Elgin Yellow Gold Filled Art Deco Watch
By Elgin
Located in Long Beach, CA
The Swiss paid licensing fees to Elgin for many of their inventions in watchmaking. Patek Philippe even used Elgin’s technology in their Balance Wheels in the 1950’s.
Piaget Diamond Onyx 18K Gold Retro Round Large Cufflinks
By Piaget
Located in Miami, FL
These Collectable pair of Patek Piaget cufflinks Circa 1990's were crafted in 18K white gold.
Diamond, Onyx, 18k Gold
Van Cleef & Arpels 18k Yellow Gold Rope Onyx Cufflinks
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
These versatile cufflinks would look sharp paired with your Rolex or Patek Philippee Watch Weight: 11.65 grams Face Dimensions: 12mm x 12mm x 7mm 1/2 inch Marked: 'Van Cleef & Arp...
Onyx, Yellow Gold
Elgin Yellow Gold Filled Art Deco Watch with Rare Black Dial Articulated Lugs
By Elgin
Located in Long Beach, CA
The Swiss paid licensing fees to Elgin for many of their inventions in watchmaking. Patek Philippe even used Elgin’s technology in their Balance Wheels in the 1950’s.
Gold-filled, Yellow Gold
Tiffany & Co. "Diamonds of Tiffany" Platinum and Diamond "Loop" Earrings
By Tiffany & Co.
Located in New York, NY
Also featured were Paloma Picasso jewels and Elsa Peretti, as well as Tiffany Circus figures by Gene Moore and wristwatches by Patek Philippe, Breguet, and Chopard.
Diamond, Platinum
Elgin Yellow Gold Filled Art Deco Watch circa 1940's with Flawless Original Dial
By Elgin
Located in Long Beach, CA
The Swiss paid licensing fees to Elgin for many of their inventions in watchmaking. Patek Philippe even used Elgin’s technology in their Balance Wheels in the 1950’s.
Gold-filled
Elgin Yellow Gold Filled Art Deco Watch circa 1940's Articulated Lugs
By Elgin
Located in Long Beach, CA
The Swiss paid licensing fees to Elgin for many of their inventions in watchmaking. Patek Philippe even used Elgin’s technology in their Balance Wheels in the 1950’s.
Gold-filled
Elgin Watch Company Yellow Gold Filled Art Deco Watch circa
By Elgin
Located in Long Beach, CA
The Swiss paid licensing fees to Elgin for many of their inventions in watchmaking. Patek Philippe even used Elgin’s technology in their Balance Wheels in the 1950’s.
Gold-filled
Elgin Gold Filled Art Deco Watch
By Elgin
Located in Long Beach, CA
The Swiss paid licensing fees to Elgin for many of their inventions in watchmaking. Patek Philippe even used Elgin’s technology in their Balance Wheels in the 1950’s.
Gold-filled
Elgin Mid Century Watch all Original with Original Box 1950's or 60's
By Elgin
Located in Long Beach, CA
The Swiss paid licensing fees to Elgin for many of their inventions in watchmaking. Patek Philippe even used Elgin’s technology in their Balance Wheels in the 1950’s.
Gold-filled
Movado Stainless Steel Art Deco High Grade Chronograph with Original Dial 1940's
By Movado
Located in Long Beach, CA
It is indeed to most complicated chronograph produced during the era, even Patek and Valjoux did not design to these stringent standards.
Elgin Gold Filled Art Deco Tonneau Shaped Watch with Original Dial 1940's
By Elgin
Located in Long Beach, CA
The Swiss paid licensing fees to Elgin for many of their inventions in watchmaking. Patek Philippe even used Elgin’s technology in their Balance Wheels in the 1950’s.
Gold-filled
Elgin Yellow Gold Filled Shockmaster Art Deco Watch, 1950's Flawless Dial
By Elgin
Located in Long Beach, CA
The Swiss paid licensing fees to Elgin for many of their inventions in watchmaking. Patek Philippe even used Elgin’s technology in their Balance Wheels in the 1950’s.
Gold-filled
Elgin Rose Gold Filled Art Deco Watch Tortue Shaped Watch from 1940's
By Elgin
Located in Long Beach, CA
The Swiss paid licensing fees to Elgin for many of their inventions in watchmaking. Patek Philippe even used Elgin’s technology in their Balance Wheels in the 1950’s.
Gold-filled, Rose Gold
Elgin Yellow Gold Filled Art Deco Tank Style with Original Patinated Dial 1950's
By Elgin
Located in Long Beach, CA
It is fitted with their experimental balance. Patek Philippe used this system in their own watches years later as did many other famous Swiss houses.
Lord Elgin Yellow Gold-Filled Shockmaster Art Deco Watch 1950's Original Dial
By Lord Elgin
Located in Long Beach, CA
The Swiss paid licensing fees to Elgin for many of their inventions in watchmaking. Patek Philippe even used Elgin’s technology in their Balance Wheels in the 1950’s.
Gold-filled
Jaeger LeCoultre Inline Skeleton Clock
By Jaeger-LeCoultre
Located in Amersham, GB
From 1902 and for the next 30 years, LeCoultre & Cie. produced most of the movement blanks for Patek Philippe of Geneva. This clock comes with our two year guarantee
Gold, Gold Plate, Brass
Elgin Gold Filled De Luxe Art Deco Watch, circa 1940's with Custom Finished Dial
By Elgin
Located in Long Beach, CA
The Swiss paid licensing fees to Elgin for many of their inventions in watchmaking. Patek Philippe even used Elgin’s technology in their Balance Wheels in the 1950’s.
Gold-filled
Elgin Mid Century Manual Winding Watch with Original Silvered Dial
By Elgin
Located in Long Beach, CA
The Swiss paid licensing fees to Elgin for many of their inventions in watchmaking. Patek Philippe even used Elgin’s technology in their Balance Wheels in the 1950’s.
Gold-filled
Lord Elgin 14Kt Solid Gold Art Deco Watch circa 1950's Vault Find
By Lord Elgin
Located in Long Beach, CA
The Swiss paid licensing fees to Elgin for many of their inventions in watchmaking. Patek Philippe even used Elgin’s technology in their Balance Wheels in the 1950’s.
Gold
Elgin Yellow Gold Filled Art Deco Watch circa 1960's with Original Dial
By Elgin
Located in Long Beach, CA
The Swiss paid licensing fees to Elgin for many of their inventions in watchmaking. Patek Philippe even used Elgin’s technology in their Balance Wheels in the 1950’s.
Gold-filled, Yellow Gold
Elgin Ladies Solid Gold Art Deco Watch with Cord Band 1940s and Box
By Elgin
Located in Long Beach, CA
The Swiss paid licensing fees to Elgin for many of their inventions in watchmaking. Patek Philippe even used Elgin’s technology in their Balance Wheels in the 1950’s.
14k Gold
Elgin Yellow Gold Filled Open Face American Pocket Watch circa 1912 Enamel Dial
By Elgin
Located in Long Beach, CA
The Swiss paid licensing fees to Elgin for many of their inventions in watchmaking. Patek Philippe even used Elgin’s technology in their Balance Wheels in the 1950’s.
Rolex Stainless Steel with Rare Original Dial and Bracelet from 1953
By Rolex
Located in Long Beach, CA
It is my grandfather's steel Patek Calatrava).
Elgin Yellow Gold Filled from 1939 with Hand Engraved Monogram Tortue Shaped
By Elgin
Located in Long Beach, CA
The Swiss paid licensing fees to Elgin for many of their inventions in watchmaking. Patek Philippe even used Elgin’s technology in their Balance Wheels in the 1950’s.
Gold-filled, Yellow Gold
$9,750 / set
Sinar P Expert Kit Large Format 4X5
Located in valatie, NY
I used the camera for photographing fine art and architectural photography. This is the Patek Phillipe of photography.
Aluminum
Patek Philippe White Gold Manual Wind Wristwatch
By Patek Philippe
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
All the watch parts are original Patek Philippe. Original Patek Philippe black alligator leather strap 18 karat white gold clasp.
18k Gold, White Gold
Elgin Yellow Gold Filled Art Deco Watch, circa 1940's Luminous Original Dial
By Elgin
Located in Long Beach, CA
The Swiss paid licensing fees to Elgin for many of their inventions in watchmaking. Patek Philippe even used Elgin’s technology in their Balance Wheels in the 1950’s.
Gold-filled
It shouldn’t be surprising that a Patek Philippe holds the world auction record for a watch ($31.2 million for a Patek Grandmaster Chime, sold at Christie’s). Known for impeccable craftsmanship and some of the most complicated timepieces ever created, the brand is considered by many to be the height of fine watchmaking. Collectors simply love Patek Philippe watches.
The house was founded in Geneva in 1839 by Polish expats Antoni Patek and Franciszek Czapek. Czapek left the firm, and in 1845, Patek partnered with French watchmaker Jean Adrien Philippe. It was the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Catering to the glitterati of Europe, the pair counted among their clients Tolstoy, Pope Pius IX and Queen Victoria, as well as Countess Koscowicz of Hungary, for whom they created the first Swiss-made wristwatch in 1868. They also had their eye on the American market and in 1851 entered an arrangement with Tiffany & Co. still in effect today.
During the Great Depression, brothers Jean and Charles Stern, who had previously supplied Patek Philippe with watch dials, bought the company, and it continues to be run by the Stern family today.
Under the Sterns, the house has developed some of its most famous models, including the Calatrava, an elegantly minimal dress watch introduced in 1932 and named for the Calatrava Cross (the company’s logo since 1887), and the Nautilus, the brand’s first sports watch, conceived by legendary designer Gérald Genta in 1976.
Despite the house’s longevity, it’s rumored that it has manufactured fewer than a million Patek watches, making each one all the more coveted. (The brand's pieces are understandably attractive to counterfeiters — make sure you know how to spot a fake Patek Philippe watch.)
Find authentic Patek Philippe watches, cufflinks, bracelets and more on 1stDibs today.
Antique, vintage and luxury wristwatches have captured the hearts and minds of all manner of watch collectors as well as the watchmakers themselves — it's time you found your own.
Certain vintage watches for men and iconic watch designs for women are sought after not only because of their graceful proportions or innovative materials but also because of the illustrious histories of the houses that created them, histories that they stylishly embody.
Bulgari’s legendary Serpenti watch was on everyone’s list after the collection’s bold bracelet, which technically debuted after the timepiece, graced the wrist of actress Elizabeth Taylor. If anything, elaborately crafted timepieces — the unmistakably boxy silhouette of Cartier Tank watches, the elegant and minimal Calatrava designed by legendary Swiss house Patek Philippe — are even more effective than the shape we associate with traditional wristwatches.
Form watches — the all-encompassing moniker bestowed upon non-round watches — are making headlines and completing contemporary fashionable ensembles the world over. At the same time, both casual fans and careful collectors are drawn to the unbeatable charm of vintage styles, such as the icons designed by Omega that even James Bond can’t resist.
In the early days of watchmaking, watches were fragile enough that they necessitated protection from the elements. Now, wristwatches made of gold and steel can withstand the harshest climates — even 100 meters underwater, in the case of Rolex’s Submariner. Designer Gérald Genta, whose range of clients included Rolex, created for Audemars Piguet the first luxury sports timepiece to be made from stainless steel. First introduced in 1972, the Royal Oak was a perfect choice for blending the form and function that are now synonymous with sports watches.
Are you shopping for a wristwatch? It’s good to keep your needs as well as your specific personal style in mind: A smaller, subtle timepiece is a good fit for small wrists. When will you be wearing your new accessory? There’s a versatile model out there for everyday wear, while a rugged, feature-heavy watch is a safe bet if you’re prone to embarking on all-weather activities in the great outdoors.
Find antique, vintage and luxury wristwatches for sale on 1stDibs.
Launched in 1932, the model has become emblematic of quality craftsmanship and timeless design.
Style, craft and heritage combine to make these designs undeniable classics.
Celebrate the season with a Patek watch made for enjoying the outdoors.
As the cache goes on display at London’s Design Museum, we speak to its enigmatic owner about some of his rarest acquisitions.
These companies have stood the test of time, making exceptional pieces for generations.
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Men, women and the watchmakers themselves are falling for the old-fashioned charm of retro timepieces.