PATEK PHILIPPE (BRIEF HISTORY)
1839
Patek, Czapek & Cie is founded by Antoine Norbert de
Patek and Francois Czapek.
1845
Patent for keyless winding and hand-setting system.
1851
The company name becomes Patek, Philippe & Cie – Fabricants a Geneve.
1868
Patek Philippe creates the first Swiss wristwatch made for Countess Koscowicz of Hungary.
1889
Patent for perpetual calendar mechanism for pocket watches.
1902
Patent for first double chronograph.
1916
Patek Philippe produces the first complicated ladies’ wristwatch with a
five-minute repeater, No. 174.
1956
The company makes the first all-electronic clock.
1977
Patent for ultra-thin automatic caliber 240.
1989
Launch of the Calibre 89 to mark 150 years of Patek Philippe. With 33
complications, it has the most ever in a portable timepiece.
1996
Patent for Annual Calendar mechanism.
2000
Launch of the Star Caliber 2000 to mark the millennium.
2006
Patek Philippe Advanced Research: launch of the silicon-based
Spiromax balance spring.
2009
Launch of the CH 29-535 PS movement integrated into the
Ladies First Chronograph.
2016
Launch of the World Time Chronograph.
2018
Launch of The Twenty-4 Automatic
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Table Clock
Calibre 89