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Dje
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I would even add....

Hi,

I talked with Patek Philippe public relations officials at Basel.

Among other subjects I asked about the future of Lemania based calibres for Patek Philippe.

The answer was that the relationship between the Patek Philippe and Swatch Group top management was quite excellent and there was no reason to think of any short term end on the supply of Lemania base plates to Patek Philippe.

I would add that all that was announced by the Swatch Group a few years back was the end of supply of kits to outside buyers. It would be still in the Swatch Group rights to sell main plates to Patek Philippe, specially as they have agreements running. The Swatch group problem IMO is more on the lack of value added for them when selling low priced calibre kits. They prefer to sell finished and assembled calibres, like all calibre makers.

On the contrary I would not be surprised to see Patek Philippe issue an in-house manual wind "simple" or "perpetual calendar" chronograph calibre in a few years, and stop using the Lemania base plate, but I don't see Patek Philippe without a manual wind chronograph calibre, in-house or not!

Please note that I have no information about a new in-house manual wind chronograph calibre coming from Patek Philippe!

Cheers

Dje