Reference 6196P found the exactly right amount of frills and details to enliven an otherwise perfectly clean design. One of the oddly great things the Calatrava Reference 6196P achieves is finding a color to match its salmon pink dial.
While this increasingly popular tone exudes a sophisticated 1950s vibe, experience proves it's hard to pair. Browns, blues, grays and golds keep falling short.
However counter-intuitive, the near-black hue of the hour-markers ends up doing the trick. The result is a sophisticated harmony between the cold gleam of the platinum case (with its signature diamond hidden between the lugs at 6 o'clock), the pared-down warmth of the opaline gilt dial (which the brand is reluctant to call salmon as it may be too vernacular for a high-brow timepiece) and the faceted, applied hour-markers, hands and recessed dots in the minutes track.
This association achieves instant balance, as is expected of such a brand as Patek Philippe.
Calatrava Reference 6196P
CASE: 950 platinum, sapphire crystal and caseback, water-resistant to 30m
SIZE: 38mm in diameter, 9.33mm thick
MOVEMENT: mechanical manually-wound, Caliber 30-255 PS, 4 Hz, 65h power reserve
FUNCTIONS: hours and minutes, small seconds
DIAL: rose-gilt opaline, anthracite white gold hour-markers and Dauphine hands
STRAP: brown alligator leather, platinum pin buckle
PRICE: on request
