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A Quick Drive By On This Best 1:1 Replica Patek Philippe 1578GM (“General Motors”)

The story of the perfect replica Patek Philippe 1578GM is one of my favorite in vintage watches. Throughout the ’50s, about 20 Pateks were given to big-time General Motors execs, typically for 25 years of service. It might even be the only example of luxury fake Patek Philippe adding a company’s name to a reference number and commissioning a watch like this. The Wenger case has angular downturned lugs, but the cheap super clone Patek Philippe 1578GM is set apart from a stock 1578 thanks to its black dial and radial Arabic numerals. Only a dozen or so have ever appeared – a few years ago, I went through the brain damage of documenting all the publicly-sold examples.

Anyway, I was excited to see what looked like a Swiss made fake Patek Philippe 1578GM at Christie’s this week, but at second glance, it’s more of a buyer beware. While the dial is black, it doesn’t look like what’s generally accepted as a legit and original 1578GM dial. Note, in particular, the different small-seconds layout and the stick hands (usually, the 1578GM has leaf hands). Over the years, I’ve seen a few stock 1578s trying to masquerade as the rarer (and more expensive) 1578GM, and this feels like another one of those.

Worse yet, Christie’s copy-pasted its lot description from the last (legit) high quality fake Patek Philippe 1578GM it sold back in 2017. Images for the current lot clearly show a caseback engraved “C.F. Kirkland.” But the lot essay says, “The present watch belonged to Mr. K. P. Smith. The caseback of the watch reads GMC. GMOO, K.P. SMITH, 1934-1964.” However, the 2017 example Christie’s sold was K.P. Smith’s, not this one. Whoops!

This would just be an innocent little copy-paste mistake, but with a watch like the Swiss movement fake Patek Philippe 1578GM that’s driven by its history, it’d be helpful to have the story of the owner, a letter of provenance, or something (anything!) showing that this watch is what it says it is. For what it’s worth, this doesn’t look like an example of an auction house being nefarious but of being understaffed.

Finally, I’m told top billing at Christie’s is a Richard Mille Tourbillon Sapphire RM56-02 with an estimate of $3–5 million. It’s a limited edition of just ten from 2015 that feels like one of the most RM RMs, and if you’re asking yourself if you should spend your hard-earned millions on this or on Sly’s Grandmaster Chime, then I think the only reasonable question is: why not both?

Perfect Patek Philippe 5004P Replica Watches Online

In 1994, luxury fake Patek Philippe introduced the reference 5004. Like its contemporary, the 3970, it uses a Lemania base caliber, but adds a split-seconds function (or rattrapante). The package of the 1:1 replica Patek Philippe 5004 is impressive: it still measures just 36mm in diameter and 15mm in thickness, with a massive crown that operates the rattrapante function.

It’s said that after launch in 1994, Swiss made fake Patek Philippe produced around one 5004 a month, meaning it would’ve produced about 200 until it was discontinued in 2012 (when it produced a final 50 5004s in steel with the eventual owners’ names engraved on the caseback). Of the regular production 5004s, the platinum 5004P like Ed’s is the rarest. It’s an aesthetic and technical achievement, one of the most exciting aaa quality replica Patek Philippe watches ever.

The 30-Piece Limited Series 1:1 Replica Patek Philippe Minute Repeater Alarm Ref. 1938P In Honor Of Philippe Stern

On the very date of Philippe Stern’s 85th birthday, perfect replica Patek Philippe has announced a new touching tribute to the former head of the brand with a new, novel version of Stern’s favorite complication. Philippe Stern’s son – and current President of cheap fake Patek Philippe – Thierry Stern, commissioned the watch as a series of 30 to honor his father’s lifelong dedication to horology. The reference 1938P, named for Philippe Stern’s birth year, is a platinum minute repeater with an alarm and features a Grand Feu enamel portrait of Philippe Stern on the dial.

The movement is a bit of a time capsule looking back over the senior Stern’s legacy with Patek. Back in 1989, on the occasion of luxury replica Patek Philippe’s 150th anniversary, Philippe Stern announced the self-winding minute-repeater caliber “R 27”, the first movement of its kind designed and built entirely in-house in Patek’s workshops. Under Mr. Stern’s guidance, top super clone Patek Philippe slowly expanded its range of minute repeaters – his favorite grand complication – to become the largest collection in production across the industry.

Then, in 2014, AAA quality replica Patek Philippe unveiled the Grandmaster Chime Reference 5175 for the manufacture’s 175th anniversary, the most complicated Patek Philippe wristwatch, equipped with the manually wound caliber 300 “GS AL 36-750 QIS FUS IRM”. That watch combined five acoustic functions, including an alarm chiming the time.

Today, Patek Philippe super clone for sale has combined these two achievements with the new 1938P movement, the new caliber “R AL 27 PS.” The movement is built off the base of the “R 27” and combines a minute repeater and alarm exclusively for the first time. The movement is self-winding (though it can be wound manually with the crown in the first position) with 48 hours of power reserve. The chiming function features two gongs that will chime out either the time during the activation of the minute repeater or if the alarm is active.

The Swiss movement replica Patek Philippe required four new patents and 227 additional parts, including a lever and column wheel to select the chiming mode and a fusee device with a strike-work detent mechanism that temporarily disconnects the power source (the strike-work barrel drum) from the striking mechanism. Those four patents cover the following: Safely switching between chiming modes (alarm on or off as set by a pusher on the crown); delaying the alarm strike until the right moment; ensuring, in every case, the correct strike sequence of “hours, quarters, and minutes.”

The Breguet-style center alarm (with Breguet-style rose gold hand) has its own fascinating function. The alarm is set with the crown pulled out to the middle position, where the hand will point to a time on the dial as if it’s a 12-hour indicator and will only set in 15-minute increments, pointing to a scale in powdered rose gold on the edge of the dial. To allow the maximum number of chimes to be heard, the alarm of high quality fake Patek Philippe Reference 1938P-001 always strikes two minutes before the programmed time so that the wearer will get the full effect of the chime of the repeater instead of just the shorter gong sequence for only hours.

The Swiss made replica Patek Philipe‘s platinum case measures 41mm thick with a total height of 14.2mm and a 49.4mm lug-to-lug. The Grand Feu black enamel dial has a portrait of Philippe Stern and Breguet numerals and hands in white gold (with the aforementioned rose-gold alarm hand). It’s also an officer’s-style case, which swings out to reveal both the movement and an engraving on the inside of the caseback: À mon père, 85 ans de passion horlogère. “To my father, 85 years of watchmaking passion.” For these 30 special pieces, the price is, of course, on request.