RARE PATEK PHILIPPE MID-CENTURY Rare Omega watch Condition: Very good - unpolished

Condition: Very good - unpolished condition

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

Color: Yellow Gold

0gLength: 95

RARE PATEK PHILIPPE MID-CENTURY Rare Omega watch Condition: Very good - unpolishedFor 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