Engraved Patek Sky Moon

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Patek Philippe(previous) has updated their former flagship, the 5002 Sky Moon Tourbillon, and released it as the ref. 6002, still called a Sky Moon Tourbillon.  The overall details remain mostly the same, 43.5×18mm case, in this case 18kt White Gold, manually-wound caliber RTO27QRSIDLUCL. providing the following features (letters in parenthesis are from the caliber name):

  • 55 Jewels
  • 48 Hour power reserve
  • Minute Repeater ®
  • Tourbillon (TO)
  • Sidereal Time (SID)
  • Retrograde perpetual calendar (QR) - this is the major change from the 5002, the addition of a retrograde calendar.
  • Moonphase (LU) and lunar progression
  • Display of the constellations of the northern hemisphere (CL I guess, it's all that is left)

The changes are mostly in the case, which has been deeply hand engraved on every possible surface, and the front dial, now cloisonné and champlevé enamel. The press-release claims 100 hours of labor into the case alone. If you have to ask, the answer is not available to your sort, Patek does not provide even MSRP for their high-end, and they only sell them to 'established' customers. The simple ref.5002 sold in the range of $1,500,000, so....

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