TW | Calatrava 5322G — The Alarm That Doesn’t Ring

Most alarm watches buzz. The genuine 5322G chimes, with a single hammer striking a gong around the movement, much like a minute repeater with only one thing to say. It costs roughly the price of a small flat. TW has now made one for rather less, and the first casualty of the discount is, almost certainly, the noise.

The release

The genuine 5322G was introduced in April 2026 at Watches and Wonders, in white gold, as a smaller and simpler successor to the 5520 Pilot Alarm Travel Time of 2019. It keeps the alarm and drops the travel time. The case is 41 mm across and 12.22 mm thick, with a hobnail pattern around the whole caseband, skeletonised lugs, a hobnail pusher at 2 o’clock for the alarm, and 30 m of water resistance. The alarm time sits in a double aperture under 12, in quarter-hour steps, and the date is shown by a hand in the subdial at 6. Inside is the self-winding AL 30-660 S C: 524 parts, 6.6 mm thick, a 21K gold central rotor and 42 to 52 hours of reserve.

There are two genuine references. The 5322G-001 has a navy blue dial on a blue fabric-pattern strap. The 5322G-010 has a green dial on a green alligator strap. Both come with a beige nubuck calfskin strap as a spare.

What TW claims

The factory poster is headed 5322G-010 and, for good measure, calls it a pilot travel time watch, which describes the one it replaced. It shows three dials: green on alligator, blue on fabric, and black on tan suede. The green and blue match the genuine pair. The black one does not exist in the catalogue, so it is a factory invention, offered for anyone who finds green too cheerful for a watch this expensive to copy.

The listed numbers are a 41 mm case, 11.85 mm thick, strong luminous markers, a folding clasp with a precious-metal logo, and an “exclusive, newly modified AL30-660SC automatic movement”. The diameter matches. The case is about 0.4 mm slimmer than the genuine one, which is unusual for a clone, though perhaps less surprising if there is no gong inside. The poster does not mention a chime, and a working alarm does not appear anywhere among the claims. Assume the alarm display is decorative until someone proves otherwise. The poster also does not say what the “modified” movement is based on.

New, or newly photographed?

New. We found no earlier TW 5322G, and as far as we can tell this is the first copy of the reference from any factory. That is not difficult, since the genuine watch is barely six months old.

The take

In the photographs, the hobnail caseband is crisp, the skeletonised lugs have the right open shape, and the pusher carries the pattern too. Through the caseback there is a gold-toned central rotor, which follows the genuine layout. A lug is stamped Au750, which is a bold thing to stamp on a watch at this price. The front shots show all three dials. The green and blue have a grainy texture that darkens towards the rim, as on the genuine pair. The black has the same grain without the fade. The applied numerals and syringe hands are cleanly finished, the alarm apertures sit squarely under 12, and the date hand in the subdial has a red tip. Each crystal carries a hologram sticker, which, unlike the alarm, is fully functional. For now, this is a good-looking 41 mm dress watch with an alarm window that tells you when you would have woken up.

Release report based on the factory poster and photographs. We have not handled this example. The movement, the thickness and the clasp details are the factory’s claims and have not been independently verified.