It’s hard to retire him.

The Nautilus 5711 / 1A, the most loved Patek Philippe of all, and expelled from production at the beginning of 2021 by President Thierry Stern, reappeared yesterday 6 December and cheekily in a limited edition with a blue-azure dial to celebrate the 170th anniversary. of the partnership between the Geneva Maison and Tiffany & Company.best replica watches

Its name is Patek Philippe Nautilus Ref. 5711 / 1A-018 Tiffany & Co.

The star who first emerged in 1976 from the magical pen of Gérald Genta immediately reacted badly to Stern’s decision to punish him for having stolen the show from all the brand’s collections in recent years.

Last July at an Antiquorum auction held in Munich,

an example of the very latest series with an olive green dial just out of the factory was sold for 416,000 euros.fake Patek Philippe

Follies of fashionable luxury sports watches, which we are now used to.

170 Years Spent Together
Both Patek Philippe (1839) and Tiffany & Co. (1837) were founded two years apart from each other, it is therefore easy to understand how the two giants of glitz immediately fell in love with each other. watch

The first official agreement regarding the retail sale of Patek Philippe timepieces on the US market dates back to 1851. In 1876, a second agreement arrives that appoints Tiffany & Co. as general representative for the United States as well as invested with such power that it could manage the local interests of the Geneva manufacturing company in its place.

In the period from 1900 to 1930,

Tiffany & Co. played a key role in the relationship between Patek Philippe and the great American watch collectors, such as Henry Graves Junior for whom the manufacture made a wide range of super complicated watches.

In 2008, Patek Philippe further intensified the relationship with the American jeweler by opening a boutique inside the famous Tiffany store in New York located on Fifth Avenue which is currently undergoing renovations. Here you can always admire the entire collection of the manufacture.

Patek Philippe Nautilus Ref.5711 / 1A-018 Tiffany & Co

Therefore, to commemorate a partnership that has lasted for 170 years, Patek Philippe has created a limited edition of as many Ref. 5711 / 1A-018 Nautilus in steel with the famous Tiffany Blue® dial.

On the outside, these Nautilus are immediately recognizable by the dial with the usual, unusually blue, horizontal embossed motifs, the typical color of the New York jeweler.

Looking at it more closely you can see the typical writing “Patek Philippe Geneve” at 12 – while at six Tiffany & Co.

Everything else is the same as the production models.

The Nautilus Tiffany 5711 / 1A is declined in the latest version which dates back to 2006 and which will be withdrawn from the market in 2022, let’s say officially because practically since the beginning of 2021 this model is more unobtainable than usual.

The sapphire caseback bears the commemorative inscription “170th Anniversary 1851-2021 Tiffany & Co. – Patek Philippe”. Looking more closely at the year 2021, the four letters in LVMH block capitals white on black appear inside the number “1”, in memory of the watchmaking group of the same name that in early January 2021 completed the acquisition of Tiffany for the sum of 15 , 8 billion dollars.