The annual calendar in wristwatches is a surprisingly recent development; they did not appear until Patek introduced the reference 5035, in 1996 and needless to say, that was not what you’d call a democratically priced wristwatch (and ironically, it actually had a higher parts count than Patek’s contemporary perpetual calendar movements). The current version of the 5035 is the reference 5146G, which is a $41,390 wristwatch. While the movement of the Longines Annual Calendar isn’t adorned with fine hand finishing (and of course, it’s vastly different from the Patek in many other respects as well) one should not expect that in a complicated, sub $3K watch in any case and c’mon, it’s a freakin’ $2,425 annual calendar.
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