Patek PhilippePatek Philippe &Co.(PP) is a Swiss watch manufacturer located in geneva and the Valee de Joux. PP is currently owned by the Stern family and is led by Philippe Stern and his son. PP is notable as being a manufacture, in other words for manufacturing its own watch components. As there are relatively few manufacturers, being a manufacturer confers a special status on PP within Swiss watchmaking. In 1868, Patek Philippe made their first wristwatch. They have also the perpetual calendar, split-seconds hand, chronograph, and minute repeater in watches. The company, like other Swiss manufactures, produces mostly mechanical movements of the automatic and manual wind variety, but has produced quarts watches in the past and even a digital wrist watch, the Ref. 3414. In 1989, Patek created one of the most complicated mechanical watches ever made, the caliber 89, created the 150th anniversary of the company. It holds 33 complications, including the date of Easter, a thermometer, time of sunrise, equation of time, sidereal time, and many other indicators. 1,728 unique parts allow sidereal time a 2,800 star chart, and more. The caliber 89 is also able to add a day to February for leap years while leaving out the extra day for every 100 year interval.
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