Patek Philippe

The Patek Philippe 4947 Annual Calendar Moonphase
The Patek Philippe 4947 Annual Calendar Moonphase

A very elevated take on a daily driver. Patek Philippe, it is probably safe to say, does not make any boring watches. It may make watch...

Standouts From Watches and Wonders 2023
Standouts From Watches and Wonders 2023

High notes from the biggest industry event of the year. One thing that makes watch collecting an absolute joy is diversity of opinion. ...

Patek Leads From The Front At Watches And Wonders 2023 With 17 New Models
Patek Leads From The Front At Watches And Wonders 2023 With 17 New Mod...

The Grande Dame of fine watchmaking shows that tradition is just a starting point. The interesting thing about Patek Philippe is that of ...

Collecting with a Cultured Perspective
Collecting with a Cultured Perspective

CP Time Celebrates Launch of New York Chapter One of the best parts about collecting watches is getting to nerd out with a community of f...

Tourbillon Chronicles Part II: Two Centuries Of Evolution
Tourbillon Chronicles Part II: Two Centuries Of Evolution

How the tourbillon earned its reputation as one of the pinnacles of watchmaking. During his lifetime, Breguet produced only a small numbe...

Collection Building Your Way with Griffin Bartsch
Collection Building Your Way with Griffin Bartsch

How would you spend half a million dollars? What about a million? This new column will offer our community of enthusiasts a forum to answ...

Report From BCG Says, “Luxury Pre-Owned Watches, Your Time Has Come”
Report From BCG Says, “Luxury Pre-Owned Watches, Your Time Has C...

Correction notwithstanding, pre-owned watches continue show impressive performance as investments. This won’t be news to anyone who...

The Tourbillon Chronicles: <br>Birth Of The Tourbillon
The Tourbillon Chronicles:
Birth Of The Tourbillon

How a watchmaking legend created one of watchmaking’s legendary complications. Welcome to The Tourbillon Chronicles, a four part se...

The Audemars Piguet Edward Piguet Perpetual Calendar
The Audemars Piguet Edward Piguet Perpetual Calendar

A forgotten masterpiece from Audemars Piguet. Audemars Piguet has been strongly associated with the Royal Oak and Royal Oak Offshore watc...

Variations On The Moonphase
Variations On The Moonphase

One of watchmaking’s oldest complications is still evolving. The moonphase complication is as old as watchmaking itself. In fact, i...

Movement Finishing in Modern High Grade Fine Watchmaking
Movement Finishing in Modern High Grade Fine Watchmaking

Of all the crafts associated with fine watchmaking, there’s none more fundamental, none which really defines what fine watchmaking ...

The Patek Philippe 5102 Sky Moon Celestial
The Patek Philippe 5102 Sky Moon Celestial

There are a lot of superlatives thrown around rather loosely in the world of luxury watchmaking, but every now and then a watch comes alo...

December Auction Report
December Auction Report

Auctions in December are always a little elegiac in feel — it’s the end of the year, the days have gotten shorter, and nighttime co...

Jack’s Picks: Classically Sized Watches
Jack’s Picks: Classically Sized Watches

The so-called dress watch has been under attack as a category of watchmaking at least since the early 1970s, when the first stainless ste...

Jack’s Picks: The Astonishing World of Horological Gem-Setting
Jack’s Picks: The Astonishing World of Horological Gem-Setting

There is among watch enthusiasts a tendency to dismiss gem-set watches as purely decorative objects whose primary function is to act as a...

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