06/17/2026
In January 1995, crowds waited in line for up to an hour in the cold Fort Worth winter to see a Patek Philippe exhibition held not in a jewelry store, but in a museum. Over 13 days, more than 10,000 visitors came through the Sid Richardson Museum - over ten times its typical footfall. Six specially commissioned pieces celebrating the American West through rare handcraft techniques were unveiled, all sold during the exhibition, and in the thirty years since only one has appeared at public auction, selling for $520,700 at Christie's New York in December 2025 - twelve times its original price.
This was not part of a grand plan. It happened because two families, one in Geneva and one in Fort Worth, shared the same conviction that the full story of Patek Philippe deserved to be told properly, in person, and without compromise. Edouard Henn's latest article for Collectability tells the story of how Fort Worth quietly set the template for everything that followed.
Read the article: https://collectability.com/learn/in-depth-the-origin-of-the-patek-philippe-grand-exhibitions/
