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258 references across 13 model lines.
Antoine Norbert de Patek and Adrien Philippe founded the firm in Geneva in 1839; Philippe's contribution was the keyless winding crown, which made winding keys obsolete. It has been owned by the Stern family since 1932 and remains independent, which is the fact the company itself treats as most important about it. Patek keeps records of every watch it has made since 1839 and will issue an Extract from the Archives confirming a specific movement and case number and its original sale date.
A Patek reference is the model; a suffix after the slash and dash describes case metal and dial (5711/1A-010: 1A is steel with bracelet, -010 is the blue dial). Every watch also carries separate movement and case numbers, and it is those — not the reference — that the Extract from the Archives is issued against.
The reference is the model; a suffix after the slash and dash describes case metal and dial. In 5711/1A-010, 1A is steel with bracelet and -010 is the blue dial.
Patek Philippe keeps records of every watch it has made since 1839 and will issue an Extract from the Archives confirming a specific movement and case number and its original sale date. The Extract is issued against the watch's movement and case numbers, not its reference.
Yes. Patek Philippe is catalogued in the Watch Safe reference library, and any Patek Philippe serial number can be looked up in the public registry to check for an existing record or theft flag. Authentication is performed by independent expert authenticators; Watch Safe records the result and publishes the registry entry.
Checking a specific Patek Philippe? Look up its serial number in the registry.