Patek Philippe begins a new chapter for the Twenty~4, while retaining all elements of the continuing story

If you are anything like us, you rejoiced when the news of a fresh&nbsp;Patek Philippe Twenty~4 dropped last year. Of course, we loved the automatic Twenty~4 that debuted in 2018 &ndash; we also worried a little about the fate of the rectangular quartz model, which is&nbsp;called the manchette. This year, Patek Philippe is building up the Twenty~4 collection. Now there are new variants for both&nbsp;the round automatic watches as well the old school rectangular one: Ref. 7300/1200A-011 and Ref. 7300/1200R-011, and Ref.&nbsp;4910/1201R-001, respectively.

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The Twenty~4 is exclusively for women &ndash; it is not a feminine&nbsp;version of an existing watch for men. It was launched in 1999 and immediately made an impact for its diamonds and steel&nbsp;combination. This time, with Ref. 4910/1201R, the case and bracelet are in rose gold, with diamonds on the case. The dial&nbsp;is in what the brand calls chocolate brown sunburst. For the automatic versions, one is in steel with diamonds, graced with an olive green dial (Ref. 7300/1200A), and one is in rose gold with&nbsp;diamonds and a distinctive rose-gilt sunburst dial (Ref. 7300/1200R).

Ref. 4910/1201R-001

Ref. 7300/1200A-011

Ref. 7300/1200R-011

Back to the origins, to seasoned collectors, a form watch powered&nbsp;by a quartz movement in steel with diamonds was yet another chapter in bold thinking from the manufacture that dared to deliver the Nautilus and the Aquanaut. To everyone else, the Twenty~4 was&nbsp;simply a beautiful watch with a fetching bracelet that showcased a&nbsp;different part of the Genevan brand&rsquo;s personality.

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In his book, Patek Philippe, The Authorized Biography, Nick&nbsp;Foulkes described the watch thusly: &ldquo;This straight-sided women&rsquo;s&nbsp;bracelet watch was to prove, in many ways, the defining watch of&nbsp;the closing years of the twentieth century.&rdquo; The Twenty~4 is not&nbsp;a watch that attracts a lot of space in magazines or even online &ndash; the name is certainly not search-engine friendly in the way of the&nbsp;aforementioned Nautilus and Aquanaut. Nevertheless, it has quite&nbsp;a powerful reputation and some even credit it with showing Patek&nbsp;Philippe&rsquo;s commitment to creating watches specifically for women.

In marketing this watch, Patek Philippe uses the idea of rituals,&nbsp;specifically the slogan &ldquo;Rituals of my Life,&rdquo; which echoes the&nbsp;larger &ldquo;Begin your own tradition&rdquo; campaign. You might wonder&nbsp;why we would cite the advertising materials in this story, and it&nbsp;is simply because it adds to the value of the watch. It also tells&nbsp;you something about who Patek Philippe thinks will want to&nbsp;wear this watch. We think there are many more sorts of women&nbsp;who would want this watch, including those who do not go in for the Harry Potter Sorting Hat bit. Speaking of fantastically&nbsp;crafted narratives, we have managed to get this far into the story&nbsp;without delivering all the details on this watch. This is entirely&nbsp;on purpose because a watch like the Twenty~4 does not need&nbsp;technical specifications. Having said that, we close with the&nbsp;facts, in as few words as possible.

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For those familiar with the watch, not much has changed except&nbsp;the dial colours and the markers. In the new design for the&nbsp;manchette, Roman numerals give way to white-gold applied&nbsp;Arabic numerals (just 12 and 6); the former diamond hour&nbsp;markers have made way for applied white gold trapeze-shaped&nbsp;hour markers. For the automatic version, all markers are in rosegold&nbsp;applied numerals, except for the 6, which is replaced by a date&nbsp;indicator. These markers and numerals, as well as the hands, sport&nbsp;luminous coatings (otherwise called fully lumed in watchspeak).

As always, the manchette case is flanked by two rows of&nbsp;18 diamonds totalling just under a half carat. The case size&nbsp;remains the same at 25.1mm x 30mm. For the automatics, the&nbsp;characteristics of the 2018 debut remain, so the movement is a&nbsp;calibre 324 S C and the size is 36mm. The Patek Philippe calibre&nbsp;E15 quartz movement powers the manchette, and it does feature&nbsp;some deft finishing touches, which is unusual for a quartz calibre.

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The automatic references are entirely new, and also feature&nbsp;diamonds only on the bezel (160 in total, for roughly 0.77 carats).&nbsp;The 2020 references, 4910/1200A-001 and 4910/1200A-010,&nbsp;replace the previous steel models, references 4910/10A-001,&nbsp;4910/10A-010, 4910/10A-011 and 4910/10A-012. The new&nbsp;Ref. 4910/1201R-001 with chocolate brown sunburst dial replaces the&nbsp;previous models in rose gold, Ref. 4910/11R-010 and Ref. 4910/11R-011.

Fresh New Looks on the Patek Philippe Twenty~4

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