What makes Patek Philippe to special

Swiss watches are considered the best in the world are. The sale of Swiss watches at over $ 8000000000 every year. But for true connoisseurs of the Swiss watches, the best watch in the world is a Patek Philippe watch. But why Watches Patek Philippe are better than others?

Experienced watchmaker and diehard collector Watch has a name that sits at the top of the Watches - Patek Philippe. The company was in Geneva was founded in 1839 by an exiled Polish nobleman count Antoine Norbert de Patek and fellow François Czapek. Czapek of partnership left in 1845. Some years later, Jean Adrien Philippe Patek Antoine joined as a partner and the name Patek Philippe was launched in 1851. From the outset produced Watches Patek Philippe, a marvel of precision mechanics, optics and design were. The outcome was always quite small — about 15,000 per year - but the quality was always second to none. The end of the 19th century. Century the company had driven the top-of-the-range watch market corner.

A quality a clock is defined by the materials used, the technology employed in their creation, and uses the movement of the watch industry. Patek Philippe uses only the best of these three things if you to see.

Patek Philippe produces parts for a clock than any other company, right down to the smallest roles, gears, screws and bracelets. The materials used are the best and the company employs craftsmen goldsmiths jewellers, Emailleure, engravers-, exclusively for the company and its processing is unprecedented.

In the course of Patek Philippe the first to the new technology introduced the watch industry. Jean Adrien Philippe was the inventor of the famous their root winding and pointer mechanism, a modern and reliable approach today still used. So far, Patek Philippe has over 70 patents. The company still leads towards the use of new technologies to watch, in 2006 the company introduced the first wheel in the world in Silicon for anchor gear is made.

Patek Philippe has always watches, the things that no other clock ever previously done and this tradition is still maintained do was produced. The second most complicated movement ever watch was made also a Patek Philippe. The graves Supercomplication Henry graves in 1933 commissioned commissioned by the American financier and shows the night sky over New York City a measure of the sunrise and sunset and the equation of time, the difference between mean time (a 24-hour clock) and solar time.

The calibre was 89 in 1989 the company made celebrate 150th anniversary. The Patek Philippe caliber 89 is complicated movement ever produced. Calibre 89 has 33 complications, including the date of Easter year 2017, a heavenly body that the table includes graphic illustrations and exactly the night sky, the fraction of a second chronograph for measuring elapsed time in fractions of a second and a Grand sonnerie - four gongs, that the time in hours, quarters of an hour and a half hours to beat.

The process of creating a Patek watch begins four years research and development. A minimum is produced by nine months with complicated watches under up to two years. The company provides an examination of each model have six weeks to three months before it is available for sale. Patek watches are no bulk, but individual pieces, each unique.

So, watches make top rated Patek Philippe? No, they make sublime watches. With the best materials, technology and movements, it is not surprising that the best watches of the world to Patek Philippe. A last act why Patek watches are the world's best. Every year makes Rolex and sold more than Patek Philippe watches in its entire history.