Patek Philippe
Calatrava

Travel time watches are icons frome a long gone era: a time when commercial transoceanic flights were an absolute novelty, and more and more people were moving between different time zones for work or leisure. Keeping efficient track of time back home was essential to make phone calls at the office, greet your family without waking them up in the middle of the night and generally just knowing what time it was on the other side of the planet.

While some, like Rolex or even Patek with its world timers approached the matter in a spectacular way, with rotating bezels, colourful dials and names of exotic cities, other watches had a definitely understated approach to travel time keeping. It is the case of this beautiful and discreet Patek Philippe reference 2597, which at first glance might seem nothing more than a regular 570 Calatrava.

Cased in a coin-edge yellow gold case, a sharp set of Dauphine hands marks hours and minutes, while running seconds are placed at six. Then, when you need it, a click on the pushers on the left side of the case will make a third hand jump one hour back or ahead, to mark a second time zone. When you fly back home, it will go back concealed under the main hour hand, and your watch will be the ultimate everyday sleeper.