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Vladimir Putin Wears Patek Philippe Perpetual Calendar.

  • Posted on January 19, 2010 at 11:45 am

In spite of global crisis Russian political and business elite prefers gold and platinum watches by the best Swiss watch brands, according to Russian newspaper Vedomosti that has carried out its own investigation.

Vladimir Putin wears white gold Patek Philippe Perpetual Calendar that costs $60 000. Thus Russian Prime Minister shows his good taste – his choice is really perfect. Patek Philippe Perpetual Calendar watch has beautiful classic design. The case of the watch measures 38 mm in diameter. The timepiece is powered by the brand’s caliber 315 S QR movement where the letter S stands for sweep seconds, Q for perpetual calendar and R for the retrograde date.

The movement is self winding. It offers 44 hour power reserve. One of the greatest features of the movement of this watch is that it automatically recognizes the duration of each month. What is more, it keeps track of leap years.

The dial of Patek Philippe Perpetual Calendar displays the day and month in apertures at the 9 and 3 o’clock positions. The date is displayed by a red tipped hand that moves clockwise from the 8 o’clock to the 4 o’clock position. The watch also features the moon-phase mechanism that remains accurate for 122 years and 45 days. The watch comes with alligator leather strap.

It turns out that not only Vladimir Putin likes Patek Philippe watches. The president of the Bank For Foreign Trade Andrey Kostin wears Patek Philippe Sky Moon that costs $240 800. Igor Livitin, the Transport Minister wears Patek Philippe Perpetual Calendar ref.5159 whose price is $74 800. The head of President Administration Sergey Naryschin wears more modest Patek Philippe that costs $29 700.

The other popular brands are Breguet and Ulysse Nardin. Russian President Dmitrii Medvedev wears Breguet Classique Moon Phase. Russian Patriarch Kirill also owns a Breguet watch.

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Patek Philippe Calatrava – A Brilliant Skeleton Watch

  • Posted on November 17, 2009 at 11:08 am

Patek Philippe Calatrava SkeletonPeople who like skeleton watches with engraved movements for sure will adore the newly introduced Patek Philippe Calatrava watch. This watch is really marvelous. If you ask an admirer of Patek Philippe what the best watch of this brand is, you will listen to a long list of models and no doubt this list will contain the new Patek Philippe Calatrava skeletonized watch.

The watch features the outstanding Patek Philippe watches 240 Caliber movement that has already become an exemplar in its regular form. This movement is perfection itself, since it has been open worked to an extraordinary degree. It does leave only the bare minimum of structures that are required to support gears and wheels of the mechanism.

The watch is perfect from both technical and aesthetic points of view. This timepiece features miniature and intricate engravings on every surface that have been performed with great skill.
Watch connoisseurs will agree that the most beautiful parts of the new Patek Philippe Calatrava Ref. 5180/1 are these: the pierced mainspring barrel decorated with the famous Calatrava Cross symbol as well as the fine support for the 22 k microrotor whose delicacy can be compared with the one of a spiderweb.
The 18K white gold case of Patek Philippe Calatrava skeleton watch greatly emphasizes the transparency of the mechanism. The case that features pierced design and blue colored sapphire crystal ring compliments the craftsmanship of the great Patek 240 SQU movement.

Those who prefer watches of other design rather than skeletons will be glad to know that this year Patek Philippe presents a new watch collection that comprises watches whose dials are decorated with the very complicated colored enamel technique called cloisonne. Together with other Swiss watch brands Patek Philippe mastered cloisonne. Only the most experienced craftsman can decorate dials with unique pictures.

Patek Philippe Perpetual CalendarFirst the designer draws a volumetric picture that then is filled with enamel whose composition is kept under a strict secret. The dial of the watch is then put in a special oven for quite a long time where being influenced by high temperatures the enamel acquires the needed color. As the result the dials of the mechanical masterpieces by Patek Philippe watches get decorated with traditional for such models pictures – exotic animals, birds and others.

Patek Philippe watches are popular in all over the world with both ordinary people and celebrities, including presidents. Among clients of the company there are Queen Victoria, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates and ex-Russian president Vladimir Putin who wears on his wrist white gold Patek Philippe Perpetual Calendar that costs $ 60000. Watches by Patek Philippe are justly considered ones of the world’s most prestigious watches, because this brand focuses all its efforts on production of watches whose every single detail can be described as perfect.

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Patek Philippe NEW Celestial Timepiece with Astronomical Indications

  • Posted on November 16, 2009 at 11:48 am
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This year, for Only Watch 2009, Patek Philippe created an exclusive new Celestial model Ref 5106 with astronomical indications on the dial side (as the previous model Ref 5102) and the addition of the date indication.

The unique Only Watch 2009 Patek Philippe Ref 5106: Celestial model in rose gold with date indication and exclusive guilloché pattern. Patek Philippe’s Ref 5106 Celestial selfwinding wristwatch features a large-format sky chart that indicates the nocturnal sky for the northern hemisphere which rotates counterclockwise on its dial showing the angular progression of the stars relative to the meridian passage of Sirius. At the same time, the display shows the angular position of the moon, its phases and meridian passage. The new exclusive model offers the useful addition of the date indication and an exclusive guilloche pattern on the bezel.

“We decided to create this unique watch for Only Watch 09,” says Thierry Stern, Vice President, Patek Philippe, “because astronomical indication watches remain among the rarest type of complications and are also one of the most intriguing ones. The sky and stars are a source of dreams and hope, hope for the better as made possible by the organization of Only Watch.”

“What first impresses you when you look at the watch, (other than its beauty),” says Sandrine Stern, Head of Creation at Patek Philippe, “is the luminosity and depth of the astronomical dial. It features hour, minute leaf-shaped openwork rose gold hands and a polished rose gold calendar hand with a half-moon sandblasted shaped tip to indicate the date on the perimeter of the dial. In addition to the date indication, it features the four points of the compass – north, south, east and west, and ‘PATEK PHILIPPE GENEVE’.”

The watch itself is in rose gold, the bezel in 22k rose gold, and the middle part of the watchcase and the back of the case in 18k rose gold. You may ask, “Why 22k?” The choice of 22k rose gold is due to the intricate and exclusive decoration on the bezel since 22k is much softer than 18k and so allowing the delicate decoration using a special hand guilloché tool made just for this watch.

The complex astronomical displays rely on a system of stacked sapphire crystal discs which rotate at different speeds and create a mesmerizing impression of depth. The celestial background is a blue sapphire crystal disc on a wheel with 279 teeth. This disc reproduces the orbit of the moon. Via a planetary gear train, it also drives a subsidiary sapphire crystal disc depicting the waxing and waning of the moon in a small round aperture. Above it, on a wheel with 356 teeth, is a transparent sapphire crystal disc which bears the sky chart on one side and an image of the Milky Way galaxy on the other. These three discs are protected by the sapphire crystal glass with an ellipse on the inside that frames the portion of the sky visible above Geneva. For this invention, Patek Philippe was awarded Swiss Patent CH 688 171 B5.

The movement of the Celestial is a masterpiece of precision mechanical engineering, composed of 315 individual parts that are painstakingly finished by hand. The edges of all steel components are beveled and polished and each tooth of each and every gear wheel is manually polished with a rotating hardwood disc. This degree of perfectionism reduces friction at the wheel contact points and contributes significantly to the high level of precision and longevity for which Patek Philippe watches have earned a reputation.

The self-winding watch draws its power from a mini-rotor recessed off-center in the movement. Even slight movements of the wrist are sufficient to supply the necessary winding energy, because the rotor is crafted from heavy 22k gold. For this reason, the movement is only 6.26 millimeters high, despite its complexity. The case, too, is remarkably slim.

Both the sapphire over the dial and the sapphire of the exhibition back of the case are anti-reflect treated to allow you to clearly see the astronomic indications and the oscillating mass that is engraved on the outer edge: “to Paul” – a very discreet engraving. This is the very first time that Patek Philippe has added a date to the Celestial wristwatch.

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