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Nov 19, 2024
The history of the officer watch is the history of the wristwatch. The officer-style case originates from the fact that…
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Mar 6, 2024
Names such as ‘Ricochet’, ‘Flying Saucer’, ‘Asymétrie’, ‘Futuriste’ and ‘Tutti Fruitti’ are not normally associated with iconic Patek Philippe watch…
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Mar 30, 2022
Before the advent of electricity, trying to tell the time by reading a watch or a clock in the dark…
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Feb 11, 2022
In this second part of the history of one of Patek Philippe’s most fascinating retailer relationships, Carlos Torres explores the…
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Feb 3, 2022
The retailer Gondolo & Labouriau thrived between the 19th and the 20th century when Rio de Janeiro was the capital…
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Oct 25, 2021
The brilliance of Patek Philippe is that they seem to produce pieces knowing full well that they are making history.…
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Aug 22, 2021
We all have our own reasons to collect. It’s very personal and everyone has a story to tell about why…
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Mar 20, 2021
On one of my first visits to Patek Philippe in Geneva in the 1990s, soon after I had joined the…
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Mar 1, 2021
At Collectability, we take great pride in our scholarship of all things Patek Philippe and nothing gives us more pleasure…
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Feb 13, 2021
In 1921, Albert Einstein was awarded The Nobel Prize in Physics “for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for…
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Feb 6, 2021
Question: What was the first complicated wristwatch made by Patek Philippe for women? Answer: ref. 4864 Travel Time in 1997.…
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Feb 4, 2021
At the Basel watch fair in 1999, four female staff members of Patek Philippe were given a new watch to…
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