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The Patek Philippe Nautilus 5711/1A-010 — what it is and what it represents The Patek Philippe Nautilus 5711/1A-010 is widely regarded as the most coveted modern luxury sports watch ever produced. That is not hyperbole — it is a market fact reflected in waitlists that stretched a decade at authorised dealers, secondary prices that peaked at multiples of retail, and a discontinuation announcement in January 2021 that generated more coverage than almost any other event in the watch industry’s recent history. The 5711 was introduced in 2006 to mark the 30th anniversary of the Nautilus collection. The original Nautilus — reference 3700/1A — was designed by Gérald Genta in 1976 as a high-end stainless-steel sports watch at a time when serious watchmaking was conducted exclusively in precious metals. Its porthole-bezel case, exposed screws, horizontally embossed dial, and integrated bracelet were unlike anything the market had seen, and the design has needed no reinvention in the fifty years since. The 5711/1A-010 — the blue-black gradient dial in stainless steel — became the reference that defined the entire modern sports watch category. Its discontinuation in 2021 was followed by tw…