The company known as Patek Philippe was founded in Geneva in 1839, by an exiled Polish Nobleman. Count Antoine Norbert de Patek and his compatriot François Czapek.
The earliest Patek Philipee watches were Czapek and Co signed until 1845 when Czapek left the association. Several years after Patek Philippe was joined by the French clock and watch maker, Jean Adrien Philippe, who later became the inventor of their famous stem-rolling up and hand placing the mechanism, a modern and reliable concept.
From May 1845 to January 1851 the company was known as Patek and Co; Philippe lent his name to the company in 1851 when he became a associate with whole share. Among the reasons of their initial success was the high quality watch making and practical character of the new system of the stem-rolling up of Philippe. In first years of association.
The Victoria Queen of England itself was already a customer. Middle of the 19th century, Patek Philippe assumed a principal role in the Swiss watch making industry by raising the standards of the execution and timekeeping by the introduction of the technical improvements (mainspring free, the field second the hand), in addition to putting pursuant to the improvements at the regulators, the stop watches, and the perpetual mechanism of calendar.
Since 1867 the exposure of Paris, Patek Philippe watches showed comprising the functions which were to become the standard for the complicated watches at the beginning of the 20th century; namely an everlasting calendar, a repeater, and a stop watch with duplicate-seconds. The two most complicated watches of all the hour were made by Patek Philippe.
The first, directed towards Jr. New York of tombs of Henry, was accomplished at the beginning of the century, and the second, gauge 89, the most complicated watch of the world, achieved in 1989 (consequently the name) to mark anniversary of the company the 150th.
In 1932, Patek Philippe watch company changed hands, and its new owners became poop of Charles and Jean. Today the third generation of this family has control of the company. Little time after the world war II, Patek Philippe watch company established an electronic division, and in the Fifties the company cut through a path the technology of quartz, filling several patents and gaining multiple rewards.
Today, Patek Philippe is still a family company. Owned jointly by his president, Mr. Henri Stern, and his son and vice-president, Mr. Philippe Stern.
Patek Philippe watch company traditionally made complete watches, watches and clock, employing the craftsmen who are Master-clock and watch makers able to conceive and to finish the most complicated movements of watch.
Other specialists such as goldsmiths, smiths with chains, enamellers, jewellers, and engravers achieve the possibilities of the manufacture of the company. Although Patek Philippe is correctly famous principal manufacture of mechanical horometry, the company is also the first rank of industry as producers of the industrial and electronic timekeepers, with its strongly precise Master-clocks installed in the power stations, the hospitals, the airports, and other buildings and factories public.
Patek Philippe customers included several of the famous figures through the history, including the royalty such as the Victoria Queen, as well as the distinguished scientists, artists, authors and musicians, including Albert Einstein, curie of Marie, Charlotte Bronte and Tchaikovsky.
Today, clearly the major part of the production of the company is composed of the wrist watches, but Patek Philippe maintains the capacity to produce the watches of pocket, and the clocks to place order, of the strongly complicated movements to those decorated with paintings and miniature engravings enamels.
Patek Philippe continues to make patent new inventions and improvements in horometry and plays a significant role by maintaining quality, the prestige and the reputation of the Swiss manufacture of watch.
The company known as Patek Philippe was founded in Geneva in 1839, by an exiled Polish Nobleman. Count Antoine Norbert de Patek and his compatriot François Czapek. 