The Contemporary Collection
Rare Handcrafts
As heir to the grand Geneva Tradition, Patek Philippe is dedicated to preserving all the Rare Handcrafts that have been used to decorate timepieces for more than four centuries. The result is exceptional creations - pocket watches, wristwatches or table clocks.
Pocket Watches
For decades, pocket watches were the main stage on which Patek Philippe demonstrated its skills. Even though wristwatches have taken their place, they still delight connoisseurs of rare timepieces.
Pocket Watch
Dancer under the spotlight
This unique piece in yellow gold captures a bailaora, a flamenco dancer, performing under the spotlight, where her exaggeratedly long dress brings out the beauty of her movements.
This pocket watch is delivered with a stand in yellow gold, decorated with a fan in plique-à-jour enamel, hand-engraved and set with a red spinel cabochon.
Miniature painting in 5 further colors enabled the enameller to embellish the fan held by the dancer, showcasing all his mastery of his art.
This pocket watch is delivered with a stand in white gold beneath blue and black ceramic work, representing concentric ellipses and set with 362 diamonds.
This unique piece in white gold showcases several of the Rare Handcrafts techniques and draws inspiration from the historic pocket watches set with pearls and diamonds.
This pocket watch is delivered with a stand in yellow gold representing two plumed dandelion seeds, sparkling with 88 diamonds.
This unique piece in yellow gold conjures up all the delicacy of the dandelion flower’s tiny plumed seeds, just before a breath of wind blows them away.
This pocket watch is accompanied by a yellow-gold stand embellished with three palm trees and set on an oval base in sodalite.
This unique piece in yellow gold draws inspiration from the cotton cloth known as toile de Jouy, created in France in the eighteenth century.
This pocket watch is accompanied by a stand in yellow gold, embellished with an epaulette richly decorated with hand-engraving and adorned with 8 red spinels.
This unique piece in yellow gold enriched with a case back in wood marquetry captures the precise moment when the bull, depicted at the height of its powers, emerges from its pen to join the corrida.
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Pocket Watches
Dome Table Clocks
The ideal showcase for decorative techniques is the domed table clock, owing to its dimensions. Animal and flower motifs are classic Patek Philippe designs, alongside newer themes.
Dome Table Clocks
Charming talkers
This unique piece in Grand Feu cloisonné enamel reproduces the multicolored ballet of macaws frolicking in the depths of the Amazonian forest. This exotic enchantment is brought to life by the skilled use of contrasts and the shimmer of precious stones and colored enamels, combined to adorn this very first gem-set table clock produced by the Manufacture.
This table clock frames a dial center in cloisonné enamel depicting a macaw in mid-air.
The outlines of the birds, and the intricacies of their plumage and the strelitzia plants and flowers, also known as “birds of paradise,” called for about 20.75 m of gold wire.
The hour circle presents a circular-grained decoration coated with white lacquer, while the numerals and hour markers are transfer-printed in 5 different vivid colors.
This unique piece in Grand Feu cloisonné enamel pays tribute to the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi and marks, in 2026, the 100th anniversary of his death.
An oval hour circle in light-blue lacquer presents applied Roman numerals and leaf-shaped hands, all in gilt.
This unique piece in Grand Feu cloisonné enamel depicts the four seasons by means of the constellations visible in the sky at the different times of the year.
This table clock frames a dial center in cloisonné enamel reproducing a bird’s eye view of the topography of the Everest summit.
The outlines of the mountains, the alpinists and the compass rose called for about 12.47 m of gold wire.
An hour circle adorned with a rhodium-plated sunburst presents applied Arabic numerals, lacquered in 6 different colors, and leaf-shaped hands.
This limited edition pays homage to Mexico and its renowned Dia de los Muertos, a joyful, colorful Christian feast day celebrating the dead every year on November 2.
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Table Clocks
Wrist Watches
Rare Handcrafts' wrist watches offer stunning examples of a combination of techniques, embracing enameling, guilloché, engraving, gemsetting, and wood marquetry. They are also sometimes combined with the most poetic complication, namely the minute repeater.
Wrist Watch
The Queen of the Dead
This limited edition of ten watches in rose gold draws inspiration from La Catrina, a character issuing from popular Mexican culture, symbolizing elegance and refined taste. With her picture hat and fine dresses Catrina is the queen of Mexico’s Day of the Dead festival.
The dial was first hand-guilloched with a delicate pattern of intersecting arcs and flat diamond-shaped motifs, destined to remain visible beneath translucent enamel.
The enameller then traced the outlines of the Grand Feu cloisonné enamel skull, using about 53 cm of gold wire.
The dial was delicately hand-guilloched with 2 motifs oriented in 4 different directions, using a straight-line engine lathe.
This wrist watch presents a tartan fabric typical of Celtic populations, with its pattern of horizontal and vertical lines in multiple colors, crossing at right angles.
The marquetry maker succeeded in reproducing with extraordinary precision all the elements that define these instruments, such as the chords and the vibrato.
To achieve this level of realism he cut out and assembled 336 tiny veneer parts and 18 even smaller inlays, together representing 17 species of wood of different colors.
This watch expresses the chromatic beauty of an encounter between the blooms of the Himalayan blue poppy and the airy lightness and grace of a monarch butterfly.
The enameller displayed his outstanding mastery of the art of gradations and shading with a palette of transparent, opalescent, opaque and semi-opaque enamels.
This limited edition of twenty watches in yellow gold reproduces the sumptuous gold and black embroidery that illuminates the matador’s traje de luces or “suit of lights”.
The engraver began by chasing the top layer of the dial to produce a silky texture that would form the backdrop.
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Wrist Watches
