Patek Philippe...(28/8)

Visiting the museum has been one of my plans when I first arrived at Geneva this summer, but it was until the last weekend before my departure that I had a chance to visit the museum. Out of my expectation, the collection house showed off its abundant reserves of gorgeous ancient watches and clocks. It was a great pleasure for me to look at the stylish classic watches during the art nouveau and art deco era. From the glance of the collection, the skillful use painting technique has featured one of the successful reasons to explain the brand's best of its class during its centuries of history. A watch in the museum is like a historical approach to the modern development of watches and clocks. One of the most attractive vitrines is definitely its display of different pocket watches the brand manufactured for royal families and rich people in the 19th century. See how the company could commercialise its production with the different taste of kingdoms and clientele. The aesthetic focus of the exhibition unexpectedly under-weighs the technical side of its fine artisan mechanics applied to their products. Just to learn about the Czech heritage of the brand and to me, the product itself is a classy demonstration of art and technology overtime. See how waterproof was made a century ago, the evolution of multi-timing design, the retro-style of pilot watches in the 30's...imagination has never been compromised over time.