The ultimate ladies’ watch
As a name that’s synonymous with the most luxurious, covetable and collectable of timepieces, you’d expect Patek Philippe to come up with something pretty special for women – and it has. The Ladies First, housed within an elegant 18ct rose gold case, is a self-winding minute repeater – a watch that beautifully chimes, at your request, the hours and minutes through a series of pitch-perfect dings. Regarded as “grand complications”, minute repeaters are some of the rarest and most elaborate timepieces, featuring hundreds of tiny components. But the Ladies First remains one of the thinnest repeaters ever made. Each takes several months to assemble and all are personally assessed by Patek’s presidents Thierry and Philippe Sterne before it is delivered to its expectant owner. And of course with something this exquisite, you can expect to pay well over £200,000 to pick one up. www.patek.com