1844
Antoine Norbert count de Patek
meets the talented French watchmaker
Jean-Adrien Philippe
at the Paris World Exposition 1844 and elects him as his new partner. From their collaboration emerges the prestigious watch
manufacture
Patek Philippe
.
Jean-Adrien Philippe
receives a gold medal at the Paris World Exhibition of 1844 for the
crown winding
which he had developed in
1842
.
Charles Antoine LeCoultre
invents the Millionometer, with which the first measurement of mechanical components with a precision of one thousandth of a millimeter becomes possible.
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