Patek Philippe introduces gorgeous green watches for 2022

Since its debut in 1999 as Patek Philippe’s first collection created specifically for women, Twenty~4 has been a solid and steady hit. Taking cues from Deco design with its two-tiered rectangular case accentuated with sparkling lines of brilliant-cut diamonds running down its sides, the style — as its name implies — can be dressed up or down to move seamlessly from day to evening.

But how do you keep a classic looking fresh and timely over more than two decades? With a splash of color, of course.

Patek Philippe’s latest Twenty~4 features an eye-catching, olive-green sunburst dial. It’s appointed with the collection’s signature Arabic numerals at 12 and 6, paired with trapezoidal hour markers and rounded baton-style hands. The sides of the case are set with 36 Top Wesselton diamonds, weighing in at nearly a half-carat. And thanks to Patek’s superaccurate Caliber E 15 quartz movement, you don’t need to give a thought to setting or winding. Just slip it on, and leave everyone in your wake green with envy.

Branching out from ever-popular blue dials, luxury watch designers around the globe have also gone green in the past year or two. Patek is no exception: The brand also chose green to replace blue as it phased out its highly coveted Ref. 5711 Nautilus grail watch last year (a victim of its own success).

And green is the color of choice for the brand’s latest Ref. 7130R World Time. The center of its dial is beautifully engraved with a hand-guilloched old basket-weave motif, flaunting the house’s expertise in what it calls “rare handcrafts.”

Patek’s jewelers framed it with 62 brilliant-cut diamonds, then set another 27 sparklers on the prong buckle of its shiny, forest calfskin strap. (Introduced in 2011 as a world-timer for women, the 7130 is powered by Patek’s ultrathin, self-winding Caliber 240 HU movement incorporating a city disk and a 24-hour disk — divided into day/night zones by color and sun/moon symbols — to simultaneously display the time in all 24 of the world’s primary time zones, hence the genre’s name.)

But green is not just for women’s watches. This year, Patek Philippe added a new Annual Calendar Ref. 5205 in rose gold with a deep-olive dial, embellished with a radiant sunburst motif and a gradient black periphery. Apertures showing the day, date and month are arranged in an arc at the top of the dial, while a sapphire crystal caseback reveals the self-winding Caliber 324 S QA LU 24H (equipped with the brand’s patented annual-calendar mechanism that only needs to be manually adjusted once per year, at the end of February).

Even Patek Philippe’s legendary Grand Complication Ref. 5270 perpetual calendar chronograph looks fresh in green this year, with a gleaming polished platinum case paired with a rich, lacquered emerald dial that darkens around the edges.

The dial layout harmoniously arranges the 30-minute chronograph counter and seconds subdial at 3 o’clock and 9 o’clock with the perpetual calendar displays — day and month in apertures at the top, with the date indicated by a hand surrounding a moon phase display at 6 o’clock.

At the lower left and right, apertures display the day/night indication and the leap-year cycle. Showcased through the clear sapphire crystal caseback, the manually wound Caliber CH 29-535 PS Q is a technical tour de force to behold, with six patented innovations for the chronograph and its exceptionally thin calendar mechanism.

We’re green-lighting them all.

Photographer: Arthur Belebeau; Prop Stylist: Miako Katoh; Stylist: Serena French; Model: Melissa Jackson at Carmen Hand Models; Manicurist: Kayo Higuchi at Bryan Bantry