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I worked for Patek for 37 years, having finished watchmaking school in Geneva in 1968 (22 years old). For the first four (4) years, I worked for the Movement Department - within which in the Prototyping Group, and then moved on to other Group to be trained for the different parts of the movement. Then I was involved in a special project - to develop very precise QUARTZ watch for Boeing airplanes. In 70s, Patek worked a lot on Quartz technology but the Quartz watch development came to an end and Patek came back to entirely mechanical watches. Then I moved on to the Technical Department which dealt with "everything BUT the movement". Then I took a leave for a short while for racing and when I came back, I worked for Product Development Department. Back then, we did not have watch designers. We did have some people working on the movement and some people drawing the sketches,etc, but there was not a general concept of "Product Development" to oversee the new product development process. But as the collection of Patek grows, Mr. Stern realized that it is necessary to better coordinate when launching new products. So, I was assigned to set up such new department, and in that project I worked closely with Mr. Stern (the father). I have very fond memories working with Mr. Stern. And I left Patek in 2008, at the age of 62
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