What your watch says about you: Patek Philippe
We all know the advert: You never actually own a Patek Philippe; you merely look after it for the next generation. And that’s probably pretty true about this timeless watch brand. If you see someone who wears a Patek you can confidently assume that this person knows what’s happening in the world at any given time as they’ve been up since 6 studying the Telegraph newspaper and they knew what an ISA was before they were 16. And due to this they will be driving the latest Mercedes or Jaguar and on the weekend it’s the classic Aston Martin.
This ultra luxury watch brand was founded in 1851 and is classed as one of the most prestigious watch brands in the world and no wonder when you count Queen Victoria and Pope Pius IX among past owners.
Patek Philippe pioneered the perpetual calendar, split-seconds hand, chronograph and the minute repeater. The most iconic watch in the Patek collection is the Nautilus. The Nautilus burst onto the scene as Patek’s first steel sports watch. It seals the case from water with its two ‘ears’ on either side, which gives the Nautilus its distinctive shape. Just as this watch is a timeless classic the wearer of the Nautilus will know the timeless classics in their wine collection and thus the perfect harmony will be there.
They will have no mediocre income when wearing a Patek, and this high level of income has come from the high-level lf discipline they have employed throughout their life. They will be a perfectionist at heart and have a routine like no other. And that’s why this person will work with money. He or she will be a banker or an executive in the financial sector were the power dress is encouraged.
For the financial individual Patek has made the perfect timepiece and that is the Calatrava. It was brought into production in 1932 and it has no-nonsense functionality combined with a sense of elegance, just like the owners no-nonsense approach to business, which has successfully got them to where they are now.
So if your sixteen and an avid reader of the Telegraph’s financial section as well as asking for a subscription to the Investors Chronicle for your seventeenth birthday then your on the right track to owning a Patek Philippe. And if you’re reading this looking out over Canary Wharf from your London facing office on the 30th floor, then a Patek Philippe is the perfect timepiece for your wrist to illustrate your high standards in life. Now how many points has the FTSE and the Dow Jones risen today?
Written by Benjamin Dyson