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Patek Philippe, the Glossary

Patek Philippe SA is a Swiss luxury watch and clock manufacturer, located in the Canton of Geneva and the Vallée de Joux.^[1]

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Manufacturing companies established in 1851
Swiss companies established in 1851

Abraham-Louis Breguet

Abraham-Louis Breguet (10 January 1747 – 17 September 1823), born in Neuchâtel, then a Prussian principality, was a horologist who made many innovations in the course of a career in watchmaking industry, including the tourbillon.

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Adrien Philippe

Jean Adrien Philippe (April 16, 1815, La Bazoche-Gouet, Eure-et-Loir – January 5, 1894) was a French horologist and cofounder of watchmaker Patek Philippe & Co. of Geneva, Switzerland.

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Alarm clock

An alarm clock or alarm is a clock that is designed to alert an individual or group of people at a specified time.

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Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is widely held as one of the most influential scientists. Best known for developing the theory of relativity, Einstein also made important contributions to quantum mechanics. His mass–energy equivalence formula, which arises from relativity theory, has been called "the world's most famous equation".

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Annual calendar

An annual calendar is a representation of the year that expires with the year represented, or that must be altered annually to remain current.

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Antiquorum

Antiquorum is an auctioneer of modern and vintage timepieces.

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Antoni Patek

Antoni Norbert Patek (Antoine Norbert de Patek; 14 June 1812 – 1 March 1877) was a Polish pioneer in watchmaking and the creator of Swiss watchmaker company Patek Philippe & Co., as well as a Polish independence fighter and political activist.

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Asia

Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.

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Audemars Piguet

Audemars Piguet Holding SA is a Swiss manufacturer of luxury watches, headquartered in Le Brassus, Switzerland. Patek Philippe and Audemars Piguet are luxury brands, Swiss watch brands and watch manufacturing companies of Switzerland.

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Automatic watch

An automatic watch, also known as a self-winding watch or simply an automatic, is a mechanical watch where the natural motion of the wearer provides energy to wind the mainspring, making manual winding unnecessary if worn enough.

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Balance spring

A balance spring, or hairspring, is a spring attached to the balance wheel in mechanical timepieces.

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Balance wheel

A balance wheel, or balance, is the timekeeping device used in mechanical watches and small clocks, analogous to the pendulum in a pendulum clock.

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Bauhaus

The Staatliches Bauhaus, commonly known as the, was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts.

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Boule de Genève

A Boule de Genève (Geneva ball) is a type of pendant watch in the shape of a small ball or sphere originating from Geneva, (Switzerland).

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Brooch

A brooch (also) is a decorative jewellery item designed to be attached to garments, often to fasten them together.

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Canton of Geneva

The Canton of Geneva, officially the Republic and Canton of Geneva, is one of the 26 cantons of the Swiss Confederation.

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China Poly Group

China Poly Group Corporation is a state owned Chinese business group among 102 central state owned enterprises under the supervision of State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC).

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Christie's

Christie's is a British auction house founded in 1766 by James Christie.

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Chronograph

A chronograph is a specific type of watch that is used as a stopwatch combined with a display watch.

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Clock

A clock or chronometer is a device that measures and displays time.

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Complication (horology)

In horology, a complication is any feature of a timepiece beyond the display of hours, minutes and seconds.

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Czapek & Cie

Czapek & Cie. is a Swiss watch brand named after the Polish watchmaker François Czapek. Patek Philippe and Czapek & Cie are Swiss watch brands and watch manufacturing companies of Switzerland.

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Czech Republic

The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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Diamond

Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic.

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Distribution center

A distribution center for a set of products is a warehouse or other specialized building, often with refrigeration or air conditioning, which is stocked with products (goods) to be redistributed to retailers, to wholesalers, or directly to consumers.

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Double chronograph

The Double chronograph, also known as a split-seconds chronograph, is a watch that includes two distinct stopwatch mechanisms in order to measure two separate events concurrently and/or comparatively.

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Equation of time

The equation of time describes the discrepancy between two kinds of solar time.

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Escapement

An escapement is a mechanical linkage in mechanical watches and clocks that gives impulses to the timekeeping element and periodically releases the gear train to move forward, advancing the clock's hands.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Exposition des produits de l'industrie française

The Exposition des produits de l'industrie française (Exhibition of Products of French Industry) was a public event organized in Paris, France, from 1798 to 1849.

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Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry

The Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry (FH) is the Swiss watch industry's leading trade association, headquartered in Bienne, Switzerland. Patek Philippe and Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry are Swiss watch brands.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Gao Xingjian

Gao Xingjian (高行健 in Chinese; born January 4, 1940) is a Chinese émigré and later French naturalized novelist, playwright, critic, painter, photographer, film director, and translator who in 2000 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity." He is also a noted translator (particularly of Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco), screenwriter, stage director, and a celebrated painter.

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Garrard & Co

Garrard & Co. Patek Philippe and Garrard & Co are luxury brands.

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Gérald Genta

Gérald Charles Genta (1 May 1931 – 17 August 2011) was a Swiss watchmaker and artist.

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General relativity

General relativity, also known as the general theory of relativity and Einstein's theory of gravity, is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1915 and is the current description of gravitation in modern physics.

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Geneva

Geneva (Genève)Genf; Ginevra; Genevra.

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Geneva Observatory

The Geneva Observatory (Observatoire de Genève, Observatorium von Genf) is an astronomical observatory at Sauverny (CH) in the municipality of Versoix, Canton of Geneva, in Switzerland.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.

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Great Exhibition

The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, also known as the Great Exhibition or the Crystal Palace Exhibition (in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held), was an international exhibition that took place in Hyde Park, London, from 1 May to 15 October 1851.

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Gyromax

The Gyromax is the trade name for an adjustable mass (or adjustable inertia) balance wheel used in Patek Philippe wristwatches.

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Henry Graves (banker)

Henry Graves Jr. (1868–1953) was an American banker descended from John Graves of Concord, Massachusetts.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.

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Hong Kong dollar

The Hong Kong dollar (sign: HK$; code: HKD) is the official currency of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

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Hungary

Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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James Ward Packard

James Ward Packard (November 5, 1863 – March 20, 1928) was an American industrialist who, alongside his brother William, created the Packard Motor Car Company and Packard Electric Company.

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Joint-stock company

A joint-stock company (JSC) is a business entity in which shares of the company's stock can be bought and sold by shareholders.

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José Saramago

José de Sousa Saramago (16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese writer.

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KPMG

KPMG International Limited (or simply KPMG) is a multinational professional services network, and one of the Big Four accounting organizations, along with Ernst & Young (EY), Deloitte, and PwC.

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Leap year

A leap year (also known as an intercalary year or bissextile year) is a calendar year that contains an additional day (or, in the case of a lunisolar calendar, a month) compared to a common year.

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Lever escapement

The lever escapement, invented by the English clockmaker Thomas Mudge in 1754 (albeit first used in 1769), is a type of escapement that is used in almost all mechanical watches, as well as small mechanical non-pendulum clocks, alarm clocks, and kitchen timers.

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Liquidation

Liquidations is the process in accounting by which a company is brought to an end.

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List of most expensive watches sold at auction

This list of most expensive watches sold at auction documents the watches sold at auction worldwide for at least 1.5 million US dollars.

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List of Nobel laureates in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobelpriset i litteratur) is awarded annually by the Swedish Academy to authors for outstanding contributions in the field of literature.

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List of watch manufacturers

This list is a duplicate of:Category:Watchmakers, which will likely be more up-to-date and complete.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Lusso (magazine)

Lusso is a United Kingdom-based quarterly magazine dealing with all aspects of the luxury lifestyle market.

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Manufacture d'horlogerie

Manufacture d'horlogerie (meaning "watchmaking manufacturer") is a French language term of horology that has also been adopted in the English language as a loanword.

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Mechanical watch

A mechanical watch is a watch that uses a clockwork mechanism to measure the passage of time, as opposed to quartz watches which function using the vibration modes of a piezoelectric quartz tuning fork, or radio watches, which are quartz watches synchronized to an atomic clock via radio waves.

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Miniaturization

Miniaturization (Br.Eng.: miniaturisation) is the trend to manufacture ever-smaller mechanical, optical, and electronic products and devices.

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Movement (clockwork)

In horology, a movement, also known as a caliber or calibre (British English), is the mechanism of a watch or timepiece, as opposed to the case, which encloses and protects the movement, and the face, which displays the time.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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Oceania

Oceania is a geographical region including Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.

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Order of Calatrava

The Order of Calatrava (Orden de Calatrava, Ordem de Calatrava) was one of the four Spanish military orders and the first military order founded in Castile, but the second to receive papal approval.

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Patek Philippe Calibre 89

The Patek Philippe Calibre 89 is a commemorative pocket watch created in 1989, to celebrate the company's 150th anniversary.

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Patek Philippe Henry Graves Supercomplication

The Patek Philippe Henry Graves Supercomplication (no. 198.385) is one of the most complicated mechanical pocket watches ever created.

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Perpetual calendar

A perpetual calendar is a calendar valid for many years, usually designed to look up the day of the week for a given date in the past or future.

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Phillips (auctioneers)

Phillips, formerly known as Phillips the Auctioneers and briefly as Phillips de Pury, is a British auction house.

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Plan-les-Ouates

Plan-les-Ouates is a municipality of the canton of Geneva in Switzerland.

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Pocket watch

A pocket watch is a watch that is made to be carried in a pocket, as opposed to a wristwatch, which is strapped to the wrist.

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Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.

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Privately held company

A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets.

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Qatar

Qatar (قطر) officially the State of Qatar, is a country in West Asia. It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it shares its sole land border with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its territory surrounded by the Persian Gulf.

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Quartz clock

Quartz clocks and quartz watches are timepieces that use an electronic oscillator regulated by a quartz crystal to keep time.

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Quartz crisis

The quartz crisis (Swiss) or quartz revolution (American, Japan and other countries) was the advancement in the watchmaking industry caused by the advent of quartz watches in the 1970s and early 1980s, that largely replaced mechanical watches around the world.

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Queen Victoria

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901.

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Repeater (horology)

A repeater is a complication in a mechanical watch or clock that chimes the hours and often minutes at the press of a button.

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Rockford, Illinois

Rockford is a city in Winnebago County, Illinois, United States.

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S.A. (corporation)

The abbreviation S.A. or SA, for the French société anonyme designates a type of limited company in certain countries, most of which have a Romance language as their official language and operates a derivative of the 1804, Napoleonic, civil law.

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Saud bin Muhammed Al Thani

Saud bin Muhammad bin Ali bin Abdullah bin Jassim bin Muhammed Al Thani (28 February 1966 – 9 November 2014) was a Qatari prince who served as minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage.

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Seth G. Atwood

Seth Glanville Atwood (June 2, 1917 – February 21, 2010) was an American industrialist, community leader, and horological collector.

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Sidereal time

Sidereal time ("sidereal" pronounced) is a system of timekeeping used especially by astronomers.

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Silicon

Silicon is a chemical element; it has symbol Si and atomic number 14.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster LLC is an American publishing company owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

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Sotheby's

Sotheby's is a British-founded multinational corporation with headquarters in New York City.

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Swiss franc

The Swiss franc, or simply the franc (Swiss German; franc; franco; franc), is the currency and legal tender of Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

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Swiss made

Swiss made is a label or marking used to indicate that a product was made on the territory of Switzerland. Patek Philippe and Swiss made are Swiss watch brands.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.

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Time zone

A time zone is an area which observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial and social purposes.

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Tourbillon

In horology, a tourbillon ("whirlwind") is an addition to the mechanics of a watch escapement to increase accuracy.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patek_Philippe

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Manufacturing companies established in 1851

Swiss companies established in 1851

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