the chin is gone.....
if you look at the patek web site at the 5270G models the dial has been changed. ...
It's good that..
the chin is gone. But the contention with the "chin" was that the seconds hand of the chronograph could not touch the markings. For this new dial without the chin, the dates run into the chronograph seconds track. This means that the hand is able to sweep...
legiblity
should be the hallmark of any watch especially a chronograph for precision timing. Letting the date dial overlap and obliterate part of the chronograph register to me is unacceptable. Although, the 5970 did precisely the same thing. The" chin" corrected t...
The Chin lasted for a year
Years from now, I'm certain that there will be experts writing about different dial versions of this reference, about the "short production run" of this dial versus another, whether one dial is more "collectible" than another. We are living it as the 5270...
... and the dial has become busier too
Strange, Patek wanted a clean display of all information the chrono can shown and has used (lovely!) portholes to clear up the subdials but the collector was not really fond of it. Do we not understand Patek anymore? Best Moritz
I noticed that...
and I agree on the fact this might be a kind of collectible exception in the future. But it looks certainly better even if the "belly" wasn't troubling me that much. I would have loved a whiter dial (instead of a silvery one, I find a bit too cold) ...
Original 5270
It's obvious to me that the very first 5270G is the original and the best.....
