In his comment to my thread dedicated to the Patek Philippe/Somazzi partnership , our dear Gordon aka GLau asked me how many retailers were able to have their signature on some Patek Philippe watches . Here's my answer : A / I have identified 58 retailers
I love the watch and especially the big crown. Watch is easy to wind. I have a 1974 ref. 3420 at the same size, but the crown is so much smaller - crazy that 20 years should make things worse. Well, I have a question. Looking at the crown on my 1955 watch
Imagine the opening scene of a movie set . The location is the Hadron Collider in Switzerland. The actor is Benedict Cumberbatch playing the role of a scientist. He is wearing a crisp white lab coat. He walks into the lab and raises his arm and pulls back
Imagine the opening scene of a movie set . The location is the Hadron Collider in Switzerland. The actor is Benedict Cumberbatch playing the role of a scientist. He is wearing a crisp white lab coat. He walks into the lab and raises his arm and pulls back
the 3434, the 2570, and the 3417 SS version of the 2570. The 27-400AM movement which powered all of the above may be the most beautiful HW wristwatch movement ever from Patek, and it was 'special' in this application in that it had a gold lever, to preven
there are several versions of this watch: movements: movement originally was converted from 12-400 to 12-400AM in 1958. afterwards, to 27-400AM and production probably ended 1973. references: ref. 2570 in yg/pg, 3416 in yg, 3434 in yg, 3420 in yg, ref. 96
I got a YG 3420 from a net dealer which advertise it with "fancy lug" I took the watch to Patek service centre in H.K. and they informed me that the crystal was not original and of different height, the thickness of the watch is 8mm and worse still they i