The Ref. 7130 World Time ladies’ watch comes with a blue-grey hand-guilloched dial centre surrounded by diamonds and a white-gold case. The mechanical timepiece indicates the time in 24 zones worldwide via an adjustable disc. The blue-grey alligator strap provides an elegant finish to the watch.
Patek Philippe has launched a new selfwinding perpetual calendar timepiece with a vintage look. The case has a lacquered cream dial graced with luminous numerals and hands as well as three-tier lugs. The watch was inspired by exhibits in the Patek Philippe Museum from the 1940s and 1950s. Its heart is a newly developed caliber 324 with double apertures for the day/month and an analogue date.
The Ref. 5960/1 self-winding flyback chronograph with annual calendar in stainless steel unites two extremely popular Patek Philippe complications and features a new ebony-black opaline dial. The personality and uniqueness of this timepiece is highlighted by its face, which has three apertures arranged along an arc for the day, date and month as well as a chronograph monocounter at six o’clock.
TALE AS OLD AS TIME
Patek Philippe: The Authorized Biography by Nicholas Foulkes was launched last year, but made its debut this month in Singapore. The book has more than 600 images, 544 pages, 25 chapters and a 40-page watch reference appendix, and measures 289mm by 305mm. It is a book for both watch collectors as well as history buffs, as it tells the story of one of the oldest watch brands. Foulkes, a renowned historian, author and editor, has combined in-depth research with lengthy interviews with owners, staff and watchmakers past and present to narrate the evolution of the manufacture. The story of Patek Philippe begins with founder Antoine de Patek’s early life in Geneva, his meeting with watchmaker Jean Adrien Philippe right up to the purchase of the company by the Stern family in 1932.