Haute Time Publisher Seth Semilof had the exclusive opportunity to sit down with Thierry Stern, the president of Patek Philippe at the company's first U. S. Boutique on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. Mr. Stern speaks openly about the challenges Patek Philippe faces to stay at the top of the luxury game, and how it continues to match its reputation and legacy through hard work, and passion.

Yesterday was a lot of fun, as Haute Time Publisher Seth Semilof got to do a video interview (that will appear next Tuesday on Hautetime) with top man in the watch industry, Patek Philippe’s Thierry Stern.  We are huge fans of his business model, watches, and success in the watch industry. Anytime we can speak […]

Sotheby’s continues its annual Important Watches auction tour of Asia, with the highlight of the tour coming October 8 in Hong Kong. There, leading the slate of timepieces for sale will be a rare Patek Philippe Sky Moon Tourbillon Ref. 5002P. In 2008, Sotheby’s enjoyed a smashing success with the sale of a similar piece […]

Patek Philippe burst onto the stage of haute horology in 1851, immediately making a name for itself by presenting Queen Victoria with a key-wound, pendant-style montre at the famous Crystal Palace. Today, the Geneva-based watchmaker continues to outfit the world’s elite with some of the globe’s most expensive and technically complicated  watches. Earlier this year […]

Today’s Haute Time Watch of the Day is by Patek Philippe and features a minute repeater, tourbillon escapement and instantaneous perpetual calendar. The rose gold piece is 41mm and is shown on a black alligator strap. This impressive piece chimes with two gongs and features day, date, month, leap year in apertures as well as […]

Millions of tourists visit Switzerland every year for its famous Alpine ski resorts and five-star spas on pristine lakes, but watch lovers know another Switzerland that combines the thrill of horological discovery with breathtaking scenery. Instead of the resorts and casinos of Lugano or the glamour and excitement of St. Moritz and Gstaad, they are […]

It’s a staple of action films –the character who doesn’t get involved in the action, who won’t get drawn in, but who, at some point, has to show what he (or she) is made of, and proceeds to demonstrate that under the surface, there’s much, much more than meets the eye. It’s the kind of […]

Bypassing a two-year waiting list, actor Brad Pitt managed to procure a Patek Philippe Minute Repeater in a hurry so he could present it to fiancée Angelina Jolie in time for their wedding. Soon the “world’s most beautiful woman” will be able to listen to the time in addition to reading it, all with the […]

Go to any purveyor of luxury timepieces, scan the displays and you’ll see them –tourbillon wristwatches, which can often be spotted by the presence of an opening in the dial that shows a complicated rotating mechanism. If you’re passionate about the romance of mechanics, it’ll be love at first sight, though you may find the […]

Go to any purveyor of luxury timepieces, scan the displays and you’ll see them –tourbillon wristwatches, which can often be spotted by the presence of an opening in the dial that shows a complicated rotating mechanism. If you’re passionate about the romance of mechanics, it’ll be love at first sight, though you may find the […]

The highly anticipated Sotheby’s auction of watches from famous collectors Reginald H. Fullerton Jr. and his grandfather Henry Graves Jr. proved to be a hit yesterday when its grand total sales went beyond the estimated three to five million dollars. It reached an exact value of $8,339,813, selling all 61 lots. Graves’ Patek Philippe 18k yellow […]

A rare Patek Philippe timepiece is headlining today’s auction at Christie’s New York. The incredible piece is from the post-war Sleeping Beauty series. The Ref. 2523 was introduced in 1953 to a less than enthusiastic audience, many who considered its intricate face too hard to read and its price point excessive. Now a collector’s dream, […]

With a score of 8.3 out of 10, Breguet was rated first of 27 luxury watch brands for the upper-class US shoppers, said the 2012 Luxury Brand Status Index (LBSI) survey conducted by the Luxury Institute. The New York-based institute said Breguet achieved the top rank for its product design, customer service and brand reputation—the […]