Watch brand

Patek Philippe

Founded in Geneva in 1839, Patek Philippe is an independent Swiss manufacture known for traditional Genevan watchmaking, rare handcrafts, complicated calendars and chronographs, Calatrava dress watches, Nautilus, and Aquanaut.

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Patek Philippe
CountrySwitzerland
Founded1839
Families28
References1,941

Explore Patek Philippe in The Dial Atlas

The Patek Philippe entry in The Dial Atlas currently connects 1,941 cataloged references across 28 families. The catalog records 1839 as its founding year and Switzerland as its associated country. The maker is organized here as a navigable set of family and exact-reference records. These counts describe the structured archive available on this site, not the brand's complete historical output.

Start with Calatrava (452 references), Nautilus (250 references), Gondolo (158 references), Golden Ellipse (127 references), and Annual Calendar (122 references). Each family page keeps related watches together while preserving the reference codes, production periods, variants, and imagery that distinguish one execution from another. This makes the brand page a practical index for moving from a maker-level overview to the evidence attached to an individual watch.

Use the family links below to compare catalog breadth, follow production generations, and open the interactive Atlas view. Where the source data is available, reference dossiers surface case and dial details, movements, complications, nicknames, and current or discontinued status. The archive is designed to make both celebrated models and less familiar executions discoverable through stable, ordinary links.

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