Patek Philippe

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To answer your questions...

The PP is so costly as it is a handmade watch, with a lot work done by a watchmakers and other craftsman.

The Rolex is in comparison ( we compare now just the movement ) mundane to a PP.

Each PP movement is made individually, as a Rolex is an assembly of parts.

You can see this also in the production numbers: Rolex makes over a million watches a year, PP just 35.000.

This showes also how much effort has been put into a watch.

Your second question: sturdyness.

Both are mechanical watches and to be treated as that.

The PP might be a bit more touchy than the Rolex as the movement is nearly always thinner than a Rolex one, but still both are touchy !

Example of  a thick Rolex movement: the Rolex caliber 3135 is as thicker as the whole (!) Ellipse watch.

But Rolex, as a very established manufacturer, still independant, with an altruistic task, makes good watches.

It simply feeds a different need than a PP does.


And now the overall decisive factor: taste !

Choose what you like more, simply.

Regards

Moritz

P S : In German exists the word mondaen, but with the opposite meaning: in German it means, lavish, opulent, elegant.