If you have about US$6 million going spare, you can put in a bid for a contender for the title of world's most complicated watch. On May 14 at Sotheby's in Geneva, one of only four existing Patek ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the high, technical, and artistic ends of the watch industry. Caliber 89 is Patek Philippe’s most complicated portable ...

In 1989, Patek Philippe marked its 150th anniversary with Calibre 89, the world's most complicated portable timepiece with 33 complications. Its grande and petite sonnerie along with a minute repeater ...

“It has pretty much all the complications that you can imagine for a mechanical watch,” says Jean-Michael Piguet, deputy curator of the International Watchmaking Museum in La Chaux-de-Fonds, a Swiss ...

The Caliber 89, one of the world’s most complicated watches, will be up for auction in May. The pocket watch was unveiled in 1989 to celebrate Patek Philippe’s 150-year anniversary. At the time, it ...

After the massive successes of the previous Patek Philippe’s Watch Art Grand Exhibitions in 2012 (Dubai), 2013 (Munich), 2015 (London) and in 2017 (New York), the fifth and largest exhibition of the ...

“When we were doing the show in London, a couple came in, a man in a wheelchair and she was pushing him,” recounts Dr Peter Friess, curator of the Patek Philippe Museum. “He said, ‘I have a watch here ...