Loans on Patek Philippe Watches

We offer loans from £500 up to £2 million. Suttons and Robertsons can lend up to 60% of the value of your Patek Philippe watch. This means that if you are pawning a Patek Philippe Grand Complication watch valued at £75,000, we could lend you a maximum of £45,000 (60% of the value). We always aim to provide our clients with the maximum loan amount though the amount depends on many factors including the model, condition, age, provenance and market value.

Yes. Suttons and Robertsons are an in-store and online pawn shop. If you want to transact with us from home, rather than coming into one of our stores, you can apply online use our secure home collection service. If you use our home collection service and decide you don’t want to accept our loan offer, we will arrange for your item(s) to be returned to you free of charge. Alternatively, you are welcome to collect your item(s) in-store.

It is beneficial to have your watch cleaned to have any cosmetic damage such as dents or scratches repaired prior to getting a valuation. Even if your Patek Philippe watch is in good cosmetic condition, it is important to have it regularly serviced to ensure it remains in full working order.

Yes. If you decide you don’t want to pawn your watch, you can sell your Patek Philippe watch to us. Get a quote with us online, in-store or by phone today.

As the Jet D’Eau crashes down upon Lake Geneva, some of the most outstandingly stunning watches in the world are being painstakingly pieced together a few short kilometres away. Patek Philippe watches are considered by many to rank among the most prestigious watch brands in the world. As central London pawnbrokers, we have the luxury of examining many brands but Patek Phillipe stands out from other brands for their sheer mechanical brilliance and meticulous attention to detail. Not many things in life links Pope Pius IX to Queen Victoria, but it seems that their mutual appreciation of Patek Philippe timepieces does just that. Loans on Patek Phillipe watches are straightforward for pawnbrokers in London, like Suttons and Robertsons – the quality underwrites the investment. Yet what makes the story of the Patek Phillipe brand so fascinating? The Patek Philippe story stretches back beyond many other watch brands and speaks of a Europe of a different time. Antoni Patek had criss-crossed his way across Europe and Prussia, fighting in the Polish army, before settling in Geneva to make watches with Czech partner, Franciszek Czapek. Not all partnerships are meant to be – following an acrimonious split in 1844 – Patek began to work with French watchmaker Adrien Philippe, the inventor of the key-less winding mechanism. A clever business partnership, the Patek Philippe brand is still considered to be one of the most important brands of luxury watches in the world whereas Czapek’s solo venture ceased trading in 1869. Since it’s conception in 1845, Patek Philippe has secured more than 80 patents for a great many of their movements, cases, hands, dials and appearance. Many of these patents have inspired and informed progress development throughout the watch making community. Phillipe developed one of the greatest innovations in timepieces when he created the keyless watch, removing the need for a tiny – very fiddlesome – watch key. Integral to the watch, keys were no longer lost or easily broken. In addition to the double chronograph patent the first self-winding wrist prestige watch in 1953, Patek Philippe have developed many innovations that it’s hard to believe are such recent additions to chronology. In 1959, the brand launch the time zone watch that made it possible to track times across the world while, in 1985, they developed a mechanism by which the ever-moving Easter date could be determined. One of Patek Philippe’s more mind-boggling patents demonstrates just how seriously the brand takes precision. Philippe Patek expects their watches to last more than one life time. This means that – as well as a superb heirloom – this prestige watch is expected to deal with the idiosyncrasies of the Gregorian calendar. The Patek Philippe secular perpetual calendar means that the watch keeps the full 400-year cycle of the Gregorian calendar – at the end of every century – the mechanism decides whether it is a leap year or not. This means that a Patek Philippe is precise to the second as well as the century at any given moment in time.

In a world that adores the Rolex, it can pay to look around when it comes to buying investing in watches; Patek Philippe offers the buyer something that not many other prestige watchmakers can offer – independence. Family-run, with no shareholders to be beholden to, Patek Philippe can pour all of its time, energy expertise into its products. This could be the reason that they feature 8 times in the list of top ten watches ever to be sold at auction. As luxury pawnbrokers since 1770, we get to work with some of the finest watches and jewellery on the planet but, when a Patek Philippe arrives at Suttons and Robertsons, it’s always a special experience. This luxury watchmaking brand was founded in 1839 by Antoine Norbert de Patek François Czapek. Called Czapek & Cie, they produced quality Swiss watches for almost a century, until it was bought in 1932 by the Stern family. A Patek Philippe watch is a thing of great beauty, style and expertise but, even within the ranges, there can be some models that ‘speak’ to you more than others. This Patek Philippe Buyers’ Guide will give you the clarity insight you need to navigate the world of Patek Philippe, putting you in the picture when it comes to investing in this outstanding brand. This Swiss-based watch manufacturer is all about horology. Their focus falls purely on precision time-telling. Although they do make sports watches, they don’t expect you to dive deep or fly high with a Patek. Making around 50,000 watches a year, 35,000 of these are mechanical men’s watches – with these watches, they are making Patek wearers, collectors and families who invest in legacies very happy indeed. Patek Philippe categorises their watches into ‘families’, bringing some order to a seemingly endless number of models, made from different materials, some of which have superb complications. Calatrava The Calatrava is as much a statement on socio-economics as it is in horology. Patek Philippe’s response to the Great Depression, the Swiss watchmaker launched a Bauhaus-inspired dress watch in the late 1920s. It’s simple understated elegance captured the zeitgeist of the time has remained a solid investment ever since. Demonstrating an awareness of the mood of the world, Patek might still have been a solution to buying a luxury watch in hard times for the few but the brand created a stunning timepiece, which is as relevant in the 2020s as it was in the 1920s. Nautilus Even the Patek brand refers to the Nautilus as ‘sporting elegance’. With a resolute self-awareness that the Nautilus is the watch for those who live an active lifestyle, rather than summiting Everest, the Nautilus includes models made for women and men. Launched in the mid-1970s, the Nautilus’ porthole-inspired design rounded octagonal shape bezel are suggestive of a sporty life that proved endlessly popular. If you want to invest in a Patek Philippe Nautilus, you can join the long waiting list for new or research the pre-owed options. If you’re hoping to sell or pawn your Patek Philippe Nautilus, the news that they are in constant demand can only be good. Aquanaut With the Nautilus a resounding success for two decades, Patek launched the Aquanaut in 1997. Brought to market as Patek’s affordable sports watch, it was ready to hit the water. With sportier credentials than the Nautilus, the Aquanaut has proved just as popular and is usually in high demand, but low supply – particularly in steel. Patek will often pavé the Aquanaut with diamonds to create a sparkling masterpiece that will twinkle beautifully. Complications and Grand Complications A straightforward rather than complex concept, Complications and Grand Complications simply refer to mechanical devices that do something other than tell the time. In practice, however, these complications allow Patek to excel at intricate watchmaking for the sake of it. Rather than a luxury that no one needs, Patek Philippe complications capture the very essence of what it is to be alive to enjoy the time that we have on earth. Complications can include World Time Displays range from simple dials to enormously decorative faces. Currently, Patek produce 41 complication models with many models featuring two or more complications. There is a tacit agreement among watch-lovers that Pateks with three or more complications – not including the date – constitute a Grand Complication. More than watches, Grand Complications are thought of as works of horology art with devices created for the sheer joy of them. There are 34 Grand Complication models, which include minute repeaters tourbillons. The greatest of them all, the Grandmaster Chime, hosts 20 complications. Gondolo More petite, but just as perfectly formed, is the Gondolo. Created particularly for women, Goldolo models are Art Deco-inspired, elegant, feminine and often feature diamonds as the star of the show. While Patek still devote their time energy to creating the Gondolo as a timekeeping masterpiece, these watches have been designed as much as jewellery as they have watches. Twenty 4 While the 1990s seemed to be all about being seeing the Millennium out with a bang, Patek Philippe turned the volume down with launch of the Twenty 4 in 1999. Made with women at the heart of the design, the Twenty 4 took the form of a slender rectangle or a smaller round face. Often studded with jewels, the Twenty 4 is understated elegance in watch form. Golden Ellipse The Golden Ellipse is more than just a watch – even with Patek Philippe, that’s a bit of a statement to make. Launched in 1968, the Golden Ellipse is oblong, ultra-thin often teamed with a gold bracelet. Once paused but now back, brighter than ever, the Golden Ellipse’s case sits somewhere between a circle a rectangle. Stunning to look at, the Golden Ellipse is also very much in harmony with the world around it. Inspired by the ‘golden section’, discovered by ancient Greek mathematicians declared the ‘divine’ proportion, the Golden Ellipse’s fundamental design is akin to some of the world’s greatest works of art architecture, including the Taj Mahal the Parthenon ‘The Last Supper’. Looking to loan against or sell your Patek Philippe watch? Contact us today for a free quote. You can also shop our pre-owned Patek Philippe products online.