I think you can talk about this watch for hours without repeating yourself in terms of finishes but I will be brief.
I will start with the most insignificant part – the buckle. I was so impressed by the overall piece, that I completely forgot to make a picture of the watch’s buckle, but believe me when I tell you that it is gorgeous: – made from Platinum PT950, the pin buckle has the visible part hand guilloché with a beautiful pattern and if I remember well, it’s the same pattern as the one used on the case bezel.
The watch has a deep shade of blue alligator leather strap that completes harmoniously the entire watch appearance.
The case is a consistent part of the watch’s 235g total weight: a single 1Kg PT950 block was used to carve the solid 49mm and 165g watch case. The entire case’s side and lugs’ sides are vertical brushed with highly polished screws for the strap system. The lugs are on the top and bottom with polished surfaces finished.
The most spectacular parts of the case are the top bezel and the case back. The top bezel has a beautiful grain d’orge guilloché and an anti-reflective coated sapphire crystal. The bezel has the guilloche pattern delimited with high-polished circles that together with the polished and oversized side make a nice contrast that highlights the bezel’s beauty.
In the picture bellow is visible the late time of our conversation – 10 minutes after the closing time – this didn’t stop us.
The case-back with a flat sapphire crystal offers a great view to the one-of-a-kind movement, but suffers the same great treatment as the rest of components – hand engraved with cursive handwriting: “Patek Philippe for Tiffany Split Second Chrono Regulator Grieb & Benzinger PT950 Unique Piece“. Only the amount of work for this inscription is tremendous.
