Zur eigentlichen Thematik noch ein Auszug aus einem anderen (me interessanteren) Interview mit T.Stern .


“I’m not prepared, first, only to sell Nautilus, because I think it’s dangerous,” Stern says, unyielding. “And second, because I’m not prepared to open to a higher quantity of steel watches. I would like to sell the whole collection. We have about 140 different types of watches and steel is just a part of it; I also need to create gold watches and platinum watches, I’m not prepared to go into carbon or whatever.„

“It took us too long to be at the level of gold and platinum. Look what happened to IWC in the past, they went down to steel and now they have a hard time to get back to gold. For Patek it’s simply not possible. So, steel watches are always set at a certain percentage - what it is we don’t say, but it’s not a big one. That’s why sometimes you have four or five years waiting time for the Nautilus. Aquanaut is a little bit less, but for sure the demand is there.”