RARE PATEK PHILIPPE MID-CENTURY Rare Omega watch Refined yet effortless

Refined yet effortless

known for dress watches and complicated movements made in very small quantities

The most frequent subjects of these pieces were wildlife

Many examples were worn as everyday luxury pieces

0 Carat Mixed-Cut Diamond Bracelet

RARE PATEK PHILIPPE MID-CENTURY Rare Omega watch Refined yet effortlessFor most of history, a woman was not expected to wear a watch. As if she had no use for time. Elizabeth I owned watches. In 1571, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, famously presented her with an elaborate jeweled watch set in an armlet as a New Year's gift. For the next three centuries, a woman's watch usually swung from a ribbon, nestled inside a pendant, or hung from a chatelaine at her waist. The wrist belonged to bracelets, lace, and gloves, not