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Home | Newsletter | Contact | Site Map. Home / Brands / Partner Brands / Patek Philippe Museum / parts of the museum / history File complet/20ème century, the military offered the first wristwatches. The wristwatches have much time to break into the watch market, the pocket watch has long been considered a male symbol. Then, paradoxically, in the military appearance of the first bands incorporating a timepiece, the soldiers and officers are the first to recognize the advantage of wearing his watch on the wrist. Cyclists, horse riders and pioneers of the automobile revolution that will follow shortly, a pocket watch that could actually be the most cumbersome in practice certain activities or trades of the early century. Practical considerations have changed attitudes. However, these first wrist watches were nothing more than mere pocket watches, which have had welded two ties for hanging a bracelet. They were, moreover, exposed to all sorts of dangers, including pocket watch, highly safe in the pocket of its owner, had not even thought. So dust, water, temperature variations and shock they threatened the existence of the newcomer. The extensive research undertaken to improve it, both technically and aesthetically, as well as changes in lifestyle and style of dress, which characterize the thirties, the wristwatch will lead to a growing success, the pocket watch became gradually symbol of an outmoded era. In its heyday in the years 1940-1960, the wristwatch has ceased to improve since, becoming one of the most used objects in our modern society. Lady's wristwatch with repetition five minutes - 1916 (Inv. P-594). Wristwatch Men's rectangular with minute repeater - 1926 (Inv. P-739). Man's wristwatch with perpetual calendar, phases and age of the moon - 1925 (Inv. P-72). This watch is the first wristwatch with perpetual calendar. Men's wristwatch rectangular reversible - 1932 (Inv. P-565). Men's wristwatch cushion-shaped with minute repeater - 1928 (Inv. P-1035). Issued March 16, 1932 at Bailey, Banks & Biddle Co., Philadelphia - Pennsylvania (USA). This watch was presented to the General de Gaulle. Wristwatch Bomber flyback chronograph push to rectangles, 30-minutes to 3 hours and tachymeter scale - 1952 (Inv. P-1160). Men's Wristwatch designed by Gilbert Albert asymmetric - 1969 (Inv. P-969). Men's Wristwatch with tight round button chronograph, 30-minutes. Issued June 5, 1952 at The henri stern Watch Agency, New York (USA). Man's wristwatch, round button chronograph, 30-minutes to 3 hours and tachometer scale with perpetual calendar and moon phases - 1957 (Inv. P-279). Issued November 20, 1957 at The Watch henri stern Agency, New York (USA). Discover some of the key elements outlined today. This thematic exhibition presents some forty pairs of Chinese watches. Until .. The museum was inaugurated in Geneva on Saturday a masterly exhibition giving to see parts ..
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