Patek Philippe 5968R Aquanaut Chronograph Flyback 18kt Rose Gold, Sunburst Brown ’Brun Degrade Arabe Sln’ Dial with Black-Gradient Rim, Automatic, Skeleton Back, Brown Rubber Strap with 18kt Rose Gold Double Fold-Over Deployant Buckle, 42.2mm

The solid 18kt Rose Gold two-body cushion-shaped case, curved lugs, and flat bezel, are polished/brushed. There is a brown tropic dial with applied luminous Arabic numeral hour markers surrounded by a luminous perimeter minute/chronograph second scale with trapezoidal hour indices, narrow sword hands with luminous fill, and it has a luminous center sweep second hand. There is a cushion-shaped large 60-minute fly-back chronograph totalizer at 6 o’clock, and a date aperture window is at the three o’clock position. It includes a signed screw-down winding crown with partial crown guards, a corrector at 8 o’clock for the date on the left-side case band, and rectangular flyback chronograph pushers. It has an exhibition screw-down sapphire display case back with hallmarks underneath the four lugs. It’s water resistant to 120 meters/400 feet, it has a 55-hour power reserve at full winding, and the 11.9mm thick case, dial, and movement are all signed.

This Patek Philippe Aquanaut Chronograph 5968R-001 has a mechanical automatic self-winding Patek Philippe caliber 28-520 C movement that’s rhodium-plated, with Cotes de Geneve and perlage embellishment. It’s constructed with 35 jewels, 327 components, a shock absorber mechanism, and it’s stamped with the seal quality mark. It includes a straight-line lever escapement, and a patented Patek four-arm Gyromax balance with four inertia blocks that’s adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions. There is a self-compensating free-sprung Spiromax balance spring, and a unidirectional 21K gold rotor with an oil-free ball bearing and zirconium balls. 
 

Reference No. 5968R-001