Art of Watches Grand Exhibition for the replica Patek Philippe

Patek Philippe’s “Art of Watches Grand Exhibition” will be coming to New York in mid-July, as we mentioned way back in October. This exhibition will consist of a completely huge range of important watches and clocks, covering not only Patek Philippe’s history, but the history of watch and clockmaking in general, going back over four centuries. Patek has just announced that, especially for the U.S. opening of the exhibition, a room dedicated to important watches commissioned by, or owned by, major figures in American history, will be included in the exhibition. The exhibition will be in New York from July 13 through 23 at Cipriani 42nd Street and will be approachable to the general public, free of charge.  
Apart from the dedicated U.S. exhibition space, the exhibition will include rooms dedicated to the company’s current collection, together with a Museum Room, a Grand Complications Room, and a Rare Handcrafts Gallery. Watches shown will include not only those made by the fake Patek Philippe but also historically important timepieces dating from the late Renaissance, from the Patek Philippe Museum. Here are four of the important Patek Philippe cheap watches that will be shown in the U.S. Historic Room. 
“The Packard” was commissioned by James Ward Packard in 1927, and is one of the most complicated Patek Philippe replicas watches ever made; it includes a minute repeater, perpetual calendar, running equation of time (equation of time Marchant), and sunrise and sunset times. Besides, the back has a highly detailed star chart, showing the stars visible at any time of year rising and setting in the sky above Warren, Ohio – Packard’s birthplace.
As everyone interested in watches finds out sooner or later, there was a bit of an arms race between James Ward Packard and Henry Graves, with each attempting to outdo the other in both the cost and complexity of the timepieces they ordered from Patek. For Graves, the best weapon was the ground-breaking, record-setting watch now known as the Graves “Supercomplication,” which hammered for about $24 million at auction in 2014. However Henry Graves owned many other fake watches as well, and six pieces from his collection, from the Patek Philippe Museum, will be in the US Historic room – including this one, with grande et petite sonnerie, minute repeater, and perpetual calendar with moon phase.
This particular Patek replica was given to DiMaggio by the owners of the New York Yankees and was made in 1948. Currently, in a personal collection, it has been loaned to replica Patek Philippe for the exhibition.
This clock was announced by Will Brandt, Mayor of West Berlin, to John F. Kennedy Jr. in 1963 (the day after his famous “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech). The book, Patek Philippe Museum Vol. II, says, “This portable clock, suitable with a completely autonomous quartz movement, was developed by Patek Philippe’s Electronic Division…Used in conjunction with the ‘red telephone’ and the telefax linking the White House to the Kremlin, this clock stayed on President Kennedy’s desk in the White House.” The Electronic Division was made after World War II, in 1948, and by 1958 had produced its prototype quartz clocks.