There were these two dudes.
It was in Paris back in 1844, where Antoni Patek met Adrien Philippe, and they were set to change horology forever-things they probably never knew while geeking out on watch mechanisms.
Patek was this intriguing Polish refugee who, together with another partner, began manufacturing pocket watches in Geneva back in 1839.
It was Philippe, technical genius, who had just invented something completely revolutionary: a serviceless winding mechanism for keys.
Their coming together was, in a horological sense, the equivalent of Jobs meeting Wozniak.
The perfection is absolute, almost an obsessive matter: each and every watch they make-and we're talking here of only 50,000 pieces a year-it takes months to years to get done.
From the development of their own alloys to hand-finishing microscopic parts most anyone would never see, they control every part of the production process.
And yet they still adhere to what they describe as the "family principle": they service every single watch they have ever made, right back to their first timepiece in 1839.
They would fix it if you somehow found their very first pocket watch.
As complicated as renowned, the perpetual calendar mechanism is fitted so precisely that it considers even the leap years, and will not require any further correction until the year 2100.
Every watch is built under the timeworn knowledge that this is not your watch; you are just looking after it for the next generation. Thinking like that means heirlooms, not products.
This combination of historic prestige, technical innovation, and philosophical approach to craftsmanship explains why its timepieces break auctions regularly.
A fragment of human aspiration frozen in metal and glass.
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