Patek Philippe Aquanaut Price Guide: What the 5167, 5164, 5168 and 5968 Cost in 2026
By Wristcheck Editorial – reviewed by our in-person authentication team.
Updated: September 2026.
The Patek Philippe Aquanaut was launched in 1997 as Patek's entry point, aimed at younger first-time buyers, and its price has since left that idea behind. A Patek Philippe Aquanaut price is set by generation and metal before anything else. The first-generation 35.6 mm steel watches open the range, the current steel 5167 on its composite strap is the reference most searches mean, and the rose gold, white gold and complicated pieces climb from there in tiers. There is no single answer to how much a Patek Philippe Aquanaut is, only the price of the one you mean. Every reference on this list is drawn from the Patek Philippe Aquanaut collection on Wristcheck, least expensive first.
At a Glance
A pre-owned Patek Philippe Aquanaut typically costs from around US$ 45,000 for a first-generation 35.6 mm steel watch to more than US$ 200,000 for the rose gold annual calendar, with the steel 5167 most buyers want between roughly US$ 60,000 and US$ 120,000. Gold and complications each add a tier, and nothing sells near list.
- Where the range starts – Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5060A-001
- The Aquanaut most people mean – Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5167A-001
- Discontinued in 2025 – Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5167/1A-001
- The anniversary Jumbo, in blue – Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5168G-001
- The chronograph in white gold – Patek Philippe Aquanaut Chronograph 5968G-010
- The most expensive Aquanaut here – Patek Philippe Aquanaut Luce Annual Calendar 5261R-001
Full comparison
Model Case Movement Price Year Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5060A-001 35.6 mm, steel, solid screw-down back Cal. 330 SC, automatic, 48 h US$ 45,000 1997–1998 (discontinued) Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5165A-001 38.8 mm, steel Cal. 324 S C (Cal. 315 S C in 2007), automatic, 45 h Price on request 2007–2012 (discontinued) Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5066A-001 35.6 mm, steel, sapphire back Cal. 330 SC, automatic, 48 h US$ 54,700 1998–2006 (discontinued) Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5167A-001 40.8 mm × 8.1 mm, steel Cal. 26-330 S C (Cal. 324 S C from 2008, 315 SC in 2007), automatic, 35–45 h US$ 62,200 2007–present Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5167/1A-001 40.8 mm × 8.1 mm, steel, integrated bracelet Cal. 26-330 S C (Cal. 324 S C in early watches), automatic, 35–45 h US$ 71,700 2008–2025 (discontinued) Patek Philippe Aquanaut Luce 5267/200A-011 38.8 mm × 7.9 mm, steel, 48-diamond bezel Cal. E 23-250 S C, quartz, about three-year battery US$ 74,800 2021–present Patek Philippe Aquanaut Travel Time 5269R-001 38.8 mm × 8.77 mm, rose gold Cal. E 23-250 S FUS 24H, quartz travel time, about three-year battery US$ 78,900 2024–present Patek Philippe Aquanaut Travel Time 5164A-001 40.8 mm, steel Cal. 324 S C FUS, automatic travel time, 45 h US$ 104,800 2011–2024 (discontinued) Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5168G-010 42.2 mm × 8.25 mm, white gold Cal. 26-330 S C (Cal. 324 S C in 2019 watches), automatic, 35–45 h US$ 107,100 2019–present Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5167R-001 40.8 mm × 8.1 mm, rose gold Cal. 26-330 S C (Cal. 324 S C in early watches), automatic, 35–45 h US$ 108,800 2009–present Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5168G-001 42.2 mm × 8.25 mm, white gold Cal. 26-330 S C (Cal. 324 S C at launch), automatic, 35–45 h US$ 109,000 2017–present Patek Philippe Aquanaut Chronograph 5968G-010 42.2 mm × 11.9 mm, white gold Cal. CH 28-520 C, automatic flyback chronograph, 45–55 h US$ 115,000 2021–present Patek Philippe Aquanaut Chronograph 5968G-001 42.2 mm × 11.9 mm, white gold Cal. CH 28-520 C, automatic flyback chronograph, 45–55 h US$ 148,300 2021–present Patek Philippe Aquanaut Chronograph 5968A-001 42.2 mm × 11.9 mm, steel Cal. CH 28-520 C, automatic flyback chronograph, 45–55 h US$ 164,400 2018–present Patek Philippe Aquanaut Travel Time 5164G-001 40.8 mm × 10.2 mm, white gold Cal. 26-330 S C FUS, automatic travel time, 35–45 h US$ 174,000 2024–present Patek Philippe Aquanaut Luce Annual Calendar 5261R-001 39.9 mm × 10.94 mm, rose gold Cal. 26-330 S QA LU, automatic annual calendar, 35–45 h US$ 218,800 2023–present
A pre-owned Patek Philippe Aquanaut typically costs from around US$ 45,000 for a first-generation 35.6 mm steel watch to more than US$ 200,000 for the rose gold annual calendar, with the steel 5167 most buyers want between roughly US$ 60,000 and US$ 120,000. Gold and complications each add a tier, and nothing sells near list.
- Where the range starts – Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5060A-001
- The Aquanaut most people mean – Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5167A-001
- Discontinued in 2025 – Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5167/1A-001
- The anniversary Jumbo, in blue – Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5168G-001
- The chronograph in white gold – Patek Philippe Aquanaut Chronograph 5968G-010
- The most expensive Aquanaut here – Patek Philippe Aquanaut Luce Annual Calendar 5261R-001
Full comparison
| Model | Case | Movement | Price | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5060A-001 | 35.6 mm, steel, solid screw-down back | Cal. 330 SC, automatic, 48 h | US$ 45,000 | 1997–1998 (discontinued) |
| Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5165A-001 | 38.8 mm, steel | Cal. 324 S C (Cal. 315 S C in 2007), automatic, 45 h | Price on request | 2007–2012 (discontinued) |
| Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5066A-001 | 35.6 mm, steel, sapphire back | Cal. 330 SC, automatic, 48 h | US$ 54,700 | 1998–2006 (discontinued) |
| Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5167A-001 | 40.8 mm × 8.1 mm, steel | Cal. 26-330 S C (Cal. 324 S C from 2008, 315 SC in 2007), automatic, 35–45 h | US$ 62,200 | 2007–present |
| Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5167/1A-001 | 40.8 mm × 8.1 mm, steel, integrated bracelet | Cal. 26-330 S C (Cal. 324 S C in early watches), automatic, 35–45 h | US$ 71,700 | 2008–2025 (discontinued) |
| Patek Philippe Aquanaut Luce 5267/200A-011 | 38.8 mm × 7.9 mm, steel, 48-diamond bezel | Cal. E 23-250 S C, quartz, about three-year battery | US$ 74,800 | 2021–present |
| Patek Philippe Aquanaut Travel Time 5269R-001 | 38.8 mm × 8.77 mm, rose gold | Cal. E 23-250 S FUS 24H, quartz travel time, about three-year battery | US$ 78,900 | 2024–present |
| Patek Philippe Aquanaut Travel Time 5164A-001 | 40.8 mm, steel | Cal. 324 S C FUS, automatic travel time, 45 h | US$ 104,800 | 2011–2024 (discontinued) |
| Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5168G-010 | 42.2 mm × 8.25 mm, white gold | Cal. 26-330 S C (Cal. 324 S C in 2019 watches), automatic, 35–45 h | US$ 107,100 | 2019–present |
| Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5167R-001 | 40.8 mm × 8.1 mm, rose gold | Cal. 26-330 S C (Cal. 324 S C in early watches), automatic, 35–45 h | US$ 108,800 | 2009–present |
| Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5168G-001 | 42.2 mm × 8.25 mm, white gold | Cal. 26-330 S C (Cal. 324 S C at launch), automatic, 35–45 h | US$ 109,000 | 2017–present |
| Patek Philippe Aquanaut Chronograph 5968G-010 | 42.2 mm × 11.9 mm, white gold | Cal. CH 28-520 C, automatic flyback chronograph, 45–55 h | US$ 115,000 | 2021–present |
| Patek Philippe Aquanaut Chronograph 5968G-001 | 42.2 mm × 11.9 mm, white gold | Cal. CH 28-520 C, automatic flyback chronograph, 45–55 h | US$ 148,300 | 2021–present |
| Patek Philippe Aquanaut Chronograph 5968A-001 | 42.2 mm × 11.9 mm, steel | Cal. CH 28-520 C, automatic flyback chronograph, 45–55 h | US$ 164,400 | 2018–present |
| Patek Philippe Aquanaut Travel Time 5164G-001 | 40.8 mm × 10.2 mm, white gold | Cal. 26-330 S C FUS, automatic travel time, 35–45 h | US$ 174,000 | 2024–present |
| Patek Philippe Aquanaut Luce Annual Calendar 5261R-001 | 39.9 mm × 10.94 mm, rose gold | Cal. 26-330 S QA LU, automatic annual calendar, 35–45 h | US$ 218,800 | 2023–present |
1. Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5060A-001
Sold as a Nautilus in 1997, and the first Aquanaut
Patek's own 1997 catalog listed the 5060A, and its yellow gold twin the 5060J, under the Nautilus collection, and the folding clasps on the earliest examples say Nautilus too. Only the instruction manual of October 1997 called it an Aquanaut. The A stands for acier, French for steel, and the watch it names is a 35.6 mm brushed case with a screw-down crown and a solid screw-down back, replaced by a sapphire display back on the 5066 that followed.
Inside is the self-winding caliber 330 SC, 3.5 mm thick, beating at 21,600 vibrations an hour with a 48-hour reserve and a 21K gold rotor.
The checkerboard dial and the matching Tropical strap were both firsts for Patek, and the strap alone took more than a year and over twenty materials to develop. The steel Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5060A-001 stayed in production for about a year before the 5066 replaced it, and the whole 5060 run, steel and gold together, is believed to have been capped at around 1,000 pieces by the supply of 330 SC movements.
Early dials and hands are tritium, so a slight color mismatch between the hands and the hour markers is normal on an unserviced watch and not a sign of replacement hands.
Specs
Case: 35.6 mm, steel, solid screw-down back
Movement: Cal. 330 SC, automatic, 48 h
Signature: solid screw-down back and a clasp signed Nautilus, not Aquanaut
Reference: 5060A-001
Year: 1997–1998 (discontinued)
Approx. price: US$ 45,000
Market note: Wristcheck's one 5060A-001 asks US$ 45,000 in September 2026, a little above the US$ 43,943 a 1997 example made at auction in Monaco in October 2025. With only about 1,000 first-generation 5060s believed made in steel and gold combined, the price is set by how few surface, not by any list price.
Sold as a Nautilus in 1997, and the first Aquanaut
Patek's own 1997 catalog listed the 5060A, and its yellow gold twin the 5060J, under the Nautilus collection, and the folding clasps on the earliest examples say Nautilus too. Only the instruction manual of October 1997 called it an Aquanaut. The A stands for acier, French for steel, and the watch it names is a 35.6 mm brushed case with a screw-down crown and a solid screw-down back, replaced by a sapphire display back on the 5066 that followed.
Inside is the self-winding caliber 330 SC, 3.5 mm thick, beating at 21,600 vibrations an hour with a 48-hour reserve and a 21K gold rotor.
The checkerboard dial and the matching Tropical strap were both firsts for Patek, and the strap alone took more than a year and over twenty materials to develop. The steel Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5060A-001 stayed in production for about a year before the 5066 replaced it, and the whole 5060 run, steel and gold together, is believed to have been capped at around 1,000 pieces by the supply of 330 SC movements.
Early dials and hands are tritium, so a slight color mismatch between the hands and the hour markers is normal on an unserviced watch and not a sign of replacement hands.
Specs
Case: 35.6 mm, steel, solid screw-down back
Movement: Cal. 330 SC, automatic, 48 h
Signature: solid screw-down back and a clasp signed Nautilus, not Aquanaut
Reference: 5060A-001
Year: 1997–1998 (discontinued)
Approx. price: US$ 45,000
Market note: Wristcheck's one 5060A-001 asks US$ 45,000 in September 2026, a little above the US$ 43,943 a 1997 example made at auction in Monaco in October 2025. With only about 1,000 first-generation 5060s believed made in steel and gold combined, the price is set by how few surface, not by any list price.
2. Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5165A-001
The 38.8 mm Aquanaut that lasted five years
Patek marked the Aquanaut's tenth anniversary in 2007 with two new watches, and this is the one people forget. The 5167A grew the case to 40.8 mm and became the reference everyone means. The 5165A took the same redesign, the deleted numeral at three, the date window pulled inward, the smoothed checkerboard, the recontoured Tropical strap and the new double-security clasp, and put it in a 38.8 mm case that replaced the 5065 directly. Both launched with the caliber 315 S C carried over from the 5065, and both moved to the 324 S C the following year, so a first-year 5165A and a later one are different watches inside.
It lasted five years. The larger 5167 was the one that sold, and Patek dropped the 5165 in 2012 without ever making it in gold, which leaves the steel Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5165A-001 as the only mechanical Aquanaut of the modern generation at 38.8 mm: the same three-piece steel case construction as the 5167, the same 120 m water resistance and screw-down crown, and for most of its run the same 324 S C that powered the steel Nautilus 5711 of the day. Five years of production against the 5167A's nearly twenty makes it far scarcer, and it is routinely confused with the 1998 38 mm 5065 Jumbo it replaced, with which it shares the size and nothing else.
Wristcheck has handled one and had none for sale at the September 2026 update. It is exactly the kind of reference the concierge team sources on request, and the enquiry on the model page is where that starts.
Specs
Case: 38.8 mm, steel
Movement: Cal. 324 S C (Cal. 315 S C in 2007), automatic, 45 h
Signature: the 2007 redesign in the smaller case, with the numeral at three deleted and the date window pulled inward
Reference: 5165A-001
Year: 2007–2012 (discontinued)
Approx. price: Price on request
Market note: Wristcheck has listed one 5165A-001 over time, asked at US$ 50,400, and had none for sale at the September 2026 update, so the price is whatever the enquiry desk can source one for. A public price guide put the reference at US$ 50,000 in September 2025, and five years of production against the 5167A's nearly twenty is what a buyer is paying for.
The 38.8 mm Aquanaut that lasted five years
Patek marked the Aquanaut's tenth anniversary in 2007 with two new watches, and this is the one people forget. The 5167A grew the case to 40.8 mm and became the reference everyone means. The 5165A took the same redesign, the deleted numeral at three, the date window pulled inward, the smoothed checkerboard, the recontoured Tropical strap and the new double-security clasp, and put it in a 38.8 mm case that replaced the 5065 directly. Both launched with the caliber 315 S C carried over from the 5065, and both moved to the 324 S C the following year, so a first-year 5165A and a later one are different watches inside.
It lasted five years. The larger 5167 was the one that sold, and Patek dropped the 5165 in 2012 without ever making it in gold, which leaves the steel Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5165A-001 as the only mechanical Aquanaut of the modern generation at 38.8 mm: the same three-piece steel case construction as the 5167, the same 120 m water resistance and screw-down crown, and for most of its run the same 324 S C that powered the steel Nautilus 5711 of the day. Five years of production against the 5167A's nearly twenty makes it far scarcer, and it is routinely confused with the 1998 38 mm 5065 Jumbo it replaced, with which it shares the size and nothing else.
Wristcheck has handled one and had none for sale at the September 2026 update. It is exactly the kind of reference the concierge team sources on request, and the enquiry on the model page is where that starts.
Specs
Case: 38.8 mm, steel
Movement: Cal. 324 S C (Cal. 315 S C in 2007), automatic, 45 h
Signature: the 2007 redesign in the smaller case, with the numeral at three deleted and the date window pulled inward
Reference: 5165A-001
Year: 2007–2012 (discontinued)
Approx. price: Price on request
Market note: Wristcheck has listed one 5165A-001 over time, asked at US$ 50,400, and had none for sale at the September 2026 update, so the price is whatever the enquiry desk can source one for. A public price guide put the reference at US$ 50,000 in September 2025, and five years of production against the 5167A's nearly twenty is what a buyer is paying for.
3. Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5066A-001
Nine years in production, so the one you can find
The 5060A lasted a year. What replaced it in 1998 was the 5066, and on paper it looks like the same watch with a window in the back: the same 35.6 mm brushed steel case, the same screw-down crown, the same self-winding caliber 330 SC, now visible through a sapphire display back where the 5060 had a solid one. Patek launched it as part of a broader expansion of the line that year, alongside the 38 mm 5065, and it is the reference that turned the Aquanaut from a one-year experiment into a collection.
The reason it matters to a buyer is time. The steel Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5066A-001 stayed in production until 2006, nine years against the 5060A's one, so it built the Aquanaut's early volume and it is the first-generation watch that actually comes up for sale. It was also the first Aquanaut you could buy on a bracelet: from 1998 Patek offered the same watch on a brick-link steel bracelet as the 5066/1A, which means the bracelet Aquanaut is almost as old as the strap one, even if most people think of it as a later idea.
Nine years also means two kinds of dial. Patek used tritium for the luminous material until around 2004 and Super-LumiNova after that, and the tritium dials, which age to a warm cream, are the ones collectors pay up for. Most of what reaches the market is a late Super-LumiNova watch, and a watch from the changeover years can carry both from the factory, so a mixed dial is not automatically a sign of a swap.
Specs
Case: 35.6 mm, steel, sapphire back
Movement: Cal. 330 SC, automatic, 48 h
Signature: the original 35.6 mm case and caliber, now behind a sapphire display back
Reference: 5066A-001
Year: 1998–2006 (discontinued)
Approx. price: US$ 54,700
Market note: Wristcheck's 5066A-001 asks US$ 54,700 in September 2026, above a public market value of about US$ 44,800 in August 2026 and well above a Swedish auction hammer near US$ 31,000 in 2025 for a late, Super-LumiNova example. The nine-year run makes it the easiest first-generation Aquanaut to find, and the tritium-dial watches sit at the top of that spread.
Nine years in production, so the one you can find
The 5060A lasted a year. What replaced it in 1998 was the 5066, and on paper it looks like the same watch with a window in the back: the same 35.6 mm brushed steel case, the same screw-down crown, the same self-winding caliber 330 SC, now visible through a sapphire display back where the 5060 had a solid one. Patek launched it as part of a broader expansion of the line that year, alongside the 38 mm 5065, and it is the reference that turned the Aquanaut from a one-year experiment into a collection.
The reason it matters to a buyer is time. The steel Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5066A-001 stayed in production until 2006, nine years against the 5060A's one, so it built the Aquanaut's early volume and it is the first-generation watch that actually comes up for sale. It was also the first Aquanaut you could buy on a bracelet: from 1998 Patek offered the same watch on a brick-link steel bracelet as the 5066/1A, which means the bracelet Aquanaut is almost as old as the strap one, even if most people think of it as a later idea.
Nine years also means two kinds of dial. Patek used tritium for the luminous material until around 2004 and Super-LumiNova after that, and the tritium dials, which age to a warm cream, are the ones collectors pay up for. Most of what reaches the market is a late Super-LumiNova watch, and a watch from the changeover years can carry both from the factory, so a mixed dial is not automatically a sign of a swap.
Specs
Case: 35.6 mm, steel, sapphire back
Movement: Cal. 330 SC, automatic, 48 h
Signature: the original 35.6 mm case and caliber, now behind a sapphire display back
Reference: 5066A-001
Year: 1998–2006 (discontinued)
Approx. price: US$ 54,700
Market note: Wristcheck's 5066A-001 asks US$ 54,700 in September 2026, above a public market value of about US$ 44,800 in August 2026 and well above a Swedish auction hammer near US$ 31,000 in 2025 for a late, Super-LumiNova example. The nine-year run makes it the easiest first-generation Aquanaut to find, and the tritium-dial watches sit at the top of that spread.
4. Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5167A-001
The Aquanaut most people mean, and the premium that doubled
Patek introduced the 5167 in 2007 for the Aquanaut's tenth anniversary, and it has been the reference the name means ever since. The case grew to 40.8 mm, measured from ten to four o'clock across the porthole as Patek does it, and thinned to 8.1 mm. The redesign deleted the numeral at three o'clock and pulled the date window inward toward the dial center, which freed the chapter ring for a luminous marker and gave the Aquanaut the small asymmetry that still identifies it.
The composite strap was recut to follow the case curve, and it got a clasp of its own with no Nautilus signature on it.
The movement has changed twice under the same reference number. The first year ran the caliber 315 SC, the 324 S C took over in 2008 when the bracelet version appeared, and current watches carry the 26-330 S C, which added a stop-seconds so the watch can be set to the second. So a 5167A-001 price only means something once you know which caliber is inside.
The water resistance is 120 m with a screw-down crown, whatever the 30 m on Patek's website says, because that figure is the site's default for every reference, and the 5167A carries the same screw-down crown it always has.
Patek still makes the steel Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5167A-001 on its composite strap, one of nineteen Aquanaut references in the catalog in September 2026, so in theory it has a list price.
In practice that price is what an allocated client pays after a wait, and everyone else buys pre-owned. Since the steel Nautilus 5711 went out of production in 2021 the Aquanaut has absorbed the demand that used to go there.
What separates the lowest of those asks from the highest is the caliber inside, not the watch around it.
Specs
Case: 40.8 mm × 8.1 mm, steel
Movement: Cal. 26-330 S C (Cal. 324 S C from 2008, 315 SC in 2007), automatic, 35–45 h
Signature: no numeral at three o'clock and a date window pulled inward, the 2007 asymmetry
Reference: 5167A-001
Year: 2007–present
Approx. price: US$ 62,200
Market note: Wristcheck's four 5167A-001s ask US$ 62,200 to US$ 116,200 in September 2026, roughly two and a quarter to four and a quarter times the US$ 27,257 US list price only an allocated client pays. The premium doubled after the steel Nautilus 5711 was discontinued: the 5167 on its steel bracelet traded about 100% over list before 2022 and 200 to 250% over since, according to a 2026 market report.
The Aquanaut most people mean, and the premium that doubled
Patek introduced the 5167 in 2007 for the Aquanaut's tenth anniversary, and it has been the reference the name means ever since. The case grew to 40.8 mm, measured from ten to four o'clock across the porthole as Patek does it, and thinned to 8.1 mm. The redesign deleted the numeral at three o'clock and pulled the date window inward toward the dial center, which freed the chapter ring for a luminous marker and gave the Aquanaut the small asymmetry that still identifies it.
The composite strap was recut to follow the case curve, and it got a clasp of its own with no Nautilus signature on it.
The movement has changed twice under the same reference number. The first year ran the caliber 315 SC, the 324 S C took over in 2008 when the bracelet version appeared, and current watches carry the 26-330 S C, which added a stop-seconds so the watch can be set to the second. So a 5167A-001 price only means something once you know which caliber is inside.
The water resistance is 120 m with a screw-down crown, whatever the 30 m on Patek's website says, because that figure is the site's default for every reference, and the 5167A carries the same screw-down crown it always has.
Patek still makes the steel Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5167A-001 on its composite strap, one of nineteen Aquanaut references in the catalog in September 2026, so in theory it has a list price.
In practice that price is what an allocated client pays after a wait, and everyone else buys pre-owned. Since the steel Nautilus 5711 went out of production in 2021 the Aquanaut has absorbed the demand that used to go there.
What separates the lowest of those asks from the highest is the caliber inside, not the watch around it.
Specs
Case: 40.8 mm × 8.1 mm, steel
Movement: Cal. 26-330 S C (Cal. 324 S C from 2008, 315 SC in 2007), automatic, 35–45 h
Signature: no numeral at three o'clock and a date window pulled inward, the 2007 asymmetry
Reference: 5167A-001
Year: 2007–present
Approx. price: US$ 62,200
Market note: Wristcheck's four 5167A-001s ask US$ 62,200 to US$ 116,200 in September 2026, roughly two and a quarter to four and a quarter times the US$ 27,257 US list price only an allocated client pays. The premium doubled after the steel Nautilus 5711 was discontinued: the 5167 on its steel bracelet traded about 100% over list before 2022 and 200 to 250% over since, according to a 2026 market report.
5. Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5167/1A-001
Same watch, steel bracelet, and Patek stopped making it
In February 2025 Patek quietly removed the bracelet Aquanaut from its catalog, in the same round of cuts that took out the steel Nautilus 5712 and the Calatrava Pilot 5524G. There was no announcement; the watch simply stopped appearing on the website, and the trade press pieced the change together within days. The strap version, the 5167A, stayed. That one decision is the whole reason the Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5167/1A-001 on its steel bracelet costs more than a watch it is otherwise identical to, because the bracelet became the only part of the Aquanaut that Patek would no longer sell you.
The bracelet has a longer history than the discontinuation suggests. Patek added it in 2008, a year after the strap 5167A introduced the 40.8 mm case, and at the same moment the movement changed from the first-year caliber 315 SC to the 324 S C. It is an integrated H-link design, satin-finished center links between polished outer links, and it changes the character of the watch more than a strap swap should: on the composite strap the Aquanaut is a sports watch, on the bracelet it is something much closer to the Nautilus it was designed to sit beneath.
Everything else is the strap watch. The case is 40.8 mm and 8.1 mm thick, the water resistance is 120 m, and early examples carry the 324 S C while later ones carry the 26-330 S C, exactly as on the 5167A.
The market reacted the way it usually does when Patek retires a steel reference. Within months, examples in excellent condition were reported up by about 15%, and the reference reached its highest level of the past two years in November 2025. One thing to be careful of: at least one 2026 market report describes the 5167/1A as a 2018 introduction that is still in production. It is neither. It launched in 2008, it ended in 2025, and every one for sale is pre-owned.
Specs
Case: 40.8 mm × 8.1 mm, steel, integrated bracelet
Movement: Cal. 26-330 S C (Cal. 324 S C in early watches), automatic, 35–45 h
Signature: H-link bracelet, satin center links against polished outer links
Reference: 5167/1A-001
Year: 2008–2025 (discontinued)
Approx. price: US$ 71,700
Market note: Wristcheck's three 5167/1A-001s ask from US$ 71,700 in September 2026, about two and a half times the US$ 28,280 it carried on Patek's December 2024 US list, the last dated list price before the bracelet version was dropped in February 2025. It rose about 15% in the months after the discontinuation and peaked near US$ 72,200 in November 2025, up 23% on an April 2024 low of about US$ 58,700.
Same watch, steel bracelet, and Patek stopped making it
In February 2025 Patek quietly removed the bracelet Aquanaut from its catalog, in the same round of cuts that took out the steel Nautilus 5712 and the Calatrava Pilot 5524G. There was no announcement; the watch simply stopped appearing on the website, and the trade press pieced the change together within days. The strap version, the 5167A, stayed. That one decision is the whole reason the Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5167/1A-001 on its steel bracelet costs more than a watch it is otherwise identical to, because the bracelet became the only part of the Aquanaut that Patek would no longer sell you.
The bracelet has a longer history than the discontinuation suggests. Patek added it in 2008, a year after the strap 5167A introduced the 40.8 mm case, and at the same moment the movement changed from the first-year caliber 315 SC to the 324 S C. It is an integrated H-link design, satin-finished center links between polished outer links, and it changes the character of the watch more than a strap swap should: on the composite strap the Aquanaut is a sports watch, on the bracelet it is something much closer to the Nautilus it was designed to sit beneath.
Everything else is the strap watch. The case is 40.8 mm and 8.1 mm thick, the water resistance is 120 m, and early examples carry the 324 S C while later ones carry the 26-330 S C, exactly as on the 5167A.
The market reacted the way it usually does when Patek retires a steel reference. Within months, examples in excellent condition were reported up by about 15%, and the reference reached its highest level of the past two years in November 2025. One thing to be careful of: at least one 2026 market report describes the 5167/1A as a 2018 introduction that is still in production. It is neither. It launched in 2008, it ended in 2025, and every one for sale is pre-owned.
Specs
Case: 40.8 mm × 8.1 mm, steel, integrated bracelet
Movement: Cal. 26-330 S C (Cal. 324 S C in early watches), automatic, 35–45 h
Signature: H-link bracelet, satin center links against polished outer links
Reference: 5167/1A-001
Year: 2008–2025 (discontinued)
Approx. price: US$ 71,700
Market note: Wristcheck's three 5167/1A-001s ask from US$ 71,700 in September 2026, about two and a half times the US$ 28,280 it carried on Patek's December 2024 US list, the last dated list price before the bracelet version was dropped in February 2025. It rose about 15% in the months after the discontinuation and peaked near US$ 72,200 in November 2025, up 23% on an April 2024 low of about US$ 58,700.
6. Patek Philippe Aquanaut Luce 5267/200A-011
A 38.8 mm quartz Aquanaut with diamonds, and not the small one
Luce is Patek's name for the diamond-set Aquanaut, from the Italian word for light, and the line has existed since 2004. For most of that time the quartz Luce was a small watch, 35.6 mm across, which is the version most people still picture when they hear the name. In May 2021 Patek relaunched it at 38.8 mm, only two millimeters under the steel Travel Time, in three dial colors borrowed from the men's line, and this khaki green -011 is one of the three.
It is 7.9 mm thick, it has a screw-down crown, and the launch material rates it to 120 m, so it is a more serious watch than its reputation.
The diamonds are the signature. A single row of 48 round-cut stones sits in the rounded-octagonal bezel; Patek's website puts the total at 1.17 carats while the 2021 launch material said 1.11. The dial is a varnished khaki green with the embossed Aquanaut pattern and white gold applied numerals, matched to a khaki composite strap with a steel fold-over clasp. What runs it is the quartz caliber E 23-250 S C, 80 parts and 8 jewels on a silver-oxide battery that lasts about three years.
That last detail is the thing to understand about the price. On the green Patek Philippe Aquanaut Luce 5267/200A-011 almost none of what you pay is for the movement. You are paying for the case, the diamonds and the name, and the market treats it accordingly: it trades at a multiple of list like every other Aquanaut, and Patek's own US list price for it climbed about a tenth between December 2024 and September 2026.
Specs
Case: 38.8 mm × 7.9 mm, steel, 48-diamond bezel
Movement: Cal. E 23-250 S C, quartz, about three-year battery
Signature: single row of 48 diamonds on the rounded-octagonal bezel
Reference: 5267/200A-011
Year: 2021–present
Approx. price: US$ 74,800
Market note: Wristcheck's three green 5267/200A-011s ask US$ 74,800 to US$ 86,000 in September 2026, about three times Patek's US list price of US$ 24,632. That list has climbed roughly 10% since December 2024, when it stood at US$ 22,270, and dealer listings that left the market in September 2026 ran from about US$ 66,000 to US$ 72,000.
A 38.8 mm quartz Aquanaut with diamonds, and not the small one
Luce is Patek's name for the diamond-set Aquanaut, from the Italian word for light, and the line has existed since 2004. For most of that time the quartz Luce was a small watch, 35.6 mm across, which is the version most people still picture when they hear the name. In May 2021 Patek relaunched it at 38.8 mm, only two millimeters under the steel Travel Time, in three dial colors borrowed from the men's line, and this khaki green -011 is one of the three.
It is 7.9 mm thick, it has a screw-down crown, and the launch material rates it to 120 m, so it is a more serious watch than its reputation.
The diamonds are the signature. A single row of 48 round-cut stones sits in the rounded-octagonal bezel; Patek's website puts the total at 1.17 carats while the 2021 launch material said 1.11. The dial is a varnished khaki green with the embossed Aquanaut pattern and white gold applied numerals, matched to a khaki composite strap with a steel fold-over clasp. What runs it is the quartz caliber E 23-250 S C, 80 parts and 8 jewels on a silver-oxide battery that lasts about three years.
That last detail is the thing to understand about the price. On the green Patek Philippe Aquanaut Luce 5267/200A-011 almost none of what you pay is for the movement. You are paying for the case, the diamonds and the name, and the market treats it accordingly: it trades at a multiple of list like every other Aquanaut, and Patek's own US list price for it climbed about a tenth between December 2024 and September 2026.
Specs
Case: 38.8 mm × 7.9 mm, steel, 48-diamond bezel
Movement: Cal. E 23-250 S C, quartz, about three-year battery
Signature: single row of 48 diamonds on the rounded-octagonal bezel
Reference: 5267/200A-011
Year: 2021–present
Approx. price: US$ 74,800
Market note: Wristcheck's three green 5267/200A-011s ask US$ 74,800 to US$ 86,000 in September 2026, about three times Patek's US list price of US$ 24,632. That list has climbed roughly 10% since December 2024, when it stood at US$ 22,270, and dealer listings that left the market in September 2026 ran from about US$ 66,000 to US$ 72,000.
7. Patek Philippe Aquanaut Travel Time 5269R-001
A quartz Patek that costs twice its list price
A battery-powered Patek in solid rose gold sounds like a contradiction, and the way Patek handles it explains the watch. The caliber inside, the E 23-250 S FUS 24H, was the first quartz movement Patek ever fitted with a complication. It arrived in 2021 inside the diamond-set Luce 5269/200R, and the rose gold Patek Philippe Aquanaut Travel Time 5269R-001, shown at Watches and Wonders 2024, is that watch with the diamonds taken off, which is why Patek files it under Aquanaut Travel Time rather than Luce.
Travel Time is Patek's name for a second time zone shown by a second hour hand, with a day and night indicator for each zone. On the mechanical Travel Times the local hour is moved with two pushers on the left of the case; here there are no pushers at all. The second zone is set through the crown by a clutch pinion, so the left flank of the 38.8 mm case is completely smooth, and a small HOME label sits above the day and night aperture at six o'clock to tell you which hand is which, an addition the 2021 watch did without.
At 8.77 mm thick, on an opaline blue-gray dial with rose gold applied numerals and a matching composite strap, it wears like the mechanical rose gold Travel Time at roughly half that watch's list price, which is the point of it. Patek quotes 30 m of water resistance, although the launch material for the identical 2021 case said 60 m, so treat it as a dress watch rather than a diver.
Specs
Case: 38.8 mm × 8.77 mm, rose gold
Movement: Cal. E 23-250 S FUS 24H, quartz travel time, about three-year battery
Signature: crown-set second time zone with no pushers, and a HOME label at six o'clock
Reference: 5269R-001
Year: 2024–present
Approx. price: US$ 78,900
Market note: Wristcheck's three 5269R-001s ask US$ 78,900 to US$ 83,000 in September 2026, a little over double the US$ 35,350 list price it launched at in 2024. On Patek's December 2024 US list it sat at US$ 35,350 against US$ 63,040 for the mechanical rose gold 5164R, so the quartz Travel Time lists at about half the mechanical one and asks double its own list pre-owned.
A quartz Patek that costs twice its list price
A battery-powered Patek in solid rose gold sounds like a contradiction, and the way Patek handles it explains the watch. The caliber inside, the E 23-250 S FUS 24H, was the first quartz movement Patek ever fitted with a complication. It arrived in 2021 inside the diamond-set Luce 5269/200R, and the rose gold Patek Philippe Aquanaut Travel Time 5269R-001, shown at Watches and Wonders 2024, is that watch with the diamonds taken off, which is why Patek files it under Aquanaut Travel Time rather than Luce.
Travel Time is Patek's name for a second time zone shown by a second hour hand, with a day and night indicator for each zone. On the mechanical Travel Times the local hour is moved with two pushers on the left of the case; here there are no pushers at all. The second zone is set through the crown by a clutch pinion, so the left flank of the 38.8 mm case is completely smooth, and a small HOME label sits above the day and night aperture at six o'clock to tell you which hand is which, an addition the 2021 watch did without.
At 8.77 mm thick, on an opaline blue-gray dial with rose gold applied numerals and a matching composite strap, it wears like the mechanical rose gold Travel Time at roughly half that watch's list price, which is the point of it. Patek quotes 30 m of water resistance, although the launch material for the identical 2021 case said 60 m, so treat it as a dress watch rather than a diver.
Specs
Case: 38.8 mm × 8.77 mm, rose gold
Movement: Cal. E 23-250 S FUS 24H, quartz travel time, about three-year battery
Signature: crown-set second time zone with no pushers, and a HOME label at six o'clock
Reference: 5269R-001
Year: 2024–present
Approx. price: US$ 78,900
Market note: Wristcheck's three 5269R-001s ask US$ 78,900 to US$ 83,000 in September 2026, a little over double the US$ 35,350 list price it launched at in 2024. On Patek's December 2024 US list it sat at US$ 35,350 against US$ 63,040 for the mechanical rose gold 5164R, so the quartz Travel Time lists at about half the mechanical one and asks double its own list pre-owned.
8. Patek Philippe Aquanaut Travel Time 5164A-001
Thirteen years as the reasonable choice, then gone
When the 5164A appeared in 2011 it was the first complicated Aquanaut, and for the next thirteen years it was the sensible way to buy one: a complication in steel, at a steel price, in a line that otherwise offered you a time-and-date watch or a jump to gold. Patek retired it in February 2024 and replaced it with the white gold 5164G two months later, so the steel Patek Philippe Aquanaut Travel Time 5164A-001 is now the only steel Travel Time Patek has ever made, and a pre-owned one is the only way to own it.
It helps to know what a Travel Time is, because it is not a GMT. A GMT watch adds a fourth hand reading against a 24-hour scale. Patek's system uses two ordinary 12-hour hour hands, one solid for local time and one skeletonized underneath it for home time, with a small aperture for each showing day or night.
Press the pusher at eight o'clock and the local hand jumps back an hour; press the one at ten and it jumps forward; the home hand never moves. When you are not traveling the two hands sit on top of each other and the watch reads like any other Aquanaut.
The case is the same 40.8 mm steel as the 5167, rated to 120 m with a screw-down crown, and the caliber 324 S C FUS behind it runs at 4 Hz with a 45-hour reserve and 294 parts. Thirteen years of production means there are plenty to choose from, which is not something you can say about many discontinued Pateks, and it is the reason this one sits on our own list of watches we would buy.
Specs
Case: 40.8 mm, steel
Movement: Cal. 324 S C FUS, automatic travel time, 45 h
Signature: two left-flank pushers stepping the local hour, with white and dark blue day/night apertures
Reference: 5164A-001
Year: 2011–2024 (discontinued)
Approx. price: US$ 104,800
Market note: Wristcheck's three 5164A-001s ask US$ 104,800 to US$ 112,800 in September 2026, more than double the roughly US$ 45,900 quoted as its last list price on an undated source, and three times its US$ 34,000 sticker of 2016. A Singapore dealer's listing left the market at about US$ 86,300 in September 2026, so Wristcheck's asks sit at the top of the range.
Thirteen years as the reasonable choice, then gone
When the 5164A appeared in 2011 it was the first complicated Aquanaut, and for the next thirteen years it was the sensible way to buy one: a complication in steel, at a steel price, in a line that otherwise offered you a time-and-date watch or a jump to gold. Patek retired it in February 2024 and replaced it with the white gold 5164G two months later, so the steel Patek Philippe Aquanaut Travel Time 5164A-001 is now the only steel Travel Time Patek has ever made, and a pre-owned one is the only way to own it.
It helps to know what a Travel Time is, because it is not a GMT. A GMT watch adds a fourth hand reading against a 24-hour scale. Patek's system uses two ordinary 12-hour hour hands, one solid for local time and one skeletonized underneath it for home time, with a small aperture for each showing day or night.
Press the pusher at eight o'clock and the local hand jumps back an hour; press the one at ten and it jumps forward; the home hand never moves. When you are not traveling the two hands sit on top of each other and the watch reads like any other Aquanaut.
The case is the same 40.8 mm steel as the 5167, rated to 120 m with a screw-down crown, and the caliber 324 S C FUS behind it runs at 4 Hz with a 45-hour reserve and 294 parts. Thirteen years of production means there are plenty to choose from, which is not something you can say about many discontinued Pateks, and it is the reason this one sits on our own list of watches we would buy.
Specs
Case: 40.8 mm, steel
Movement: Cal. 324 S C FUS, automatic travel time, 45 h
Signature: two left-flank pushers stepping the local hour, with white and dark blue day/night apertures
Reference: 5164A-001
Year: 2011–2024 (discontinued)
Approx. price: US$ 104,800
Market note: Wristcheck's three 5164A-001s ask US$ 104,800 to US$ 112,800 in September 2026, more than double the roughly US$ 45,900 quoted as its last list price on an undated source, and three times its US$ 34,000 sticker of 2016. A Singapore dealer's listing left the market at about US$ 86,300 in September 2026, so Wristcheck's asks sit at the top of the range.
9. Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5168G-010
Khaki green on the 42.2 mm Jumbo case, two years after the blue
The khaki green 5168G-010 came to the 42.2 mm white gold Jumbo case in 2019, two years after the blue anniversary watch of 2017, and dealers who sell the green as the anniversary model are selling the wrong dial. The color has a history of its own: Patek first put khaki green on a clients-only steel 5167A-010 in 2011, and the demand for that watch on social media is what brought the green back.
For a watch called Jumbo it is remarkably thin, 8.25 mm. Everything on it that could be white gold is white gold: the applied numerals, the baton hands, the fold-over clasp. The dial and the composite strap both carry the embossed checkerboard, and the whole thing is rated to 120 m with a screw-down crown, whatever the website says.
Buying one means checking the caliber, and it is the one difference the green Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5168G-010 does not show on its face. The 2019 watches carry the 324 S C; later ones carry the 26-330 S C, the update Patek introduced in 2019 that added a stop-seconds function so the watch can be set to the second. It is still in the catalog, and no other Aquanaut on this list has sold across such a wide spread at auction, which says something about how differently people value the two generations.
Specs
Case: 42.2 mm × 8.25 mm, white gold
Movement: Cal. 26-330 S C (Cal. 324 S C in 2019 watches), automatic, 35–45 h
Signature: the 42.2 mm Jumbo case in solid white gold with white gold numerals, hands and clasp
Reference: 5168G-010
Year: 2019–present
Approx. price: US$ 107,100
Market note: Wristcheck's five 5168G-010s ask US$ 107,100 to US$ 132,800 in September 2026, roughly three times the US$ 39,690 it launched at in 2019, and its European list had risen to EUR 52,000 by January 2026. Auction results run under the asks, about US$ 113,800 in December 2025 and US$ 99,600 in August 2026, with one outlier at US$ 203,200 in June 2026.
Khaki green on the 42.2 mm Jumbo case, two years after the blue
The khaki green 5168G-010 came to the 42.2 mm white gold Jumbo case in 2019, two years after the blue anniversary watch of 2017, and dealers who sell the green as the anniversary model are selling the wrong dial. The color has a history of its own: Patek first put khaki green on a clients-only steel 5167A-010 in 2011, and the demand for that watch on social media is what brought the green back.
For a watch called Jumbo it is remarkably thin, 8.25 mm. Everything on it that could be white gold is white gold: the applied numerals, the baton hands, the fold-over clasp. The dial and the composite strap both carry the embossed checkerboard, and the whole thing is rated to 120 m with a screw-down crown, whatever the website says.
Buying one means checking the caliber, and it is the one difference the green Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5168G-010 does not show on its face. The 2019 watches carry the 324 S C; later ones carry the 26-330 S C, the update Patek introduced in 2019 that added a stop-seconds function so the watch can be set to the second. It is still in the catalog, and no other Aquanaut on this list has sold across such a wide spread at auction, which says something about how differently people value the two generations.
Specs
Case: 42.2 mm × 8.25 mm, white gold
Movement: Cal. 26-330 S C (Cal. 324 S C in 2019 watches), automatic, 35–45 h
Signature: the 42.2 mm Jumbo case in solid white gold with white gold numerals, hands and clasp
Reference: 5168G-010
Year: 2019–present
Approx. price: US$ 107,100
Market note: Wristcheck's five 5168G-010s ask US$ 107,100 to US$ 132,800 in September 2026, roughly three times the US$ 39,690 it launched at in 2019, and its European list had risen to EUR 52,000 by January 2026. Auction results run under the asks, about US$ 113,800 in December 2025 and US$ 99,600 in August 2026, with one outlier at US$ 203,200 in June 2026.
10. Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5167R-001
One reference number, two dials and two calibers
The rose gold 5167R followed the steel 5167A into the catalog in 2009, two years after the steel watch introduced the 40.8 mm case, and it has stayed there ever since. Seventeen years is a long life for a modern Patek reference, and long lives hide changes. An early 5167R-001 is not the same watch as one made this year, and a buyer quoting one price for the reference is quoting two watches.
The first difference is the dial. Early examples are described by Patek and by the auction houses as a flat chocolate-brown embossed dial; the current watch has a sunburst brown dial with a black gradient at the rim, the smoky treatment Patek has used across the line in recent years. The second is the movement. Early watches carry the caliber 324 S C, the same one the steel 5167 used from 2008, while current production carries the 26-330 S C with its stop-seconds.
What has not changed is the pairing that defines the rose gold Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5167R-001: solid rose gold applied numerals and baton hands on a dark brown composite strap, with a rose gold fold-over clasp, in the 40.8 mm by 8.1 mm case of the steel watch.
Because it is still in production it has a list price, and that list price moved by just under 5% in Patek's April 2026 round of increases outside the United States, a little ahead of the average for that round. It does not have a published US list at all in the sources we could find, which is why the market note below anchors on the European figure.
Specs
Case: 40.8 mm × 8.1 mm, rose gold
Movement: Cal. 26-330 S C (Cal. 324 S C in early watches), automatic, 35–45 h
Signature: rose gold numerals and hands on the dark brown composite strap
Reference: 5167R-001
Year: 2009–present
Approx. price: US$ 108,800
Market note: Wristcheck's four 5167R-001s ask US$ 108,800 to US$ 156,200 in September 2026, against a European list price of EUR 48,200 in January 2026, the only dated official figure for the reference. Auction results moved from US$ 88,900 in December 2025 to US$ 110,735 in June 2026.
One reference number, two dials and two calibers
The rose gold 5167R followed the steel 5167A into the catalog in 2009, two years after the steel watch introduced the 40.8 mm case, and it has stayed there ever since. Seventeen years is a long life for a modern Patek reference, and long lives hide changes. An early 5167R-001 is not the same watch as one made this year, and a buyer quoting one price for the reference is quoting two watches.
The first difference is the dial. Early examples are described by Patek and by the auction houses as a flat chocolate-brown embossed dial; the current watch has a sunburst brown dial with a black gradient at the rim, the smoky treatment Patek has used across the line in recent years. The second is the movement. Early watches carry the caliber 324 S C, the same one the steel 5167 used from 2008, while current production carries the 26-330 S C with its stop-seconds.
What has not changed is the pairing that defines the rose gold Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5167R-001: solid rose gold applied numerals and baton hands on a dark brown composite strap, with a rose gold fold-over clasp, in the 40.8 mm by 8.1 mm case of the steel watch.
Because it is still in production it has a list price, and that list price moved by just under 5% in Patek's April 2026 round of increases outside the United States, a little ahead of the average for that round. It does not have a published US list at all in the sources we could find, which is why the market note below anchors on the European figure.
Specs
Case: 40.8 mm × 8.1 mm, rose gold
Movement: Cal. 26-330 S C (Cal. 324 S C in early watches), automatic, 35–45 h
Signature: rose gold numerals and hands on the dark brown composite strap
Reference: 5167R-001
Year: 2009–present
Approx. price: US$ 108,800
Market note: Wristcheck's four 5167R-001s ask US$ 108,800 to US$ 156,200 in September 2026, against a European list price of EUR 48,200 in January 2026, the only dated official figure for the reference. Auction results moved from US$ 88,900 in December 2025 to US$ 110,735 in June 2026.
11. Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5168G-001
The twentieth-anniversary Jumbo, in blue, and not a limited edition
Jumbo is an old Aquanaut word with two meanings twenty years apart. Patek first used it in 1998 for the 38 mm 5065, the bigger brother of the original 35.6 mm watch, and it came back at Baselworld 2017 when Patek marked the Aquanaut's twentieth anniversary with this watch: a 42.2 mm case in white gold, the first time the men's Aquanaut had been made in white gold at all, and only 8.25 mm thick because the case has only ever held a time-and-date movement. A search for a Jumbo Aquanaut brings up two very different watches, and this is the modern one.
The dial is the reference's calling card, a sunburst blue that fades to a black gradient at the rim over the embossed Aquanaut pattern, with applied white gold numerals, on a midnight blue composite strap closed by a white gold fold-over clasp rather than the steel one of the 5167A. It launched with the caliber 324 S C, the same movement as the steel 5167 of the day, and current production carries the 26-330 S C with its stop-seconds, so as with the green version a buyer should ask which one is inside.
The thing to unlearn about the blue Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5168G-001 is that it is a limited edition. It was launched for the anniversary, but it is a standard catalog reference, still in production in September 2026, and the khaki green -010 followed it into the same case two years later.
Specs
Case: 42.2 mm × 8.25 mm, white gold
Movement: Cal. 26-330 S C (Cal. 324 S C at launch), automatic, 35–45 h
Signature: sunburst blue dial fading to a black-gradient rim, the first white gold men's Aquanaut
Reference: 5168G-001
Year: 2017–present
Approx. price: US$ 109,000
Market note: Wristcheck's three 5168G-001s ask US$ 109,000 to US$ 134,300 in September 2026, roughly three times the US$ 38,557 it launched at in 2017, and its European list had reached EUR 52,000 by January 2026. An example sold for CHF 82,550 at auction in Geneva in September 2026 against an estimate of CHF 40,000 to 80,000, so the wider market sits under Wristcheck's asks.
The twentieth-anniversary Jumbo, in blue, and not a limited edition
Jumbo is an old Aquanaut word with two meanings twenty years apart. Patek first used it in 1998 for the 38 mm 5065, the bigger brother of the original 35.6 mm watch, and it came back at Baselworld 2017 when Patek marked the Aquanaut's twentieth anniversary with this watch: a 42.2 mm case in white gold, the first time the men's Aquanaut had been made in white gold at all, and only 8.25 mm thick because the case has only ever held a time-and-date movement. A search for a Jumbo Aquanaut brings up two very different watches, and this is the modern one.
The dial is the reference's calling card, a sunburst blue that fades to a black gradient at the rim over the embossed Aquanaut pattern, with applied white gold numerals, on a midnight blue composite strap closed by a white gold fold-over clasp rather than the steel one of the 5167A. It launched with the caliber 324 S C, the same movement as the steel 5167 of the day, and current production carries the 26-330 S C with its stop-seconds, so as with the green version a buyer should ask which one is inside.
The thing to unlearn about the blue Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5168G-001 is that it is a limited edition. It was launched for the anniversary, but it is a standard catalog reference, still in production in September 2026, and the khaki green -010 followed it into the same case two years later.
Specs
Case: 42.2 mm × 8.25 mm, white gold
Movement: Cal. 26-330 S C (Cal. 324 S C at launch), automatic, 35–45 h
Signature: sunburst blue dial fading to a black-gradient rim, the first white gold men's Aquanaut
Reference: 5168G-001
Year: 2017–present
Approx. price: US$ 109,000
Market note: Wristcheck's three 5168G-001s ask US$ 109,000 to US$ 134,300 in September 2026, roughly three times the US$ 38,557 it launched at in 2017, and its European list had reached EUR 52,000 by January 2026. An example sold for CHF 82,550 at auction in Geneva in September 2026 against an estimate of CHF 40,000 to 80,000, so the wider market sits under Wristcheck's asks.
12. Patek Philippe Aquanaut Chronograph 5968G-010
A flyback Jumbo with no running seconds
Patek put the Aquanaut chronograph into white gold in May 2021, three years after the steel original, in two dials at once: this khaki green and a blue 5968G-001. The case is the 42.2 mm Jumbo footprint, but at 11.9 mm it is 3.65 mm thicker than the time-and-date 5168G, and the difference is the movement. The caliber CH 28-520 C is the same flyback chronograph Patek uses in the Nautilus chronograph: a column wheel to control the pushers, a vertical clutch so the seconds hand starts without a jump, and a flyback function that resets and restarts the timer with a single press instead of the usual three.
The dial tells you how the movement is arranged. There is one sub-dial, a 60-minute counter at six o'clock whose octagonal outline echoes the bezel, and there is no running seconds hand anywhere, because the central seconds hand belongs to the chronograph. Unless you are timing something, the watch shows hours, minutes and the date at three. One thing worth knowing before you open the box: the steel 5968A shipped with two straps, the white gold references came with one, so a single strap here is not a missing accessory.
The white gold Patek Philippe Aquanaut Chronograph 5968G-010 is also the Aquanaut a buyer can actually choose between. Eight were for sale on Wristcheck at the September 2026 update, more than any other reference on this list, at a time when the auction record for the whole 5968 family was still thin: by March 2023 only fifteen examples across all three metals had passed through the three largest auction houses since the reference launched.
Specs
Case: 42.2 mm × 11.9 mm, white gold
Movement: Cal. CH 28-520 C, automatic flyback chronograph, 45–55 h
Signature: octagonal 60-minute counter at six o'clock, no running seconds
Reference: 5968G-010
Year: 2021–present
Approx. price: US$ 115,000
Market note: Wristcheck's eight 5968G-010s ask US$ 115,000 to US$ 157,000 in September 2026, the deepest supply of any Aquanaut on this list, against a launch price of US$ 69,190 in May 2021 and a European list of EUR 80,000 in January 2026. Two 2026 auction results, about US$ 139,400 in August and US$ 125,500 in September, sit in the lower half of Wristcheck's range.
A flyback Jumbo with no running seconds
Patek put the Aquanaut chronograph into white gold in May 2021, three years after the steel original, in two dials at once: this khaki green and a blue 5968G-001. The case is the 42.2 mm Jumbo footprint, but at 11.9 mm it is 3.65 mm thicker than the time-and-date 5168G, and the difference is the movement. The caliber CH 28-520 C is the same flyback chronograph Patek uses in the Nautilus chronograph: a column wheel to control the pushers, a vertical clutch so the seconds hand starts without a jump, and a flyback function that resets and restarts the timer with a single press instead of the usual three.
The dial tells you how the movement is arranged. There is one sub-dial, a 60-minute counter at six o'clock whose octagonal outline echoes the bezel, and there is no running seconds hand anywhere, because the central seconds hand belongs to the chronograph. Unless you are timing something, the watch shows hours, minutes and the date at three. One thing worth knowing before you open the box: the steel 5968A shipped with two straps, the white gold references came with one, so a single strap here is not a missing accessory.
The white gold Patek Philippe Aquanaut Chronograph 5968G-010 is also the Aquanaut a buyer can actually choose between. Eight were for sale on Wristcheck at the September 2026 update, more than any other reference on this list, at a time when the auction record for the whole 5968 family was still thin: by March 2023 only fifteen examples across all three metals had passed through the three largest auction houses since the reference launched.
Specs
Case: 42.2 mm × 11.9 mm, white gold
Movement: Cal. CH 28-520 C, automatic flyback chronograph, 45–55 h
Signature: octagonal 60-minute counter at six o'clock, no running seconds
Reference: 5968G-010
Year: 2021–present
Approx. price: US$ 115,000
Market note: Wristcheck's eight 5968G-010s ask US$ 115,000 to US$ 157,000 in September 2026, the deepest supply of any Aquanaut on this list, against a launch price of US$ 69,190 in May 2021 and a European list of EUR 80,000 in January 2026. Two 2026 auction results, about US$ 139,400 in August and US$ 125,500 in September, sit in the lower half of Wristcheck's range.
13. Patek Philippe Aquanaut Chronograph 5968G-001
The blue chronograph, priced a third above the green it launched with
The two white gold chronographs of May 2021 are usually sold as the same watch in two colours, and they are not. The blue 5968G-001 carries a sunburst dial that darkens to a black gradient at the rim, the treatment Patek gave the charcoal dial of the steel original, with white luminous numerals, while the khaki green 5968G-010 has a flat varnished dial with no gradient and a greenish glow. Neither colour was invented for the chronograph. They came from the time-only Jumbo, where the blue was the twentieth-anniversary dial of 2017 and the green its 2019 follow-up, so the chronograph arrived wearing dials the collection already knew. Inside is the same caliber CH 28-520 C flyback as the steel 5968A and the green, in the same 42.2 mm case at the same 11.9 mm.
Patek lists the blue and the green at the same price, and the market has ignored that. Wristcheck's own ledger shows the gap opening: asks for the blue have risen by roughly a third since the first one it listed in July 2024, and the six for sale in September 2026 start about a third above the green on the same day, with the blue the scarcer of the two on the site. Nothing in the specification explains the difference, since apart from the dial the two watches are identical. The premium is the market's verdict on a colour, and it has been widening for two years.
The white gold Patek Philippe Aquanaut Chronograph 5968G-001 is still in Patek's catalog in September 2026, and the family around it has grown: a rose gold 5968R-001 with a sunburst brown dial followed in 2023, so there are now four Aquanaut chronographs in three metals. A buyer weighing the auction room against a dealer should know that a blue example sold at auction in Hong Kong in May 2026 for nearly half again over its estimate and still below every ask on Wristcheck, which is the shape of this reference: the saleroom asks less, the dealer has the piece today.
Specs
Case: 42.2 mm × 11.9 mm, white gold
Movement: Cal. CH 28-520 C, automatic flyback chronograph, 45–55 h
Signature: sunburst blue dial fading to a black-gradient rim, the only white gold chronograph dial with a gradient
Reference: 5968G-001
Year: 2021–present
Approx. price: US$ 148,300
Market note: Wristcheck's six 5968G-001s ask US$ 148,300 to US$ 176,600 in September 2026, more than double the US$ 69,190 it launched at in May 2021 and about a third above the khaki green that shares its list price. The blue Wristcheck listed in July 2024 asked US$ 112,800 and the one it listed in January 2026 asked US$ 145,600, and a Hong Kong auction result of about US$ 129,600 in May 2026 sits under every live ask.
The blue chronograph, priced a third above the green it launched with
The two white gold chronographs of May 2021 are usually sold as the same watch in two colours, and they are not. The blue 5968G-001 carries a sunburst dial that darkens to a black gradient at the rim, the treatment Patek gave the charcoal dial of the steel original, with white luminous numerals, while the khaki green 5968G-010 has a flat varnished dial with no gradient and a greenish glow. Neither colour was invented for the chronograph. They came from the time-only Jumbo, where the blue was the twentieth-anniversary dial of 2017 and the green its 2019 follow-up, so the chronograph arrived wearing dials the collection already knew. Inside is the same caliber CH 28-520 C flyback as the steel 5968A and the green, in the same 42.2 mm case at the same 11.9 mm.
Patek lists the blue and the green at the same price, and the market has ignored that. Wristcheck's own ledger shows the gap opening: asks for the blue have risen by roughly a third since the first one it listed in July 2024, and the six for sale in September 2026 start about a third above the green on the same day, with the blue the scarcer of the two on the site. Nothing in the specification explains the difference, since apart from the dial the two watches are identical. The premium is the market's verdict on a colour, and it has been widening for two years.
The white gold Patek Philippe Aquanaut Chronograph 5968G-001 is still in Patek's catalog in September 2026, and the family around it has grown: a rose gold 5968R-001 with a sunburst brown dial followed in 2023, so there are now four Aquanaut chronographs in three metals. A buyer weighing the auction room against a dealer should know that a blue example sold at auction in Hong Kong in May 2026 for nearly half again over its estimate and still below every ask on Wristcheck, which is the shape of this reference: the saleroom asks less, the dealer has the piece today.
Specs
Case: 42.2 mm × 11.9 mm, white gold
Movement: Cal. CH 28-520 C, automatic flyback chronograph, 45–55 h
Signature: sunburst blue dial fading to a black-gradient rim, the only white gold chronograph dial with a gradient
Reference: 5968G-001
Year: 2021–present
Approx. price: US$ 148,300
Market note: Wristcheck's six 5968G-001s ask US$ 148,300 to US$ 176,600 in September 2026, more than double the US$ 69,190 it launched at in May 2021 and about a third above the khaki green that shares its list price. The blue Wristcheck listed in July 2024 asked US$ 112,800 and the one it listed in January 2026 asked US$ 145,600, and a Hong Kong auction result of about US$ 129,600 in May 2026 sits under every live ask.
14. Patek Philippe Aquanaut Chronograph 5968A-001
First Aquanaut chronograph, in steel, and three times its list price
For its first twenty-one years the Aquanaut never had a chronograph, and when one arrived at Baselworld 2018 it came in steel with orange accents and a spare orange strap in the box, the loudest thing Patek had made in a long time. The 5968A-001 is 42.2 mm across and 11.9 mm thick, rated to 120 m, and it runs the same column-wheel, vertical-clutch flyback caliber CH 28-520 C as the Nautilus chronograph, with one 60-minute counter at six o'clock and no running seconds. The dial is a sunburst charcoal gray that shades to black at the rim, and it ships on a black composite strap with the orange one as a second.
It is still in Patek's catalog in September 2026, which is the source of a common confusion, because it is nearly impossible to buy new. The US retailer that lists it will only quote the price in store, to clients it chooses, so anyone without an appointment and a history with the brand buys the steel Patek Philippe Aquanaut Chronograph 5968A-001 pre-owned, at whatever the pre-owned market asks. That, not any change to the watch, is why it costs roughly three times its list price.
Two things are said about it that are not true. The first is that Patek has discontinued it, which it has not. The second is that it is only rated to 30 m, which comes from the figure on Patek's website and is contradicted by Patek's own launch material, the reviews and the retailer's listing, all of which say 120 m.
Specs
Case: 42.2 mm × 11.9 mm, steel
Movement: Cal. CH 28-520 C, automatic flyback chronograph, 45–55 h
Signature: single 60-minute counter at six, orange accents, and a second orange strap in the box
Reference: 5968A-001
Year: 2018–present
Approx. price: US$ 164,400
Market note: Wristcheck's four 5968A-001s ask US$ 164,400 to US$ 199,200 in September 2026, nearly three times its US$ 61,766 US list price, which its American retailer will only quote in store. It launched at CHF 38,600 in 2018, about US$ 40,500 then, and a March 2026 auction result of CHF 107,950, about US$ 122,000, sits well under Wristcheck's asks, so this is a reference where the gap between auction and dealer is wide.
First Aquanaut chronograph, in steel, and three times its list price
For its first twenty-one years the Aquanaut never had a chronograph, and when one arrived at Baselworld 2018 it came in steel with orange accents and a spare orange strap in the box, the loudest thing Patek had made in a long time. The 5968A-001 is 42.2 mm across and 11.9 mm thick, rated to 120 m, and it runs the same column-wheel, vertical-clutch flyback caliber CH 28-520 C as the Nautilus chronograph, with one 60-minute counter at six o'clock and no running seconds. The dial is a sunburst charcoal gray that shades to black at the rim, and it ships on a black composite strap with the orange one as a second.
It is still in Patek's catalog in September 2026, which is the source of a common confusion, because it is nearly impossible to buy new. The US retailer that lists it will only quote the price in store, to clients it chooses, so anyone without an appointment and a history with the brand buys the steel Patek Philippe Aquanaut Chronograph 5968A-001 pre-owned, at whatever the pre-owned market asks. That, not any change to the watch, is why it costs roughly three times its list price.
Two things are said about it that are not true. The first is that Patek has discontinued it, which it has not. The second is that it is only rated to 30 m, which comes from the figure on Patek's website and is contradicted by Patek's own launch material, the reviews and the retailer's listing, all of which say 120 m.
Specs
Case: 42.2 mm × 11.9 mm, steel
Movement: Cal. CH 28-520 C, automatic flyback chronograph, 45–55 h
Signature: single 60-minute counter at six, orange accents, and a second orange strap in the box
Reference: 5968A-001
Year: 2018–present
Approx. price: US$ 164,400
Market note: Wristcheck's four 5968A-001s ask US$ 164,400 to US$ 199,200 in September 2026, nearly three times its US$ 61,766 US list price, which its American retailer will only quote in store. It launched at CHF 38,600 in 2018, about US$ 40,500 then, and a March 2026 auction result of CHF 107,950, about US$ 122,000, sits well under Wristcheck's asks, so this is a reference where the gap between auction and dealer is wide.
15. Patek Philippe Aquanaut Travel Time 5164G-001
White gold replaced steel, and 120 m became 30
The Travel Time moved into gold in stages. Steel came first, with the 5164A in 2011. Rose gold followed in 2016 as the 5164R. White gold arrived last, at Watches and Wonders in April 2024, as the white gold Patek Philippe Aquanaut Travel Time 5164G-001, two months after the steel watch had been removed from the catalog. It took the steel watch's place, not just its case: the same 40.8 mm at 10.2 mm thick, the same two pushers at eight and ten o'clock moving a second hour hand hidden beneath the local one, now driven by the updated caliber 26-330 S C FUS with 290 parts and 29 jewels.
What the move to gold cost is the water resistance. The steel 5164A was rated to 120 m. This one is rated to 30 m, and unlike the 30 m figure that Patek's website shows for every Aquanaut, this one is real, confirmed in the launch reviews, which called out the drop. It is a Travel Time for the terminal rather than the beach, on an opaline blue-gray dial with white gold luminous numerals and a matching composite strap.
Specs
Case: 40.8 mm × 10.2 mm, white gold
Movement: Cal. 26-330 S C FUS, automatic travel time, 35–45 h
Signature: second hour hand hidden under the local hand, stepped by pushers at eight and ten
Reference: 5164G-001
Year: 2024–present
Approx. price: US$ 174,000
Market note: Wristcheck's four 5164G-001s ask US$ 174,000 to US$ 184,700 in September 2026, around two and a half times the EUR 63,560 it launched at in 2024, roughly US$ 68,000 at the time. A dealer asked about US$ 172,500 for an unworn full set in July 2026, so the white gold Travel Time has held a heavy premium since launch.
White gold replaced steel, and 120 m became 30
The Travel Time moved into gold in stages. Steel came first, with the 5164A in 2011. Rose gold followed in 2016 as the 5164R. White gold arrived last, at Watches and Wonders in April 2024, as the white gold Patek Philippe Aquanaut Travel Time 5164G-001, two months after the steel watch had been removed from the catalog. It took the steel watch's place, not just its case: the same 40.8 mm at 10.2 mm thick, the same two pushers at eight and ten o'clock moving a second hour hand hidden beneath the local one, now driven by the updated caliber 26-330 S C FUS with 290 parts and 29 jewels.
What the move to gold cost is the water resistance. The steel 5164A was rated to 120 m. This one is rated to 30 m, and unlike the 30 m figure that Patek's website shows for every Aquanaut, this one is real, confirmed in the launch reviews, which called out the drop. It is a Travel Time for the terminal rather than the beach, on an opaline blue-gray dial with white gold luminous numerals and a matching composite strap.
Specs
Case: 40.8 mm × 10.2 mm, white gold
Movement: Cal. 26-330 S C FUS, automatic travel time, 35–45 h
Signature: second hour hand hidden under the local hand, stepped by pushers at eight and ten
Reference: 5164G-001
Year: 2024–present
Approx. price: US$ 174,000
Market note: Wristcheck's four 5164G-001s ask US$ 174,000 to US$ 184,700 in September 2026, around two and a half times the EUR 63,560 it launched at in 2024, roughly US$ 68,000 at the time. A dealer asked about US$ 172,500 for an unworn full set in July 2026, so the white gold Travel Time has held a heavy premium since launch.
16. Patek Philippe Aquanaut Luce Annual Calendar 5261R-001
An annual calendar built to be worn by anyone
The Aquanaut had waited twelve years for a second complication when the 5261R was unveiled at Watches and Wonders 2023 as the line's first annual calendar. An annual calendar is a calendar that knows which months have thirty days and which have thirty-one, so it needs correcting once a year, at the end of February, and Patek has made them since 1996. This one is unusual in how it is laid out. Patek's annual calendars normally put the day and month in apertures at twelve and the date at six; here the moon phase sits at twelve, the date in an aperture at six, and the day and month on hands at three and nine, so at a glance the dial reads like a chronograph rather than a calendar.
Patek put it in the Luce range and then built it for anyone. There is not a single diamond on it, the case is 39.9 mm rather than the 39 mm usually quoted, and the design borrows from both sides of the line, the flat borderless dial grid from the men's Aquanaut and the embossed strap pattern from the women's. The rose gold Patek Philippe Aquanaut Luce Annual Calendar 5261R-001 is 10.94 mm thick, on an opaline blue-gray dial with rose gold luminous numerals and a blue-gray composite strap with a rose gold fold-over clasp.
The caliber 26-330 S QA LU has 319 parts and carries the Patek Philippe Seal, and the water resistance is a genuine 30 m rather than the Aquanaut's usual 120, because the four recessed correctors for the calendar are what cost it. Of the thirteen watches on this list it is the most expensive, and the one where the premium over list has widened fastest.
Specs
Case: 39.9 mm × 10.94 mm, rose gold
Movement: Cal. 26-330 S QA LU, automatic annual calendar, 35–45 h
Signature: moon phase at twelve and date at six, the annual calendar layout inverted
Reference: 5261R-001
Year: 2023–present
Approx. price: US$ 218,800
Market note: Wristcheck's one 5261R-001 asks US$ 218,800 in September 2026, three times its US$ 72,394 US list price, which its US retailer does not sell online. Its 2023 launch price of EUR 61,000 was about US$ 66,000, and a September 2025 dealer guide already had it near US$ 151,000, so the premium widened between September 2025 and September 2026.
An annual calendar built to be worn by anyone
The Aquanaut had waited twelve years for a second complication when the 5261R was unveiled at Watches and Wonders 2023 as the line's first annual calendar. An annual calendar is a calendar that knows which months have thirty days and which have thirty-one, so it needs correcting once a year, at the end of February, and Patek has made them since 1996. This one is unusual in how it is laid out. Patek's annual calendars normally put the day and month in apertures at twelve and the date at six; here the moon phase sits at twelve, the date in an aperture at six, and the day and month on hands at three and nine, so at a glance the dial reads like a chronograph rather than a calendar.
Patek put it in the Luce range and then built it for anyone. There is not a single diamond on it, the case is 39.9 mm rather than the 39 mm usually quoted, and the design borrows from both sides of the line, the flat borderless dial grid from the men's Aquanaut and the embossed strap pattern from the women's. The rose gold Patek Philippe Aquanaut Luce Annual Calendar 5261R-001 is 10.94 mm thick, on an opaline blue-gray dial with rose gold luminous numerals and a blue-gray composite strap with a rose gold fold-over clasp.
The caliber 26-330 S QA LU has 319 parts and carries the Patek Philippe Seal, and the water resistance is a genuine 30 m rather than the Aquanaut's usual 120, because the four recessed correctors for the calendar are what cost it. Of the thirteen watches on this list it is the most expensive, and the one where the premium over list has widened fastest.
Specs
Case: 39.9 mm × 10.94 mm, rose gold
Movement: Cal. 26-330 S QA LU, automatic annual calendar, 35–45 h
Signature: moon phase at twelve and date at six, the annual calendar layout inverted
Reference: 5261R-001
Year: 2023–present
Approx. price: US$ 218,800
Market note: Wristcheck's one 5261R-001 asks US$ 218,800 in September 2026, three times its US$ 72,394 US list price, which its US retailer does not sell online. Its 2023 launch price of EUR 61,000 was about US$ 66,000, and a September 2025 dealer guide already had it near US$ 151,000, so the premium widened between September 2025 and September 2026.
Final Thoughts
Spending our own money on an Aquanaut, it would go on the steel Travel Time 5164A-001. It is the only Travel Time Patek ever put in steel, it kept the 120 m rating the white gold 5164G lost, thirteen years in the catalog left enough of them to choose between, and since Patek retired it in 2024 there will never be more. The 5167A is the Aquanaut everyone wants. The 5164A is the one that does something.
Every watch listed on Wristcheck is fully authenticated, transparently priced, and curated with collectors in mind. Whether you're searching for your first Patek Philippe Aquanaut or need a second opinion before making the leap, our team is here to help.
Start browsing, or reach out if you’re ready to lock in the right piece.
Spending our own money on an Aquanaut, it would go on the steel Travel Time 5164A-001. It is the only Travel Time Patek ever put in steel, it kept the 120 m rating the white gold 5164G lost, thirteen years in the catalog left enough of them to choose between, and since Patek retired it in 2024 there will never be more. The 5167A is the Aquanaut everyone wants. The 5164A is the one that does something.
Every watch listed on Wristcheck is fully authenticated, transparently priced, and curated with collectors in mind. Whether you're searching for your first Patek Philippe Aquanaut or need a second opinion before making the leap, our team is here to help.
Start browsing, or reach out if you’re ready to lock in the right piece.