I don’t know if you’d call it bling, but all the diamonds on this Patek Philippe masterpiece, with one on the watch’s face between the lugs at about 6 o’clock and, count’em… THIRTY-SIX more surrounding the bezel, each one of them just about flawless… we’re talking about a piece of jewelry with nearly four carats of Top Wesselton diamonds on it. Sounds pretty blingy to me.

But the owner of this Patek Philippe, musician John Mayer, isn’t the sort of artist one would confuse with Elton John or, for that matter, 50 Cent. In other words, he’s a bit more subtle. And the subtleties of his Patek Philippe are a great part of what makes it such a great watch to have.

The Patek Philippe 5971 (as well as every watch they make) is known for the beauty and perfection of its movement. There are 353 individual moving parts on this timepiece all working in perfect and mesmerizing harmony with one another.

In addition, the watch’s dark black dial displays a wide variety of time indications. The minutes and hours are indicated with white-gold hands. The month and date of the calendar can be seen in two apertures at the 12 o’clock position. It also has smaller dials for the running seconds and the 24-hour indicator at the 9 o’clock position for the 30-minute counter, and finally, the analog date is seen at the 6 o’clock position. Yet with all the features on the dial, it is so well organized that all the information it conveys is easily legible at first glance.

Its platinum case gives the 5971 great heft, density as well as its striking color and it comes with a black alligator leather strap.

This John Mayer guy knows his stuff.