Orfina Porsche Design Day Date Automatic New Old Stock

Orfina Porsche Design Day Date Automatic New Old StockPorsche Design's first venture into watchmaking, launched in 1972 in collaboration with Orfina, was a deliberate exercise in industrial design philosophy applied to the wrist. Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, the man behind the 911's silhouette, brought the same principles that defined his automotive work: monochrome surfaces, maximum legibility, and a refusal of decoration for its own sake. The result looked like nothing else on the market, and largely

The white dial is clean and unadorned

A composition so familiar it has become shorthand for elegance itself

the whole creating a patina that the factory could never reproduce

A true collector's watch

Gerald Genta is the designer's designer — the man behind the Nautilus

Produced in probably less than 300 examples

Produced in France for Movado

It occupies a quieter corner of the vintage dive watch conversation than certain Genevan contemporaries

The "Pink on Pink" configuration — rose gold case paired with a matching salmon dial — is among the most sought-after combinations in vintage Patek collecting

yellow gold

and the Géfica

A Cintrée made for Barthelay is not something that comes to market often