more people with more money than sense. Stern laughing his way to the bank selling $100K uninspiring stainless steel watches. It’s a crazy world going crazier.
These are contemporaneous estimates of Patek Philippe's annual production over time. Only the first two estimates (1895 and 1915) come from me, all others were pulled from newspapers, magazines, interviews, etc... ...
more people with more money than sense. Stern laughing his way to the bank selling $100K uninspiring stainless steel watches. It’s a crazy world going crazier.
I remember, probably in the 1990s, when it was said that Rolex made more watches in one year than Patek made in its entire history. Those days are long gone but still Patek’s yearly production is a small fraction of Rolex’s. Best, Patekova
Clearly PP is big business. Would be curious to know how many of these are the complications or handcrafts models. I would hazard a guess that the ‘regular’ models are coming off what must by now be *highly* automated production lines. Nothing like what R...
Compare 30-255 to the 315, or 31-260 to the 240. Patek started avoiding interior angles about 50 years ago. Patek only went all-in on the Geneva seal around the 70-80s, historically it wasn't that big a deal. Pop the back off a ref. 96 or 1518 and there's...