The “ Turtles ” collection is a series of Patek Philippe watches produced from 1954 to 1956 (?), which all feature : A case made by François Markowski (Geneva master case-maker, key number 8). A dial made by Stern Frères . A 10-200 manual-winding caliber

Thanks...Some more of the 1950's layered rings genre... From the left...2550,2549,another variant of the 2549 too thanks Roni

for many reasons, square case, art deco style and yellow gold (which is really out of fashion unfortuntately, or maybe fortunately, so YG nowadays stands out). It is always good to have an own style and be outside the mainstream. Here is my yellow gold, a

But none of the regular/ traditional 4/ 5 Patek reference books have any mention....I have every Auction catalogue for over 20 years and it has never come spend hours on this!!And have never ever come across it oddly i have 2546,2549,2549, 2550,2552...wo

Thanks..glad you liked it. Here it is on the left,the Ref 2550 with the guilloche dial and next to it 2 of the 4 case variants of the reference 2549.All from the '50's ,the belle époque of Patek from a case design perspective. Roni

Recently I was fortunate to add some new vintage Pateks to my collection and get a few back from Geneva after having been serviced,as well as a couple of recent pieces. As some of you may know I collect vintage pateks from a design perspective so finding

and one not-so-vintage.... Roni

first, according to Chuck Maddox (Moonwatch expert): The c.321 is based on a design development project titled "27 CHRO C12" (27 mm diameter, chronograph, with extra 12-hour register) took place in the 1940's by Albert Piguet and Jaques Reymond as a joint