Wincenty Gostkowski (March 29, 1807 – August 29, 1884) was a lawyer and associate of Antoni Patek and

Adrien Philippe Jean Adrien Philippe (16 April 1815, La Bazoche-Gouet, Eure-et-Loir – 5 January 1894) was a French horologist and cofounder of watchmaker Patek Philippe & Co. of Geneva, Switzerland. In 1842, Adrien Philippe invented a mechanism for watche ...

in the

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Patek Philippe & Co. in

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, Switzerland. Gostkowski was born in Grzymki,

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. He became the financier of Antoni Patek's

watchmaking A watchmaker is an artisan who makes and repairs watches. Since a majority of watches are now factory-made, most modern watchmakers only repair watches. However, originally they were master craftsmen who built watches, including all their par ...

business in Geneva that in 1851 became Patek Philippe & Co. On June 30, 1847, at the age of 40, he married a Frenchwoman Marie-Antoinette de Rabaudy from Brest, twenty years his junior. For this marriage, Antoni Norbert de Patek and Jean Adrien Philippe were two of three witnesses. Gostkowski had two sons, one of whom, Wawrzyniec, he educated in watchmaking Wincenty Gotkowski retired from Patek Philippe & Co. on January 21, 1876. He died in 1884 in

; his wife Marie-Antoinette outlived him twenty-four years.

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