It seems like patek philippe is just doing some tweaking to their current inventory. There seems to be no breakthrough design in this year's collection. Furthermore, it seems like ther'e cutting costs IMHO. Why would i say something like that? well,
Calarava: the officer's case back? Youv'e gotta be kidding me. It seems they thought the 5159 would be such a seller, and made heaps of cases to minimise production costs, and now, theyr'e stuck with a ton of them, and so, the next best alternative would be using it on urrent models instead!
Guilloche dial? even this guilloche dial is of the 'same design' as the 5159. Why would patek philippe do something like that? it's like a 'mix n match' collection now! Hell, we producted too many of the cases and we're not utilising the craftsman enough, so, might as well ask them to make even more and pour the excess cases and dials onto a current collection!
5960R: it's just a different case metal! i'm disappointed! it seems like they made too many 5960Ps in the past few yrs, and they've decided to use the mold to make a rose gold case instead!
5101R: Nothing much as a hoo-hah about! Clients of PP has been demanding the case to be made in RG for ages! maybe they've fially taken note of the demand!
5098: Now, i think this is the only decent/relatively good idea which they came up with. Yes, the case is the same, but in different metal, but at the very least, they didn't just 'mass produced the guilloche dial, they had to make some modifications to it, resulting in the stunning dial combination. Thumbs up for this design!!!
Nautilus: Trashy. It seems like some art student just graduated and was employed for this design. Bling is bad enough, but the dial? It seems like a rotten combination of 2 dials.
I know it irks people when i make such comments, but i believe being patek philippe, and they wanting to have a PP seal instead of a geneva seal, they should challange themselves to a higher 'bar' as opposed to making mediocre designs/decisions. They have such a reputation to live up to and people would undoubtly demand something better then this year's designs and watches!