Though Patek released two references (and three colorways) in the Cubitus line, the brand has led with the platinum 5822P calendar watch ... (it’s the Nautilus of now) to quasi-Jungian accounts ...

However, all of this noise around the Cubitus—a watch that even Thierry Stern, head of Patek, admits is very similar to the Nautilus—is the foreground of a longer story. Much of 2024’s ...