![]() ![]() The Calatrava Pilot Alarm Travel Time 5520P had a pair of pushers on both sides of the case maybe applying the same design to a lesser complicated watch was deemed ungraceful by Patek. But you’ll still need a pen or small tool to operate them. For the date, there is a corrector on the top side of the case, and the left pushers, so practical on the 5524, were replaced by slightly larger than usual correctors, perhaps to make use of them less stressful. You must be wondering how the local time (and date) are adjusted on this watch, as it has the travel time function found in the non-chronograph reference 5524, where there were pushers on the left side of the case to perform the easy setting. The day and night indications for the local and home time are appropriately marked, the gold applied numerals with luminescent coating are consistent with the rest of the series, with indices at 6 and 12 almost wholly “eaten” by superimposed subdials – and I feel very sorry for that poor 12. ![]() On the dial, we have four hands to read the local and home time (solid sword-shaped hands for the local hours and minutes, skeletonised is for the home hours) and date indication there is a central seconds hand for the flyback chronograph, and the indicator with the 60-minute chrono counter at 6 o’clock. ![]() The crown and the prominent chronograph push-pieces at 2 to start/stop and at 4 o’clock to reset/flyback add to the feeling of handling a large watch. The size is not ideal by modern standards, but the Calatrava Pilot series appeal to more confident and capable wrists. The 5924G white gold case is 42mm wide and 13,05mm thick, with 30m water resistance, which is not a lot, meaning it is ok to withstand moisture from splashes, but then again, pilots, as a rule, avoid landing in the water while wearing gold watches. There are two dials, the sunburst blue-grey and the lacquered khaki green, with dial elements and straps supporting the base dial colour of each variant. With the new Calatrava Pilot Travel Time Chronograph 5924G, what you see, is what you get. We spent enough time with the new Reference 5924G to begin to accept it, and hope you will agree that these are cool sporty- ish watches, for the least. The Pilot style series is expanding its reach with two recently added Calatrava Pilot Travel Time Chronograph models. So you better get used to these not-so-Patek-ish – whatever this means – timepieces. Still, the new aesthetic introduced by Patek Philippe in 2015, with a nod to a historical 1936 model called the “hour angle dial” (a unique watch with unique features and an hour hand making one trip around the dial in 24 hours), is here to stay. The inaugural reference, the variants to follow, including the now-discontinued 7234, and the 2019 Calatrava Pilot Alarm Travel Time 5520P, with its four protruding pushers, continue to look slightly odd compared to the rest of the Calatrava watches. It was the unexpected Travel Time 5524G, a watch that caused a lot of discussions, mainly due to its controversial appearance and a confusing attachment to the Calatrava family. It has been eight years since Patek Philippe launched a Pilot-style watch. ![]()
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