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UNESCO AWARDS LOUIS MOINET

ATELIERS LOUIS MOINET IN JULY RECEIVED A MERIT FOR DEVELOPMENT award from the
International Institute for Promotion and Prestige (IIPP) in cooperation with UNESCO.
The highly sought-after prize is awarded to companies responsible for extraordinary
achievements. This is the first-ever Merit for Development of Watchmaking Arts and
Technologies. In its fifty years of existence, the IIPP has awarded only two other distinctions in the field of watchmaking.
The IIPP award offers independent recognition of the overall work of Ateliers Louis
Moinet, conferred by an international body that rewards excellence and the significant contributions of an individual or company to their specific art. The firm joins
previous award-winners, including NASA, the Russian Academy of Sciences, Porsche,
IBM, Microsoft and Jacques Cousteau.
This distinction confirms the legitimacy of our mission achieving due recognition
for the merit of a visionary genius who successfully encapsulated the art of watchmaking and nurtured it towards unprecedented new developments, says Jean-Marie
Schaller, CEO and founder of Ateliers Louis Moinet.

SOTHEBYS TO AUCTION PATEK

PHILIPPE HENRY GRAVES
POCKET WATCH

At Liberty National Golf Course in New Jersey the team of golf ambassadors at the 2014 Audemars Piguet Golf
Invitational tournament posed just prior to their match-up with guests of the brand. The Audemars Piguet dream
team of golfers included Keegan Bradley, Bud Cauley, Darren Clarke, Victor Dubuisson, Sir Nick Faldo, Louis Oosthuizen,
Ian Poulter and Henrik Stenson, as well as professional Jonas Blixt.

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SOTHEBYS IN JULY ANNOUNCED THAT IT PLANS TO auction the Patek Philippe

Henry Graves Supercomplication in Geneva on November 14. Made in 1933, this
masterpiece of horology is among the most famous watches in the world and is
considered by many the most complicated watch ever made completely by hand.
Its reappearance on the market, fifteen years after its record sale for $11 million,
will coincide with Patek Philippes 175th anniversary celebrations. The watch will
be offered in Sothebys Geneva sale of Important Watches with an estimate in
excess of 15 million Swiss francs, or about $17 million.
The list of superlatives which can be attached to this icon of the 20th century
is truly extraordinary. Indisputably the Holy Grail of watches, the Henry Graves
Supercomplication combines the Renaissance ideal of the unity of beauty and
craftsmanship with the apogee of science, according to Tim Bourne, Sothebys
worldwide head of watches and Daryn Schnipper, chairman of Sothebys watch
division.
In 1925, Henry Graves, a prominent New York banker, commissioned Patek
Philippe to produce the most complicated watch in the world. The product of
three years of research and five years effort by the most skilled technicians, the
timepiece is a gold open-face minute repeating chronograph clockwatch with
Westminster chimes. Among the features it incorporates are a perpetual calendar,
moon phases, sidereal time, power reserve, and indications for time of sunset and
sunrise and the night sky of New York City.
With a total of twenty-four horological complications, the Graves watch retained the title of the worlds most complicated watch for fifty-six years and
even then was only surpassed by technicians working with the aid of computerassisted machines.
Sothebys first sold the watch in New York in December 1999 as part of a sale
of eighty-one masterpieces from the Time Museum. Offered with an estimate
of $3 million to $5 million, the watch excited enormous interest and sparked an
extended bidding contest, exceeding the companys wildest expectations when
it sold for a record-breaking $11 million to become the most expensive timepiece
ever sold at auction.

United States and Canada - FitzHenry Consulting at (561) 212-6812

International - Louis Moinet, Switzerland at +41 32 753 68 14, info@louismoinet.com

www.louismoinet.com

MECANOGRAPH NEW YORK

Van Cleef & Arpels

877-826-2533 | www.vancleef-arpels.com

Vertu
914-368-0432 | www.vertu.com

Welder
305-576-7396 | www.welderamerica.com

Yes
858-729-0703 | www.yeswatch.com

Van der Gang Watches

31-515 442 350 | www.vandergangwatches.nl

Viator
41-32-322-980 | www.viatorwatches.com

Wempe
212-397-9000 | www.wempe.com

Zeno
972-404-9366 | www.zenousa.com

Vanceur
www.vanceurusa.com

Victorinox Swiss Army

800-442-2706 | www.swissarmy.com

Wenger
800-431-2996 | www.wengerwatch.com

Zenith
866-675-2079 | www.zenith-watches.com

Vault Time
877-308-2858 | www.vaulttimeframes.com

Vogard
Chronotime USA | 800-364-5441

Wittnauer
800-431-1863 | www.wittnauer.com

Zinom
305-752-4631 | www.zinom.com

Venlo
781-826-0485 | www.venlocompany.com

Vostok-Europe
www.russia2all.com

Wolf Designs
866-289-9653 | www.wolfdesigns.com

Zodiac
800-699-0569 | www.zodiacwatches.com

Veraet Watch Care, LLC.

866-814-2058 | www.veraet.com

Vulcain
914-347-4200 | www.vulcain-watches.com

Worldchronos
972-900-1202 | www.worldchronos.com

Verdura
www.verdura.com

Waldan
212-308-5310 | www.waldaninternational.com

Xemex USA
866-95-XEMEX | www.teno.com

Ventura
305-573-44 76 | www.ventura-watches.com

Waltham
41-32-756-6626 | www.waltham.ch

Xetum
800-385-6238 | www.xetum.com/iw

Versace
866-425-9882 | www.versace.com

Watchwear
852-23621086 | www.watchwear.com

Yema
www.yema.com

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HERMS. PG 15

GLASHTTE ORIGINAL. PG 29

ARMIN STROM. PG 43

HERITAGE AUCTIONS. PG 59

G-SHOCK. PG 75

TWI. PG 105

ULYSSE NARDIN. PG 2

VACHERON CONSTANTIN. PG 17

BREITLING. PG 31

FRANCK MULLER. PG 45

GRAHAM. PG 61

LUMINOX. PG 77

GREUBEL FORSEY. PG 201

JAEGER-LECOULTRE. PG 4

ZENITH. PG 19

F.P. JOURNE. PG 33

FRDRIQUE CONSTANT. PG 47

KOBOLD WATCH COMPANY. PG 63

ANTIQUORUM. PG 79

TUDOR. PG 202

BELL & ROSS. PG 6

IWC. PG 21

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HUBLOT. PG 23

ORIS. PG 37

BREVA GENEVE. PG 51

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CHOPARD. PG 13

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CITIZEN. PG 57

ORBITA. PG 73

GOVBERG WATCH REPAIR. PG 103

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