In the title mononuclear complex, [Pt(CH(3))Cl(C(45)H(41)N(3)P(2))], the pyridine-2,6-diamine ligand can be viewed as a centrosymmetric motif having two pendant N-benzyl-N-[(diphenyl-phosphan-yl)meth-yl] arms, the two P atoms of which chelate to the Pt(II) ion, forming a ten-membered metallocycle. A distorted square-planar coordination geometry around the Pt(II) atom is completed by a methyl ligand and a chloride ion. The packing between the mononuclear units is achieved through C-H⋯π inter-actions, which link the mol-ecules into chains along the c axis.