Eleven grand and it runs on a battery
By Abby Turner, Melbourne ยท
Quartz fans, I'm one of you. I think quartz is brilliant, so I'm not going to bag this for being quartz, I'm going to bag it for being eleven thousand dollars.
The Twenty~4 came out in 1999 as Patek's watch for women who wear it all day, every day. This 4910 is the rectangular one, 25.1 mm by 7.1 mm thick, steel, blue dial, on a steel bracelet, with a Patek quartz movement inside. It's very nice. The bracelet is lovely and the shape is classic. Sapphire crystal.
But no seconds hand, 30 m of water resistance, and a price of US$11,000 to $12,500. I could buy every G-Shock in this batch, a new tent, and a fancy dinner and still have change. Hard to argue with that.
If you have the money and you want a Patek you can actually wear daily, fair enough, and I'd rather this than a fragile gold thing. I just can't pretend it makes sense to me.