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When you buy a Patek Philippe Grandes Complications, you are getting a luxury watch, full of artistry and timeless value.
Patek Philippe complications
As one of the most famous watch manufacturers, Patek Philippe offers a large number of luxurious watches with great complications and multiple functions. The traditional Swiss company is famous for two complications, the annual calendar and the world time display. The Patek Philippe Grandes Complications collection also includes chronographs, chronographs with an annual calendar, chronographs with world time, perpetual calendar, split-seconds chronographs, minute repeaters or minute repeaters with world time. The combination of several complications represents a very special challenge. With the Patek Philippe Grandes Complications, a difficulty does not simply add up, it increases. Some of the mechanisms in question have to be fitted side by side into the movement and for this reason they have to be designed to save space. Assembling and adding a complication also becomes more difficult with every additional detail.
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Experiences of generations
The top trio of watchmaking complications are undoubtedly the tourbillon, the minute repeater and the split-seconds chronograph. This also applies to the Patek Philippe Grandes Complications. Their production places the highest demands on watchmakers. A highly complex mechanism is required to control two chronograph hands. One of the hands must be stopped so that an intermediate time can be read or a reference time can be saved. The other hand continues to run without going wrong by a fraction of a second. If the split-second hand is released, it quickly catches up with the other hand of the chronograph. The two hands, lying one on top of the other, then rotate together.
Innovative complications
With the watches from the Patek Philippe Grandes Complications series, the Swiss company presents itself as a manufacturer of absolute luxury. This applies to both the processing of the watches and the additional functions mentioned here. The Patek Philippe Grandes Complications timepieces are constantly coming up with innovative complications. The Geneva manufacturer invented the annual calendar in 1996. The time zone function has been improved for the 2017 Aquanaut Travel Time. The new system for setting the local time with two pushers replaces springs and levers with a complex steel part. This reduces friction and susceptibility to errors.
