Patek Philippe made a wristwatch for a Hungarian countess in 1868, and in 1999 it launched the Twenty~4, its first collection only for women. Then Patek went well past shrink and pink. It introduced its new in-house chronograph movement in a women’s watch, the Ladies First Chronograph of 2009, before it used the movement in a men’s watch, and in 2011 it gave women a minute repeater. Patek was one of the first to wind women’s automatic watches with a mini-rotor set into the movement, which keeps them thin. The minute repeater uses one in gold.
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Grand Complications · 38.8mm · Automatic · 5260/1455R-001Tap to see the back
About $3,560,000 new in 2026
Sapphires in the colors of the rainbow, 779 of them, cover the bracelet, bezel, and sides of the case, set so that no metal shows between the stones. Patek made this the first minute repeater in its Aquanaut Luce line and paved the dial with baguette diamonds.
Twenty~4 · 36mm · Automatic · 7340/1R-001Tap to see the back
About $133,000 new in 2026
This automatic watch looks big, but it's only 36mm, and it fits almost any woman's wrist. Patek fits a perpetual calendar with moon phases into the Twenty~4, using a movement under 4mm high to keep the rose gold case slim.
Grand Complications · 38mm · Automatic · 7147G-010Tap to see the back
About $138,000 new in 2026
Patek made 100 of these for its 2026 exhibition in Milan, with the perpetual calendar written in Italian on a green dial.
Complications · 33mm · Manual wind · 7121/200G-001Tap to see the back
About $51,000 new in 2026
Even smaller, at 33mm, this white gold moon phase has 132 diamonds in two rows around the bezel and a blue sunburst dial. Patek calls its movement the smallest complicated movement it makes.
Complications · 38mm · Automatic · 4946G-001Tap to see the back
About $61,000 new in 2026
This annual calendar needs correcting only once a year, at the end of February, and adds moon phases. Patek invented the complication in 1996.
Twenty~4 · 36mm · Automatic · 7300/1200R-001Tap to see the back
About $60,000 new in 2026
Patek’s self-winding Twenty~4 comes in rose gold with 160 diamonds around the bezel and a brown sunburst dial.
Nautilus · 35.2mm · Automatic · 7118/1200R-001Tap to see the back
About $77,000 new in 2026
This ladies’ Nautilus in rose gold has 56 diamonds on the bezel, and you can see the movement through the back.
Complications · 36mm · Automatic · 7130G-016Tap to see the back
About $69,000 new in 2026
This World Time shows all 24 time zones at once. Patek guilloches the blue-gray center by hand and sets the bezel and buckle with 89 diamonds.
Grand Complications · 36mm · Automatic · 7040/250G-001Tap to see the back
About $627,000 new in 2026
This ladies’ minute repeater chimes the time on two gongs when you ask. Its dial is hand-engraved gold under translucent blue Grand Feu enamel, and it comes with both a gold back and a sapphire back.
Gondolo · 31 × 34.8mm · Manual wind · 7042/100R-010Tap to see the back
About $264,000 new in 2026
Patek sets this cushion-shaped Gondolo with 552 diamonds and 79 Akoya pearls, 78 of them on the bracelet, around a dial paved with diamonds.
The firm took the name Patek Philippe in 1851, and the wristwatch of 1868 went to a Hungarian countess. The Sterns, who bought the company in 1932, had made its dials. Patek built the Henry Graves Supercomplication for an American banker, and the Calibre 89 marked its 150th anniversary with 33 complications.