RARE PATEK PHILIPPE MID-CENTURY Rare Omega watch 56gLength: 44cm/17

56gLength: 44cm/17

known for dress watches and complicated movements made in very small quantities

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Condition: Very good - unpolished condition

Color: Yellow Gold

RARE PATEK PHILIPPE MID-CENTURY Rare Omega watch 56gLength: 44cm/17For most of history, a woman was not expected to wear a watch. As if she had no use for time. Elizabeth I owned watches. In 1571, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, famously presented her with an elaborate jeweled watch set in an armlet as a New Year's gift. For the next three centuries, a woman's watch usually swung from a ribbon, nestled inside a pendant, or hung from a chatelaine at her waist. The wrist belonged to bracelets, lace, and gloves, not