Piaget Swiss Movement Replica Watches

Best Replica Piaget Swiss Watches

The Patek factories, with 200 skilled professional workers, and the museum, is still located in Geneva; with the enhanced complexity of the watches and the evolved high prices, production is understandably lower. During Patek's 160 years in the business, they have manufactured 600,000 watches, with the average timepiece requiring at least nine months to complete, with the more complicated watches taking even longer. The entire process takes place at the Patek factory by thoroughly trained master technicians with unequalled abilities, who labor in the company's specialized workshops.
There are currently eight official lines produced by Patek Philippe. Each style reflects philosophy of design, knowledge of the past, and the traditional Patek virtue of always looking to the future. There are some vintage as well as recent adjunct model lines such as the Square, the Tank, the Pagoda, and the Top Hat, precursors to the Gondolo collection.
The Calatrava is still Patek's signature model. From its debut with the iconic ref. 96 during the beleaguered Great Depression days of 1932, the Calatrava watches invoke Patek Philippe's precision, novel artistry and style. The Calatravas have elegantly thin cases with broad polished bezels or hobnail high relief surrounding the dials. Noting the immediate popularity of these watches, nearly all the Swiss watchmakers have tried to copy them, trying to capture the sleek lines and elegance; however, Calatrava is unique to Patek Philippe. With the immediate popularity and acclaim for this new, elegant offering, the Stern brothers adopted the Calatrava cross as their now familiar company logo from the legend of a Spanish religious order that defended the Calatrava Citadel against the invasion of the Moors in the Middle Ages, fitting nicely with the traditional Patek brand symbol of the Spanish knight. The Calatrava quickly became known as the epitome of the round wristwatch, as well as the most recognizable example of the Patek Philippe style. Supremely elegant, it affects every new generation of watch aficionados with its timeless simplicity and perfection. As of 2021 there are 15 Calatrava models for men and women, available in white, rose gold, and platinum.
Complications are the extraordinary horologic special functions aside from simple time-telling that have always made Patek Philippe so formidable. From Jean Philippe's first pocket watch with a minute repeater in 1845, to his 1881 patent for a precision regulator, and his novel perpetual calendar mechanism in 1889, Patek Philippe innovations have defined the company as being on the prow of the ship. After Jean Philippe's death in 1894, the brand (In 1901 named "Ancienne Manufacture d'Horlogerie Patek Philippe & Cie, S.A."), continued to embrace the high complication technology, including a split seconds chronograph in 1902, their watch with a minute repeater playing the Westminster chimes on a grande and petite sonnerie in 1909, the first ever perpetual calendar wristwatch with the caliber 97925, and of course the watches custom made for connoisseur Thomas Emery as well as the 1927 astronomical pocket watch created for automobile magnate James Ward Packard (At that time the most complicated watch in the world). Patek introduced moon phase displays, the first bracelet chronographs with split-second mechanisms, and a host of other radical horologic creations.
These innovative complication and grand complication watches still set the bar for the modern era. The 1980's and '90's saw a number of impressive Perpetual Calendar Chronographs including the elegantly simply ref. 3450 in 1981, the 1987 ref. 3970 with its subsidiary dials for the constant seconds, 24-hours, moon phase, and a 30-minute chronograph totalizer. The ref. 5970 40mm Perpetual Calendar Chronograph was introduced in 2009, and Hollywood mogul Michael Ovitz a passionate Patek devotee helped design his extraordinary namesake Perpetual Calendar Split Second Chronograph 5004/1J-001 in 2011. The company continues to introduce notable Grand Complications timepieces such as the 2017 ref. 5316 with a minute repeater, a tourbillon, a perpetual calendar, a moon phase, and a retrograde date. In 2020 they released three new Grand Complications including the exquisite ref. 5303 minute repeater/tourbillon with the striking mechanism on the dial side, the ref. 5370 Split seconds chronograph, and the ref. 5270 chronograph-perpetual calendar. As of 2021 there are 35 Grand Complication models and 35 Complication watches.