Star Caliber 2000G

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At Patek Philippe important moments in history have always inspired us to push forward the accepted boundaries of the watch making art: with the Star Caliber 2000 we have added a new luminary to the horological firmament. This enchanting pocket watch is the result of eight years of painstaking research and development. It joins the proud ranks of the world's most eminent portable timepieces, and presents a totally new combination of stunning complications for which six patents have been filed, elevating its status to unprecedented levels of complexity. A tribute to the prowess of our engineers and watchmakers, the Star Caliber 2000 is the only pocket watch ever to reproduce exactly the celebrated chimes of the Westminster clock tower in London. Its "running" equation of time, synchronized with the perpetual calendar, enables the reading of local mean time and true solar time. The indications of sunrise and sunset, the celestial chart and the moon-phases also accord their movements with the perpetual calendar, whose innovations include a rapid correction feature, which simultaneously adjusts all indications to the perpetual calendar date. A further distinction is the ingenious system for opening the two covers by means of the pendant at three o'clock. Over 1,000 parts give life to one of the most complex manually wound watch movements ever made, and animate its two faces, making this an object to treasure and a source of enduring fascination. This masterpiece, which is created in three types of gold - yellow, white and rose gold - as well as platinum, represents a new triumph for mechanical horology, and strengthens Patek Philippe's desire to reveal the incomparable poetry of the watchmaker's art.