The Company known today as Patek Philippe was founded in Geneva in
1839, by an exiled Polish Nobleman. Count Antoine Norbert de Patek and
his compatriot Francois Czapek. The earliest watches were signed Patek,
Czapek & co. until 1845 when Czapek left the partnership. Several
years later the company was joined by French watchmaker , Jean Adrien
Philippe, who later became the inventor of their famous stem-winding
and hand setting mechanism, a modern and reliable concept. From May
1845 to January 1851 the firm was known as Patek & Co; Philippe
lent his name to the company in 1851 when he became a full partner.
Among the reasons for their initial success was the high standard of
watch making and practicality of Philippe's new stem-winding system. In
the early years of partnership.
Queen Victoria of England herself was already a client. From the middle
of the 19th century, Patek Philippe assumed a leading role in the Swiss
watchmaking industry by raising the standards of workmanship and time
keeping through the introduction of technical improvements (the free
mainspring, the sweep seconds hand), in addition to implementing
improvements to regulators, chronographs, and perpetual calendar
mechanism. As early as 1867 the Paris Exhibition, Patek Philippe
displayed watches featuring functions that were to become the standard
for complicated watches at the beginning of the 20th century; namely a
perpetual calendar, a repeater, and a chronograph with split-seconds.
The two most complicated watches of all time were made by Patek
Philippe. The first, made for Henry Graves Jr. New York, was completed
at the beginning of the century, and the second, the Caliber 89, the
world's most complicated watch, completed in 1989 (hence the name) to
mark the firm's 150th anniversary. In 1932, Patek Philippe changed
hands, and its new owners became Charles and Jean Stern. Today the
third generation of this family sill owns and manages the company.
Shortly after world war II, Patek Philippe established an electronic
division, and in the 1950's the company pioneered quartz technology,
filling several patents and winning multiple awards. Today, Patek
Philippe SA, Geneva, is still a family company, owned jointly by its
president, Mr Henry Stern, and his son and Vice President, Mr Philippe
Stern. The firm has traditionally made complete timepieces, watches and
clocks, employing craftsmen who are master-watchmakers capable of
designing and finishing the most complicated watch movements.
Other specialists such as goldsmiths, chainsmiths, enamellers,
jewelers, and engravers complete the firm's manufacturing capabilities.
Although Patek Philippe is rightly famous of the leading manufacture of
mechanical horology, the firm is also the forefront of the industry as
producers of industrial and electronic timekeepers, with its highly
accurate master-clocks installed in power stations, hospitals,
airports, and other public buildings and factories. The firm clientele
has included many of the famous figures across history, including
royalty such as Queen Victoria, as well as distinguished scientists,
artists, authors and musicians, including Albert Einstein, Marie Curie,
Charlotte Bronte and Tchaikovsky. Today, clearly most of the firm's
production consists of wristwatches, but Patek Philippe retains the
ability to produce pocket watches,and clocks to order, from highly
complicated movements to those decorated with enamelled miniature
paintings and engravings. The company continues to patent new
inventions and improvements in horology and plays an important role in
maintaining the quality , prestige and reputation of the Swiss
watchmaking.
Patek Philippe produces expensive but extremely well-made watches. They are handcrafted and simply burst with luxury. If you want the best, forget about Rolex, buy Patek Philippe.
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