About Patek Philippe and Patek Philippe Luxury Authentic Watches Antoni Patek, Watchmaker started small factory in 1839, making pocket watches in Geneva together with his friend Franciszek Czapek, Polish immigrant. The partnership did not last long, only 5 years, after that in 1844 they separated and in 1845 Patek Philippe joined together with the watchmaker from France, Adrien Philippe, who invented the keyless winding mechanism in to Luxury Authentic Watches. Patek Philippe opened corporation and in 1851 Patek Philippe & Co was founded. 1868 - Patek Philippe making the first in industry wrist watches. Patek Philippe & Co pioneered the chronograph, split-seconds hand, perpetual calendar and minute repeater in luxury watches. Like many other Swiss manufacturers of Luxury Authentic Watches, the company produces mostly mechanical watches with automatic or manual wind option, but in the past it also has produced different variety of quartz watches as well as a digital wrist watch. Patek Philippe, as a standard, manufacturing its own watch components. Patek Philippe timepieces have been recorded the highest prices in auctions all over the world. About 40,000 luxury authentic watches the company produces annually. Stern family since 1932 are owners of Patek Philippe. The company presently runs by Thierry Stern. There are no other Luxury Authentic watch brand in the World can be compared in prestige to the mentioned Patek Philippe. Many World Famous brands like Cartier, Bedat & Co, A. Lange & Sohne, Jaeger LeCoultre and Vacheron Constantin trying aspire to the coveted reputation of Patek Philippe, but none come close to the worldwide desirability of owning a Patek watches. Many watches produced by Patek are highly considered by the reputable collectors to be recession of proof. You will find timepieces produced not too long ago, in 1950s and 1960s easily sell at auction for over a million dollars. Patek offers an extensive collection of watches including the Twenty4, Aquanaut, Gondolo, Golden Ellipse, Calatrava, Nautilus and of course their most complicated watches, including Grand Complications that feature celestial charts, perpetual calendars and minute repeaters. All together, Patek Philippe is one of the most reputable names in all of luxury authentic watch making industry.