Patek Phillipe Museum
- Visit: about 3 h
Adults CHF 10 · AVS / AI / Unemployed / Students (aged 18-25) CHF 7
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Why go
- The cross-shaped watch signed by Abraham Cusin, dated 1633–1635.
- 1,000 Patek Philippe watches, alongside miniature enamel portraits and antique tools.
- Miniature automata developed in Geneva in the 1780s, often with complex mechanisms and small animal figures.
Plan your visit
Prices
From the venue's website · checked 26 Oct 2026
Opening hours
Today14:00 – 18:00Show all
Don't miss
- Watchmaking libraryMore than 8,000 works on timekeeping.Third floor
- Restoration atelierA section showing watchmaking in practice.Mezzanine
- Original stairwellThe building retains its original stairwell.Inside the museum
What's inside
- Mezzanine: historic watchmaker workbenches, old tools and the restoration workshop.
- Third floor: the company’s historical archive, miniature enamel portraits and painted snuffboxes.
- Second floor: antique watches and enamel objects from Geneva, Switzerland and Europe, including pieces dating to the 16th century, and an automata salon.
- First floor: Patek Philippe pocket watches, wristwatches, complicated and commemorative pieces, and dome clocks.
Tips for your visit
- Start on the mezzanine, then continue to the third floor and work down through the second and first floors.
- Arrange a private guided tour in advance if you want a guide in one of the seven available languages.
Tours and audio guides
- Audio guide
- French, English and German · 20 hours of recordings Follow an audio tour suggested by Philippe Stern. Nearly 10,000 photographs reveal details and objects not visible in the display cases.
- Private guided tours
- English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese and Russian Available by arrangement.
History
Philippe Stern, who led Patek Philippe from 1977 to 2009, gradually assembled the collection that inspired the museum.
- 1919–1920William Henssler built the industrial premises for Heller & Son’s watchmaking and goldsmith workshop.
- 1967–1977Piaget occupied the building.
- 1975Patek Philippe bought the building for workshops making watch cases, bracelets and straps.
- 1989After an exhibition of more than 500 company watches, Philippe and Gerdi Stern decided to create a museum.
- 1996The workshops moved to Plan-les-Ouates, leaving the building empty.
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- 1999–2001The building was restored and an extra floor was added.
- 2001The museum opened to the public in November.
Sources: Musée Patek Philippe - Wikipedia · Geneva - Wikivoyage (see) · The Patek Philippe Museum | Patek Philippe · Patek Philippe Museum - Wikipedia · Museo Patek Philippe - Wikipedia · checked 26 Sep 2026
- Phone
- +41 22 707 30 10
Questions and answers
How much are tickets to the Patek Philippe Museum?
Adults pay CHF 10. AVS/AI beneficiaries, unemployed visitors and students aged 18–25 pay CHF 7.
Are all the exhibits at the Patek Philippe Museum made by Patek Philippe?
No. The antique collection includes watches and enamel objects from Geneva, elsewhere in Switzerland and other parts of Europe.
Does the Patek Philippe Museum have a library?
The third floor houses a watchmaking library with more than 8,000 publications about time and related subjects.
Where is the Patek Philippe Museum?
It is at 7 Rue des Vieux-Grenadiers in Geneva.
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