Results for Antoine Norbert de Patek

The Revolutionary List: 24 Technically Brilliant Watches – Patek Philippe Advanced Research

The Revolutionary List: 30 Pioneering Watches – the Patek Philippe Grandmaster Chime Ref. 5175

The Revolutionary List: 30 Pioneering Watches – the De Bethune DB28 Tourbillon Kind of Blue

First Look: De Bethune at Geneva Watch Days 2025

De Bethune Introduces Two Of Its Smallest Watches

A Closer Look: De Bethune DB25 Monopusher Chronograph

The New Cartier Santos de Cartier Small Model Packs a Big Punch 

A Closer Look: Patek Philippe Calatrava 6196P

Patek Philippe at Watches & Wonders 2025 | 5328G and 5308G

Patek Philippe at Watches and Wonders 2025: 5308G, 5370R, 6159G, 6196P, And More

De Bethune Novelties For 2025 With Denis Flageollet

Patek Philippe at Watches and Wonders 2025: Calatrava Pilot Travel Time and Ladies’ Nautilus

Three WOMEN’s Patek Philippes Perfect For Men

Five STEALTH Patek Philippe Watches

Introducing – The new Bell & Ross BR-05 Chrono Patrouille de France

French brand Bell & Ross has a long history of partnering with special forces, diving commandos, air forces and anything military-issued. These connections with the world of aviation and military forces have been at the centre of the brand’s development since its debut in 1992. More recently, in 2021, Bell & Ross announced a rather […]

The Piaget Andy Warhol Clou de Paris is a new chapter for an iconic design

First Look At The New Patek Philippe Cubitus

A Watchmaker’s Perspective: Patek Philippe Caliber 240

Is It Time For a Patek Philippe Men’s Model In Quartz?

WatchCharts September 2024 Watch Market Update: Patek Philippe Aquanaut Holding Value, TAG Heuer Less So

The WatchCharts Overall Market Index saw its largest monthly drop so far this year in August, losing 1.0% of its value. The last time we reported this index losing more than 1% of its value in a single calendar month was in November 2023. 

It’s Official: Mark Zuckerberg Joins the Patek Philippe Club

Back in Black: 3 Watches with Black Dials from Patek Philippe, Hublot, and Omega

Recent years have proven particularly colorful in the world of watches, but black is definitely back. Here Sabine Zwettler highlights three charismatic examples putting black in the spotlight. The dark side has never looked so bright!

Hands On: Patek Philippe “Extra Special” Chronometer of Henry Graves Jr.

A patrician banker who gained posthumous fame in the 21st century for his watch collection, Henry Graves Jr. (1868–1953) is most famous for having owned the Graves Supercomplication, once the most complicated watch in the world, and also the most expensive watch ever when it sold at auction ten years ago. His reputation means the watches he once owned – there were not all that many of them but all were high quality – carry cachet. One such example is coming up for sale at Phillips New York auction. It’s a Patek Philippe “Extra Special” pocket watch that is top-quality chronometer, classical in style and functional, and bearing the all-important Graves family crest on the hinged back. Now a horological symbol Not rivals but great collectors Graves’ modern-day fame as a watch collector was due in part to the ostensible rivalry between him and James Ward Packard (1863-1928), the engineer who founded the eponymous automobile company and an equally accomplished collector of great watches. Though both were active during the same decades, more or less, the famous competition between the two was a story made up in the 1990s to market the Supercomplication. Graves outlived Packard by 25 years, and the latter was quite ill when Graves was at his collecting peak. Graves bought the “Extra Special” pocket watch here in 1925, the year Ward fell ill with cancer before dying just three years later. An example of Packard’s impeccable taste: he commissioned this Patek Ph...

Top 10 Watches from Phillips Geneva Watch Auction: XIX totaling $40 million – Rolex, Patek Philippe and Akrivia/Rexhep Rexhepi Dominate

The Geneva Watch Auction: XIX held over the weekend by Phillips in Association with Bacs & Russo, totaled 39,667,167, just a tad over its high estimate, and set five world records.

Patek Philippe focuses on travel at Watches & Wonders 2024