YEAR: 2005
CASE MATERIAL: 18k yellow gold with sapphire crystal caseback.
DIAMETER: 39 mm.
STRAP MATERIAL: Patek Philippe brown CROCODILE leather strap
DIAL: Cream lacquer dial with applied gold Arabic and baton numerals, centre seconds, two subsidiary dials for day and month, date aperture, moon-phase at 6 o'clock, power reserve indication at 12 o' clock
MOVEMENT: Cal. 324 S IRM QA LU, automatic movement stamped with the Geneva seal
FUNCTIONS: Time, annual calendar, moon-phase, power reserve indication
CLASP: 18k gold Patek Philippe deployant clasp
WITH: Undated Patek Philippe Certificate of Origin, Patek Philippe leather envelope and product literature.

Ψ This endangered species strap is shown for display purposes only and is not for sale. Upon sale, this watch will be supplied to the buyer with a black leather strap.

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Unlike a perpetual calendar which requires no manual adjusting to keep correct time and date, the annual calendar complication needs one correction a year when February turns into March. This complication was introduced by Patek Philippe with the reference 5035 in 1996.

Reference 5146 replaced the Ref. 5035 in 2005. Quintessentially Patek, this reference has the classical good looks that we have come to associate with Patek's complicated watches. It featured a moon phases display instead of the 24 hour indication at 6 o’ clock, a power reserve indicator is placed at 12 o' clock in an effort to balance the dial. The watch is also 2 mm larger in diameter at 39mm than the original 5035.

In January 2021, Patek Philippe announced that they would be discontinuing the Ref. 5035 in all variants.