The Swiss watch maison celebrates 180 years of horological accomplishments with a major showcase from Sept 28 – Oct 13, 2019 at Marina Bay Sands Theatre.
The Watch Art Grand Exhibition is the fifth Patek Philippe exhibition of this scale, and the first to be hosted in Southeast Asia after Dubai, Munich, London and New York. The exhibition will take up 1,800sqm of space and be divided into 10 theme rooms.
For aficionados, the exhibition promises, apart from the full current collection, a wide range of significant historical pieces from its famed museum in Geneva that includes a royal pocket watch presented to Queen Victoria in 1851, the first Swiss wristwatch from 1868 and its most complicated watch to date, Calibre 89.
In the Watchmakers and Rare Handcrafts Rooms, watchmakers and artisans will be present respectively to demonstrate the intricate process of melding watchmaking with artistic expressions.
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