Pre-Owned
Patek Philippe

Patek Philippe Annual Calendar Flyback Chronograph

40930978/AS12074 42 mm
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Regular price $89,500

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Patek Philippe Annual Calendar Flyback Chronograph - (Ref. 40930978/AS12074) Product Details

The annual calendar is one of those quietly brilliant complications — the kind that reveals its genius the longer you live with it. Invented and patented by Patek Philippe in the 1990s, it elegantly bridges the gap between simple calendar watches and their more complex perpetual counterparts. Accounting for months of varying lengths, it requires correction just once a year, at the end of February — a small marvel of mechanical logic disguised as everyday convenience.

But this is no ordinary annual calendar. The Reference 5905P-001 pairs that ingenuity with a flyback chronograph, allowing thewearer to reset and restart the timing function with a single push. It’s a complication born from utility — timing laps, intervals,moments that matter — yet here it’s executed with the kind of refinement only Patek can deliver. The result is a watch that feels as technically accomplished as it is visually composed.

Housed in a 42mm platinumcase, this example features a rich blue dial that shifts beautifully in the light, anchored by applied indices and a crisp white minute track framing the chronograph register. The layout is classic Patek: day, date, and month displayed across the top, with a running seconds indication subtly integrated above six. The luminous obelisk hands complete the look, balancing legibility with elegance.

Turn the watch over, and the automatic Calibre CH 28-520 QA 24H comes into viewthrough a sapphire caseback — a movement that perfectly encapsulates the brand’s approach to high watchmaking: technically sophisticated, immaculately finished, and built to last generations. Paired with a blue alligator strap and platinum pin buckle, and offeredwith its full complement of original accessories, this is a piece that delivers on every level.

Complicated without being complicated to live with, which, in many ways, is the ultimate luxury.

General

Condition

Pre-owned

Brand

Patek Philippe

Reference

40930978/AS12074

Family

Annual Calendar Annual Calendar

Product Code

40930978

Features

Automatic movement

Case

Case Size

42 mm

Case Shape

Round

Case Material

Platinum

Bezel Material

Platinum

Dial

Dial Color

Blue

Movement

Type

Auto

Bracelet

Type

Strap

Bracelet Material

Alligator