The only man's jewelry, it immediately presents you its owner, his personality, value, attitude towards himself and life in general.
Moreover, this watch is passed from generation to generation, and if you already have a Patek Philippe's copy as a relic, and if it was issued no earlier than in 1839, the company will confirm its authenticity with a special certificate. Since Patek Philippe chronometers are not commercial watches and created in small batches, the company can help you reconstructing your example's history. If you want to start a new family tradition, there's sense to think about watch of this brand. Compared with other Swiss watches, Patek Philippe produces not much, about 16 thousand copies a year, with a very limited series. The main value is not material, but the work of masters - the company's watchmakers and designers. As a result, they give birth to real fine mechanics masterpieces: to make each copy corresponding to the highest standards, all details of the mechanism are worked and prepared manually, tested for syncronism within four weeks and undergo many other tests. To give birth to a watch, watch makers also need nine months. These are own style and high quality of complex mechanisms that gave Patek Philippe Swiss masters a well-deserved reputation.
The company was founded in Geneva in 1839, by Polish immigrants Antoine Norbert de Patek and Fran?ois Czapek. Their business was quite simple: they inserted ready timers in bodies of their own production. Later, Jean-Adrien (watchmaker and engineer) became Patek Philippe companion. So, the company received its current name, and we all - an opportunity to start a watch without a special key, through the head. Mr. Philippe «taught» second hand moving fits and starts, counting every second, invented a mechanism that later enabled creating an automatic winding device, and designed watch stroke adjustment device. More than fifty years ago Patek Philippe watchmakers offered public their first collection of classic men's watches named Calatrava, it is a name of a decorative cross - the company's symbol. Gold body, porcelain face, it’s simple and strong design is still modern today.
Patek Philippe Company's business card is model called Golden Ellipse - in oval body, with gold face. Their design is based on golden section principle. This «club» watch's «blue gold» face is secured from any forgery. The company owns an exclusive patent on the sophisticated technology of mixing 18-carat gold and cobalt.
Deco Style of the 30-ies served as the basis for Gondolo models. Masters invented an original way to connect a rectangular case with a heavy gold bracelet. Paying tribute to modern active lifestyle, Patek Philippe offers its connoisseurs the model Nautilus - its body resembles a submarine's porthole, and a bracelet is so unique, that can determine a copy's membership to the sports collection. It is highly reliable and durable; this watch can be worn anywhere and under any circumstances. Screw head winder mechanism protects it from water at the depth of 120 meters.
The company has the honor to release the most complicated watch in the world - Calibri-89 with up to 36 functions and consisting of 1728 parts. The company started producing these watches in 1989, and to date they produced no more than ten copies. They «know» everything that was invented since mechanical clock invention: in addition to actual watch, alarm and «eternal» calendar that displays day, date, month, quarter day, and leap year cycle, there is tourbillion - a mechanism that does not allow gravitational forces affecting the accuracy of course, thermometer, split-chronograph - stop watch with the function of intermediate finish, minute repeater - a device that beats every minute, star map with options for Northern and Southern hemispheres, etc. Calibri-89 cost is $ 3 million, and the chronometer's manufacture requires up to nine years of hard work.
It is quite natural that such watches should be serviced only at specialized company's centers. You can get advice, buy and repair watch in any of the 350 retail offices. Some of the agencies have been cooperating with Patek Philippe since the last century.
A lot of celebrities were the company's clients - from Queen Victoria to Albert Einstein. Patek Philippe chronometers decorated many collections. Leo Tolstoy had Patek Philippe pocket watches, and Tchaikovsky had a gold watch with an unusual openwork face and hands. Purchasing Patek Philippe watches, you get to the elite world, where people know a true value of the best and can afford it to themselves.
