Patek Philippe 6002G-001 Sky Moon Tourbillon Blue Dial

Among Patek Philippe’s most intricate and impressive creations, the reference 6002G seems to effortlessly combine immense mechanical complication with amazing aesthetics and readability. This inspirational double-face Grande Complication with hand-made blue cloisonné and champlevé enamel dial was launched in 2013 to replace the first Sky Moon Tourbillon model, reference 5002, launched in 2001 and formerly the most complicated wristwatch in the world. Boasting 12 complications, reference 6002G is housed in an extraordinary sculptural 44mm. white-gold case entirely hand-chased and engraved with almost three-dimensional elegant scrolls which takes Patek Philippe’s master craftsmen over 100 hours to achieve. The exquisite blue dial is made from a gold disc decorated by the master artisans of Patek Philippe’s Rare Handicrafts division with both cloisonné and champlevé enamel in a foliate design to harmonize with the decoration of the case. In this superlative horological work of art, rare handcraft skills are combined with a mechanical tour-de-force, representing the very highest level of watchmaking and artistry.

SKY MOON TOURBILLON
The complications of the 6002G include an acoustically superb minute repeater with two ‘cathedral’ gongs, and a tourbillon. The front dial indicates the hours and minutes of standard time (mean solar time) and displays the perpetual calendar with a retrograde date, months at 3 o’clock, days of the week at 9 o’clock, leap-year indication at 12 o’clock and moon phases at 6 o’clock. The second dial displays the astronomical functions with star chart of the northern sky, hands indicating sidereal time, extremely precise moon phases showing the rising and setting orbit of the moon. The case features two crowns, the lower crown for winding and the setting of the hour and minute hands, the upper crown for setting the sidereal hands, starscape and moon’s orbit.
The main complications of reference 6002G; minute repeating, tourbillon, retrograde perpetual calendar, moon phases and sky chart are all historic inventions from the history of horology that Patek Philippe has striven to continually develop and improve over many decades. Today these complications are not only at the peak of precision and perfect function but here they are combined together in one timepiece – a spectacular display of the greatest watchmaking genius.