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  • Three-quarter studio shot
  • Dial macro
  • Bracelet and clasp detail
Sports · Nautilus
Patek Philippe

Nautilus 5711/1A

The steel sports watch that redefined luxury.

Ref. 5711/1A-010 · Released 2006 · Switzerland

Conceived after the 1970s quartz crisis, the Nautilus took its porthole silhouette from a ship's hatch: a rounded octagonal bezel with two lateral 'ears' clamped over a monobloc case.

The 5711 refined the original Jumbo into a 40 mm three-hand watch with a date, an integrated bracelet milled from solid steel, and the horizontally embossed blue-grey dial that became the most requested dial in modern watchmaking.

Model
Nautilus 5711/1A
Brand
Patek Philippe
Collection
Nautilus
Reference
5711/1A-010
Release year
2006
Country of origin
Switzerland
Designer
Gérald Genta

Sketched, by his own account, in minutes over lunch at a Basel restaurant in 1974. Genta also authored the Royal Oak and the IWC Ingenieur SL.

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