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Sturdy Patek Philippe Ref. 5320G Replica Watches Sales With White Gold Cases

By now you’ve probably read about Patek Philippe’s new self-winding perpetual calendar, the 5320G. It’s a watch that left a really strong impression in person from the first time we saw it, reminding us of some of the best copy Patek Philippe’s most celebrated designs from the 1940s and 1950s.

Philip Barat, the Head of Technical Development at Patek Philippe, and Jasmina Steele, Public Relations Director, give us another chance to see the 5320G.

Ben shared his initial reactions and some live photos after getting a first glimpse on day one of Baselworld. He ran through the most interesting features of the watch, including its case, which falls into the Calatrava family and is inspired by ref. 2405, another perpetual calendar from 1940. Ben noted that the case has the peculiarity of being stamped to obtain the sharp lines and interesting geometry.

Patek Philippe agreed with the first bit, but felt that, while we weren’t wrong about it being stamped, we may have oversimplified the work that goes into achieving the shape and finish of the Swiss brown alligator strap Patek Philippe 5320G fake watch. Shortly after running our story, we received an invitation to come back to their booth and meet Philip Barat, the Head of Technical Development at Patek Philippe, for a closer look at how the 5320G is made. Always eager to hear more from Patek, we accepted. Here’s what we learned.

The 5320G is indeed stamped. Patek Philippe’s CEO, Mr. Stern, asked the development team to create a watch that would have “very, very straight lines,” similar to Patek’s replica watches for hot sale from the 1940s and Barat says there only two techniques can be used “to get a sharp edge between the lugs and the middle band case,” and that’s to stamp or to solder the lugs to the case, which Patek simply doesn’t do. Stamping was the only way forward then, but it’s only the first step to creating the finishing case for the 5320G. Here’s what it looks like after the initial stamp.

The monobloc case, monobloc case, stamped from a single piece of white gold.

And this is what it looks like after it more metal has been removed. “All the rest is cut off and milled,” says Barat, and then the part is sent off to the polishing department, which still has quite a lot to do before a working calibre can be put inside, and the strap is attached to the lugs. The case is entirely finished by hand.

“It’s very delicate work,” said Barat, “because when you have sharp edges, the polishing must be so soft.” It takes incredible skill to polish usual surfaces, and the popular copy watch 5320G certainly has many of those. Patek tells us that only the most skilled specialists are able to obtain the finish desired on the there three-tiered lugs for example.

The finished product is a case the likes of which we simply haven’t seen in a while from Patek, and we welcome this return to form.

So there you have it, the final word on the curious case of the 5320G fake Patek Philippe with low price online (pun very much intended). It is stamped, but it’s also a little more than that. Considerable effort goes into creating a watch which, after seeing it a second time, only impresses us more.

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Appreciate Vintage Fake Longines Watches From The Longines Museum

A very exciting package showed up recently. Despite a lot of good watches making their way, rarely do we have the opportunity to spend any time with museum pieces outside of glass cases and museum walls. But Longines had a nice little surprise for us. Each of the three classic Longines replica watches sales online in this special roll offered up a side of the brand’s past that definitely deserves to be examined. We’ve got watches delivered to Argentina, Italy, and Mexico, the first in 1919 and the last in 1967, two chronographs, one time-and-date. Let’s get into it.

1910s Mono-Pusher Chronograph

In many ways, this piece from 1919 shows that the time of pocket watches was not long gone. The lugs of the Swiss copy watches with gold cases are small and narrow, as they were on the first converted wristwatches. However, there is one element that proves a full transition to wristwatches: the crown placement at three o’clock, instead of the 12 o’clock position used for pocket watches.

The crown does come with one secret, as it is the single control for the chronograph. Before Breitling came up with idea to use two separate pushers (start/stop for the first and reset for the second), this is how chronographs all operated. If the crown does everything related to the chronograph, how can someone set the time? This is where the small pusher placed above steps in, as holding it down will switch the crown to its setting function.

White enamel dial with radium numerals.

This type of mono-pusher was not restricted to Longines, and many similar-looking examples from Eberhard, Universal Genève, and Vacheron Constantin can be found. The white enamel dial and cathedral hands are characteristic of the early 20th century, while the painted numerals are lumed with radium (this was some 40 years before the less dangerous tritium made its way into watches). The 35mm case is made out of solid 18k gold and has an officer’s caseback, which allows you to see the awesome chronograph caliber 13.33Z.

The 35mm case of the best Logines fake watch might be gold plated here, but no expense was spared in the manufacturing of the Conquest, which got the most advanced automatic calibers (caliber 290 without date, caliber 291 with date and caliber 292/294 with date and power reserve complication) through the 1960s and also featured lavish casebacks. The applied indexes bring a lot of balance to the two-tone dial, which shows an attractive mirrored ring adjacent to the minute track.

The date placement at 12 o’clock of the present reference 9026 might be unusual, but it really manages to preserve the right balance of the design, while the previous generation of Conquest Calendars (the references 9004, 9005, 9007 and 9008, all using the caliber 19ASD) showed a date window strangely located near the center of the dial, next to the index at three o’clock. The tower shape of the hands is also a quirky feature from the vintage Conquest Automatic.

Characteristic enamel painting on the caseback.

The green enamel painting on the back indicates a stainless steel or gold-plated case, while the cases in solid gold get a blue painting of the sea. This small detail shows the attention brought to the Conquest line, one of the most exclusive from Longines at the time. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that the Conquest is still produced to this day, and that stable replica Longines Conquest recently brought back the vintage design of the Conquest Calendar (which was even adopted by James Bond’s boss).

1960s Longines Chronograph Ref. 7412

Longines is particularly well-known for the exquisite chronograph calibers that it manufactured, and particularly the caliber 13ZN and its evolution, the 30CH. From 1936 until the 1970s, both calibers offered a flyback complication: this allows you to instantly reset the chronograph through a simple press on the lower pusher, instead of stopping the chronograph first. While it seems like a small operating change, it is actually a complex mechanical modification, and an essential function for obtaining the most accurate timing of successive intervals (important in aerial navigation, for instance).

The popular fake Longines chronograph reference 7412 relies on the 30CH and was first produced in the late 1950s. It can be found in several catalogs from Longines (for the German-speaking, English-speaking and Italian-speaking markets). There, it is consistently presented alongside the reference 7414, which was almost 40% more expensive given its solid gold case (the reference 7412 always comes with a stainless steel case). The square pushers preserves its dressy image while the larger sibling reference 7413 in steel shows sportier pump pushers and a screw-down caseback.

Very legible scales printed on the dial.

As often seen on chronographs, the dial displays several tracks to offer different interpretations of a measured time. The telemeter allows you to compute the distance from an event, based on the speed of sound; it proved very useful on battlefields to calculate how far an artillery battery was, from the difference between the visible flash of the cannon firing, and the moment one heard the sound. The Base 1,000 tachymeter has a more peaceful mission, as it serves to figure out the speed of a moving object between two set points. Therefore, if you make one mile in 30 seconds, you can instantly read your 100 mph speed on the watch. While all this is clearly astute and useful, Longines managed to make the legibility optimal in choosing bright blue and red for these two external scales.

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Two Special Fake Blancpain Métiers D’Art Shakudō Watches For You To Appreciate

Two new vivid dials show off the traditional Japanese metalworking craft.

At Baselworld this year, we saw two really remarkable unique pieces from Blancpain’s Métiers d’Art workshops. These red gold cases Blancpain Métiers D’Art Shakudō copy watches were made to show off the Japanese craft of working with an alloy known as shakudō, which is a mixture of gold and copper that traditionally was used for sword fittings, such as the tsuba (handguard) and menuki (a decorative element found on the grip). Shakudō was generally used only on smaller metal objects, due to the cost of the gold in the alloy, and it can be combined with a compound known as rokusho, which includes copper acetates, chlorides, and sulfates, to produce a wide range of decorative patinas.

As we all probably know, this is the Year Of The Rooster; I’ve seen a number of thematic watches related to the Chinese Zodiac over the years but this one is definitely one of the most successful. The rooster is quite powerfully done and the combination of low relief sculpture and very rich patination from the combination of shakudō and rokushō really adds to the effect of the charming copy Blancpain watch with high-end Swiss movement.

I’ve read that one of the virtues associated traditionally with the Rooster is punctuality (the whole crowing at dawn thing) which seems especially appropriate for a watch; this particular rooster certainly seems to be glaring at you as if to dare you to be late. There’s a real sense of animal vigor in the metalwork – often, engraved dials or dials with designs in metal relief can seem a bit static but this guy looks ready to jump right out at you, and he certainly has the general air of you-talkin’-to-me one associates with the rooster.

Everything is very naturally rendered, including the feathers, and there’s a wonderful quality of immediacy and realism.

The movements in both unique replica watches online are the same: the Blancpain caliber 13R3A, which is an eight day, hand-wound movement, with an indication for the power reserve built into the movement plate.

The second of the two dark brown alligator straps Blancpain fake watches sales has a motif I would bet fifty thousand Nivarox balance springs you’ve never heard of (well, I hadn’t anyway).  This particular dial is an homage to Swiss culture and depicts something called “The Battle Of The Queen Cows,” which takes place every year in the Val d’Hérens, in the canton of Valais. Valais has extremely mountainous terrain (the Matterhorn’s there) and the cows shown have short legs, great endurance, powerful physiques, and a combative, territorial streak. Once a year they get to blow off steam in the village of Aproz, before ascending 3,000 meters to their summer pastures.

The “Battle Of The Queen Cows” is not a bullfight – the cows don’t attempt to gore each other with their horns and a fight, when it occurs, is for dominance in the herd rather than to inflict injury. Generally the way it works, apparently, is that a couple of potential rivals are allowed to give each other the stink-eye until they decide they dislike the cut of each other’s jib enough to mix it up. Despite their impressive armament, the actual fight is relatively sedate – the two cows put their foreheads together and engage in a shoving match until one or the other decides the game is not worth the candle, and wanders off. Herdsmen watch the animals carefully and if it looks like someone might get hurt, the cows are disengaged (these are valuable animals after all, and what’s wanted is good clean fun, not personal injury).

 As with the rooster, there’s quite a lot of raw animal spirits captured in the metalwork – the cows have a wonderful archaic quality that reminds me a little bit of Paleolithic cave paintings, and the sense of power they radiate makes you take the whole thing a little bit more seriously than you might otherwise take something called “The Battle Of The Queen Cows.”
In the background, between the combatants, is a representation of the Matterhorn. These two timepieces really seem as if they’re meant to work together as a set – price is $160,600 for each top replica Blancpain watch. They’re both examples of a type of metal craft you certainly don’t see very often in horology, with great execution in everything from the engraving itself, to the patination characteristic of shakudō work.