Mastery of the Watchmaking Art: Patek Philippe Grand Complications Collection

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October 7th, 2009 ·

When it comes to horological complications, there is hardly any watchmaking house that is as good at making them as Patek Philippe. The company is famous for creating one of the most complicated watches ever made, the Calibre 89. Made to mark the 150th anniversary of Patek Philippe, the watch had 900 parts, 24 hands and 33 horological complications, including a thermometer, leap year Indicator, time of sunrise and many others.

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Patek Philippe has a peculiar approach to watches with complications. The company does not distribute them between different collections, but has a watch series specially designated for such timepieces - the Patek Philippe Grand Complications Collection. All watches from this line are capable of more than simply displaying hours, minutes and seconds. The Patek Philippe Grand Complications Collection includes timepieces with such complex mechanical performance options as a minute repeater, retrograde date, split-seconds chronograph, moon phase display, power-reserve indicator, tourbillon, universal time indicator, annual and perpetual calendars and many others. These timepieces are the crowning achievement of the company.


Perhaps, the most complicated wristwatch making part of the Patek Philippe Grand Complications Collection is the Sky Moon Tourbillon. Featuring a minute repeater with tourbillon escapement and a perpetual calendar, the timepiece displays the day, month and leap years, as well as moon age and solar time. Practically all Patek Philippe Grand Complications watches include a perpetual calendar with retrograde date indicating the date, day, month, and leap year by hands.

Founded in 1868, the company follows the tradition in designing its watches. For instance, no watch from the Patek Philippe Grand Complications Collection has an aperture on the dial to make the tourbillon visible, which nearly all complicated watches made by other companies have. The company prefers not to show off its mechanisms, allowing the performance of the watches to speak for itself.