Patek Philippe

Hi All,

I have a question about the 5098. It says that it is a chrometro, however I do not see the COSC certification in the specs. The only Patek watches that have it are: 3939, 5002, 5016, 5101, 5207. Please update me with the data.

Also, how important is it for a watch to get this certification?

Also, I saw from the past thread that Patek only certifies its tourbillons, why is this so?

Thanks

Hi,

5098 is not a chronometer, but a "Chronometro Gondolo", after the name of a south American historical PP retailer of the early XXth century.

All form dress models from PP generally bear this name.

Chronometro is the specialty of the store like a famous watch store in Switzerland is named "Chronometrie XXXXX"!       

The COSC certificate has little value IMO has only the calibre is tested, before being cased, and most basic Swiss calibres can stand easily thge COSC certification if they are correctly regulated! The production techniques today are much tighter than they were before. So passing the COSC standard in itself is not exceptionnal.

Then I can understand why a company would pass the COSC tests if the result at the test are particularly good. I personaly don't own a PP tourbillon so I've never seen a COSC certificate of a PP tourbillon, but I hope such certificate show an exceptional result.

If someone owns a PP tourbillon here please share!

PP gets a COSC certificate for all its tourbillon models and also for some limited editions.

Cheers

Dje

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Hi,

Here is the link to the history of this watch from a watch magazine website.

www.europastar.com

Sorry that I did not do enough research.

Thanks,