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| Passion Investments: Watches: The Knack of Time |
Neither Love Nor Money
Jill Newman
08/01/2005
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Many of the early privately commissioned watches that shaped the future of
horology are on display at museums or are coveted family heirlooms. Some are in
the hands of passionate collectors such as Patek Philippe’s owner, Philippe
Stern, who will not part with them for any amount of money.
 | | THE ORIGINAL Pasha, made for the pasha of
Marrakech. |
The Patek
Philippe Museum in Geneva has two of the most famous of its Henry Graves Jr.
watches: a revolutionary three-gong minute repeater pocket watch with a
perpetual retrograde calendar, moon phase and power-reserve indicator; and a
pocket chronometer with one-minute tourbillon lever escapement.
James
Packard, who died in 1928, bequeathed his watch collection to the American
Watchmakers-Clockmakers Institute in Harrison, Ohio. The 31-piece collection
includes 13 Patek Philippe models, many of which were custom-made to Packard’s
demanding specifications.
The Original Pasha, made for the pasha of
Marrakech, is in Cartier’s company museum in Geneva.
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