EDITOR'S REVIEW
Everything you wanted to know about Patek Philippe is here in Nicholas Foulkes’ official biography of Switzerland’s most revered watch brand. Drawing on interviews with the company’s current owners –the Stern family – Patek Philippe staff, watchmakers and even the widow of watch designer Gérald Genta who designed Patek’s legendary Nautilus watch, Foulkes also had the rare privilege of accessing unseen documents from the company’s archives to weave his colossal 544-page biography. The book is divided into 25 chapters and richly illustrated with over 600 images that trace the evolution of this Genevan watch brand. Read up on founder Antoine Norbert de Patek’s early life in Poland as a young cavalry officer fighting in a doomed uprising, his exile, his life in Geneva and his partnership with watchmaker Adrien Philippe all the way through to the 1932 purchase by the Stern family who have perpetrated the legend.
