Calatrava

The reference 3923 belongs to the final generation of Patek Philippe's classic manual-wind Calatravas, made through the 1980s before the line turned towards complication. Its yellow gold case is round and thin, with simple straight lugs and a low, quiet bezel that leaves the whole of the dial to the eye. Slim baton markers and a small seconds sub-dial at six keep the face spare, in the manner the house had refined for fifty years. Collectors seek it as the last pure expression of that formula, a dress watch made without a single gesture of display.