The exhibition has the extensive rare handcrafts collection to date. It can be visited until June 26.
Wish we were in Geneva, at least until June 26th… No doubt that all watch enthusiasts think so, because nowadays Patek Philippe’s the most extensive rare handcrafts collection is on display in the Rue de Rhône 41, the historic headquarters of the brand.
The exhibition can be visited online, however, it was also stated that more watches could be seen in Geneva between June 16-26. The collection has more than 75 watches, including wrist watches, pocket watches, table clocks, domed watches and six of them are brand new editions that were created this year. This exhibition is the extensive exhibition in Geneva because of the pandemic: Indeed, the brand, which planned to open an extensive exhibition last year with 70 new watches, some of which were unique and some of which were limited, hid the exhibition carefully because it could not realize the exhibition due to the pandemic, and when it decided to exhibit it with 6 new watches this year, a very extensive collection have occurred.
Rare handcrafts collections have been always important for the Patek Philippe since its establishment in 1839. The timepieces considered as artworks back then -more than 200 graving artists were living only in Geneva by the end of 1700s- and Patek Philippe was producing unique watches for queens and kings. The brand founded the Fabrique, which brings together all the traditional arts of watchmaking at its headquarters in Geneva and brought together the most talented artists. Even when interest in such watches waned during the Quartz Crisis and the rare watchmaking arts were on the verge of extinction, the brand continued to produce watches in which these arts were practiced. (Let us note that the number of brands actualize this extremely difficult art can be counted on the fingers of one hand.) Now it is a tradition for Patek Phillipe to introduce this one-of-a-kind and limited-edition art-watches every year as well as the modern watches introduced at fairs.
Some of these unique watchmaking arts at the Plan-les-Quates center, where Patek Philippe moved in spring 2020, are as follows:
