dial is in the metal, ask for a straight-on photograph taken in daylight, because a dark background exaggerates the reflections on a green surface.
The dial is olive green with a sunburst finish: fine rays run outward from the centre toward the markers, so the surface shifts from a lighter olive where the light catches it to a deep green elsewhere. The close-up frame shows that movement of colour across a single dial better than the straight-on frame does.
That frame also fixes the furniture: the maker's name over the city in two lines above the centre, a slim applied baton marker at each hour, narrow hands, and a plain polished rim with no graduations on it. Ask for the dial photographed at an angle as well as straight on, since the rays run and the shade changes with the position of the camera, and a green dial on a black background always reads darker than it will on the wrist.
The reference measures 5.9 mm from the outside of the glass to the back of the case, and published specification tables describe it as the thinnest reference in the current Golden Ellipse collection. On a case this size, that number is most of the reason the ellipse reads as a flat disc rather than as a box.
Behind it is the movement the reference is designed around: calibre 240, an ultra-thin self-winding calibre of 2.53 mm with a 22K gold off-centre minirotor and a minimum of 48 hours of power reserve. Those are reference design figures, not a statement about what is inside any particular watch. Thinness also shows in how the case meets the strap — the leather sits flush against the case in the frames with no visible gap between leather and metal, which is what a back this shallow allows.
It wears smaller than the longer figure suggests. The 39.5 mm is the length of the case along the wrist and 34.5 mm is the width across it, so the ellipse covers less of the arm than a round case of the same length would, and the polished sides leave no bezel step to add visual bulk.
Length and width never answer a fit question by themselves, though. The distance between the lugs, the thickness of the actual watch and the way the strap leaves the case decide where it sits on the wrist, and those belong to the individual watch rather than to the reference. Send your wrist measurement and we will set the dimensions of the offered watch against it.
Patek Philippe documents the reference on a shiny olive green calfskin strap with a prong buckle listed in white gold. The frames show a green strap stitched in white, fitted flush against the case, and a pale lining on the inner face carrying the maker's name and a small cross motif.
What no photograph here can tell you is which strap is supplied with the individual watch, or what the buckle in the box is actually made from. Ask for the strap length, the number of holes and the buckle material, and for a photograph of the strap laid out flat with the buckle closed: that one frame answers all three questions at once.
They run in a fixed order: the watch straight on, then turned at an angle so the flank of the case and the crown are visible, then the dial close up for the printing and the markers, then the back of the case.
Read that way, the frames answer questions about the outside of the watch — the colour and finish of the dial, the profile of the elliptical case, the stitched green strap. They cannot answer anything about the inside or about the individual piece: what the case metal actually is, which movement is fitted, the measured weight, and the water-resistance state of the watch being offered. Those belong in the questions at the end of this page rather than in claims on it.
Specification
| Detail | Description |
|---|---|
| Model reference | 5738G-001 |
| Model size | 34.5 x 39.5 mm, elliptical case |
| Dial | Sunburst olive green |
| Dial print | Maker and city in two lines above the centre, as photographed |
| Hour-marker layout | One applied marker per hour, no numerals |
| Hour markers | Applied baton-style markers, listed in white gold for the reference |
| Hand arrangement | Slim hour and minute hands over the centre; no seconds hand |
| Bezel design | Plain polished rim, no step or scale |
| Bezel graduations | None |
| Date display | None |
| Subdial layout | None |
| Colour combination | Olive green dial on a polished case with a green stitched strap, as photographed |
| Case thickness (reference design) | 5.9 mm |
| Case metal (reference design) | White gold, as documented for the reference |
| Strap shown | Green leather with white stitching, as photographed |
| Strap (reference supply) | Shiny olive green calfskin with a prong buckle listed in white gold |
| Movement (reference design) | Calibre 240, self-winding, 2.53 mm, 22K gold off-centre minirotor, minimum 48 hours of power reserve |
| Case back | Solid back with no glass or movement visible, as photographed |
| Water resistance (reference design) | 30 m as documented for the reference |
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