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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.
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