Thierry Stern Brilliance Could Extend Beyond Patek Philippe

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All truly great and legendary watchmakers have their name on timepieces. Breguet, MB&F, Kari V, Gerald Genta, Rexhep Rexhepi, etc. and Simon Brette. Thierry is kinda being robbed of that. His brilliance with having 20 new designs at-the-ready may be him saying he is being held back, perhaps struggling under the sheer weight of Dad's legacy and the limitations of Patek Philippe's 'design language' and tooling for production style.

TS chose the Cubitus for Patek Philippe as his first, as it may be the best he can do given the company's now-large scale production and, thus, TS' possible 'design language' limitations. A square movement was surely considered, one would think, so what happened? Surely Patek Philippe can create square movements, and it could have been manual wind with a PP record-setting 20 or 30-day power reserve. The lack of square movement is very curious.

With TS' immense responsibility to many workers, PP has grown in production from perhaps 10,000 back in the 1960s fabled Trinity days ~60 years ago, to today's modern-day PP mass production of over 50,000 pieces per year.

I would love to see Thierry given full freedom with his own brand, his own design style, and a company that follows his unique vision without limitations. He said there are 20 designs, perhaps more brilliance if he is allowed full freedom to any design style he can dream of and a truly blank sheet of paper.

Finally, Thierry Stern would have his name on the dial as we see with other legendary watchmakers.