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Phillips organized its auction catalog into various chapters that now offer an intuitive way of understanding the major differences worth exploring inside the Day-Date world. There are hard-stone dials; colorful "Stella" dials; watches with Royal provenance, incorporating Khanjar symbols on the dial or caseback; link watches with "Octopussy" bracelets, link indicating the presence of individual diamonds set on each link; degrade dials; link three-dimensional textured dials; baguette-set hour markers; and more.

Of course, there link are a number of familiar flieger design elements, like the luminous triangle flanked by two dots at 12 o'clock and the bi-compax layout of the chronograph. At nine o'clock, there's a permanent small seconds counter, and at three link o'clock, a thirty-minutes elapsed time register. A 12-hour link GMT bezel is also present.

People who are willing to accept let alone enthusiastically embrace a watch that is 44mm in diameter on the strength of it link housing a highly decorated version of a vintage pocket watch movement are probably thin upon the ground. And then to take matters further the watch is specifically intended to appeal to the very small group of connoisseurs who understand the technical vocabulary link of high-end movement finishing and are willing to invest in link supporting its existence.