“Ref. 2499”

“An exceptionally rare model – manufactured only for a brief period between the years of 1950 and 1985 – Ref. 2499 is widely considered to be one of the most remarkable wristwatches ever designed by Patek Philippe. With only 349 units produced in history – an average of nine pieces per year – Ref. 2499 exhibits both singularity and exceptional craftsmanship. A successor to Ref. 1518 and presaging Ref. 3970, the model holds an eminent position among the firm’s perpetual calendar chronograph wristwatches.”

- Sotheby’s, read more.

Watches often serve as totems to times past. To achievements, memories of people and places, and any number of other significant pieces of a person’s life. The hope is perhaps that these tiny mechanical marvels - still beating with aplomb despite having lacked strict necessity decades ago - might bear witness to life in a way that those subsequent to us might remember us through them, and in some small way or another, allow us to defy our own mortality through memory, if only for a moment.

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Title
Ref. 2499 | New York, NY 2025

Artist
Enrique Muyshondt
Photographer & Printer

Format
8x12” print on 11x15” Stock
100% Cotton Rag Archival Paper

Capture Process
35mm Black & White Film
Developed and Scanned In-House

Printing Process
Platinum-Palladium
Digital Negative Intermediary

Edition
Three (3) + Two (2) Artist Proofs