Patek Philippe – The last privately owned, independent Genevan watch manufacturer. Since 1839, Patek Philippe has been continuously perpetuating the tradition of Genevan watchmaking. As an independent company, it enjoys total creative freedom to design, produce and complete what experts agree to be the finest timepieces in the world. Relying on its extraordinary experience, Patek Philippe cultivates a tradition of innovation crowned by an impressive portfolio of more than 80 patents. In creating its precious, classically elegant watches, designed to be handed down from one generation to the next, the company relies on latest-generation technology combined with ancestral watchmaking know-how.”

Patek Philippe is the last watch “manufacture” in Geneva. In the Swiss watchmaking industry, a manufacture is a company that conceives, develops and builds entire mechanical watches on its own resources. There are barely half a dozen true manufactures left in Switzerland today.

The new standard of quality for mechanical watches: the Patek Philippe Seal. A new era begins for Patek Philippe in the spring of 2009: All of the manufacture’s mechanical movements will henceforth be embossed with the exclusive Patek Philippe Seal. This is the evolution of a philosophy of quality and independence that the workshops in Geneva have been systematically pursuing since the company was founded in 1839. The new label clearly expresses the very essence and distinctiveness of Patek Philippe: a level of perfection that far transcends what external statutes and official standards prescribe.

After all, true passion can only come from within.

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