The Swiss luxury watchmaker is bringing the alarm function back to centre stage at Watches and Wonders 2026 with the Calatrava Alarm Reference 5322G, 24-hour alarm and date indication.
The new Reference 5322G, with a 24-hour alarm function chiming on a classic gong, enables its user to remember an appointment or another specific time easily. With its new calibre AL 30-660 SC movement, this timepiece, in an eminently modern style, combines a case in white gold with its caseband adorned with Clous de Paris or ‘hobnail’ guilloché work with a dial in textured lacquer.
The Reference 5520 Pilot Alarm Travel Time, presented in 2019, drew inspiration from a historical aviator watch conserved in the Patek Philippe Museum. That travel watch par excellence is distinguished by its case equipped with four crown-button pushers and its self-winding movement combining alarm, dual-time-zone and date-indication functions.
The new Reference 5322G replaces the model with alarm function and revisits it in a splendid modern style. According pride of place to the alarm function, its new movement resides in a Calatrava case in white gold with a Clous de Paris decoration.
A Dial Combining Modern Style with Legibility
The dial of the two new References 5322G-001 and 5322G-010 undoubtedly evokes the modernity and style of the dials introduced by Patek Philippe in 2022 with References 5226 and 5326. Lacquered in either blue or green, the dial stands out by its black-gradient rim and granular texture.
The finely ornate applied Arabic numerals and the ‘syringe’ type hour and minute hands are all in white gold with a luminescent coating. The seconds hand is in white-painted steel. It travels around the dial on an elegant railway-track minute scale transfer printed in white.
A dagger-type hand, also in white-painted steel, indicates the date on the snailed counter at six o’clock. The numerals for the date indication are finely transfer printed in white, except for the 1, subtly emphasised in red. The indications for the alarm and its use occupy the upper portion of the dial. The bell-shaped aperture positioned at noon enables the user to check the status of the alarm.
Its colour changes from white, when the alarm is active, to black when it is deactivated. The programmed alarm time appears in a double aperture at the noon position, with the hours on the left and the minutes on the right, indicated in quarter-hour increments.
Immediately below is a circular opening revealing a day/night indicator allowing the alarm to be set 24 hours in advance.
Calatrava Case with a Caseband in Clous de Paris Guilloché Work
Measuring 41mm in diameter, the white-gold case of Calatrava Reference 5322G can be recognised by its single push-piece at the two o’clock position. Its l
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