Patek Philippe’s First Watch For 2020: The Stainless Steel Calatrava 6007A-001

The Patek Philippe Stainless Steel Calatrava 6007A-001 is a limited edition designed to celebrate the brand’s new $600 million headquarters in Geneva.

Like many industries affected by the ongoing ramifications of COVID-19, the watch industry took a brief pause earlier this year with the subsequent cancellation of major watch shows. While some brands chose to move forward with virtual releases, others like Patek Philippe remained quiet on any new releases.

Now halfway through the year, the Swiss watchmaker has come forward with their first new design for 2020 – a limited edition stainless steel Calatrava created as a celebration of the completion of the brand’s new 10 story headquarters in Plan-les-Ouates, Geneva.

In keeping with the tradition of releasing a limited-edition commemorative watch to celebrate key events in Patek Philippe’s history, the 6007A-001 Calatrava pays tribute to the completion of the flagship building that not only brings all of the craftsman, suppliers and workshop under the one roof but includes a 299 seat auditorium and a restaurant for 880 patrons on the top floor.

With the Calatrava’s classic round watch face having been a staple dress watch for the brand since 1932, the latest edition Calatrava features a case and broad cambered bezel in polished steel (a rarity in itself for Patek Philippe) and is a 40mm time-and-date model with a grey-blue dial and a latticed “carbon-fiber” design at the center of the dial.

The concentric circular design of the watch face begins with the inner minute railway scale surrounding the “carbon fiber” design, followed by the white Arabic numbers with a luminous coating indicating the hours and finally the 5-minute circle on the outer.

Powered by a self-winding caliber 324 S C movement, the limited edition is also recognizable by the specially marked sapphire-crystal case back with the Calatrava cross and “New Manufacture 2019” inscribed on the back, to represent the year that Patek Philippe’s workforce moved into the new headquarters.

Limited to 1000 pieces, the Patek Philippe Stainless Steel Calatrava Ref. 6007A-001 is priced at USD $28,351 and comes with a steel-grey colored calfskin strap with white decorative stitching and a prong buckle.