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Patek Philippe SA is a Swiss luxury watch and clock manufacturer, located in the Canton of Geneva and the Vallée de Joux.

Established in 1839, it is named after two of its founders, Antoni Patek and Adrien Philippe.

Since 1932, the company has been owned by the Stern family in Switzerland and remains the last family-owned independent watch manufacturer in Geneva.

Patek Philippe is one of the oldest watch manufacturers in the world with an uninterrupted watchmaking history since its founding.

It designs and manufactures timepieces as well as movements, including some of the most complicated mechanical watches.

The company maintains over 400 retail locations globally and over a dozen distribution centers across Asia, Europe, North America, and Oceania.

In 2001, it opened the Patek Philippe Museum in Geneva.

Rolex SA is a Swiss watch designer and manufacturer based in Geneva, Switzerland.

Founded in 1905 as Wilsdorf and Davis by Hans Wilsdorf and Alfred Davis in London, the company registered Rolex as the brand name of its watches in 1908 and became Rolex Watch Co. Ltd. in 1915.

After World War I, the company moved its base of operations to Geneva because of the unfavorable economy in the United Kingdom.

In 1920, Hans Wilsdorf registered Montres Rolex SA in Geneva as the new company name (montre is French for clock or watch); it later became Rolex SA.

Since 1960, the company has been owned by the Hans Wilsdorf Foundation, a private family trust.

A watch is a portable timepiece intended to be carried or worn by a person.

It is designed to keep a consistent movement despite the motions caused by the person's activities.

A wristwatch is designed to be worn around the wrist, attached by a watch strap or other type of bracelet, including metal bands, leather straps, or any other kind of bracelet.

A pocket watch is designed for a person to carry in a pocket, often attached to a chain.

In economics, a luxury good (or upmarket good) is a good for which demand increases more than what is proportional as income rises, so that expenditures on the good become a greater proportion of overall spending.

Luxury goods are in contrast to necessity goods, where demand increases proportionally less than income.

Luxury goods is often used synonymously with superior goods.

Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic.

Another solid form of carbon known as graphite is the chemically stable form of carbon at room temperature and pressure, but diamond is metastable and converts to it at a negligible rate under those conditions.

Diamond has the highest hardness and thermal conductivity of any natural material, properties that are used in major industrial applications such as cutting and polishing tools.

They are also the reason that diamond anvil cells can subject materials to pressures found deep in the Earth.