It is interesting what you see when you look carefully at the new Cubitus family from Patek Philippe. You see a following of lines; you see continuity of those lines and the angles. This is a bit different from the extremely popular Nautilus family, which was striking in that it combined somewhat different shapes. In the older and much more familiar watch, if you look, for example, at where the bracelet meets the case and extend that line visually to the bezel and then the dial, you see different lines. In the Cubitus watches the lines follow. When the bracelet expands a bit where it meets the case, it blends in smoothly with the bezel and you don’t really see the case head-on except at the top and bottom. Everything blends rather nicely, including the extended shoulders on the side of the watch. This linearness works well with the straight..
