Terms and Conditions

Copyright^© Patek Philippe. The copyright and all other intellectual property rights on the Site and all content displayed on or accessible from the Site (“Content”) is owned by or licenced to Patek Philippe and protected by the Swiss copyright laws, international copyright treaties and all other applicable copyright and intellectual property laws.
You are granted a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to access, browse and use the Site and the Content only for your own personal and non-commercial use. We may revoke your right to use this Site at any time in our sole discretion.
You may not access, copy, download, rip, distribute, modify, republish, broadcast, embed into any other site, communicate to the public, or otherwise use, deal with or exploit any part of the Site or Content without the prior written consent of Patek Philippe except as expressly permitted by these Terms and Conditions.
You must use the Site and Content only for lawful purposes and in a way which does not infringe the rights of anyone else or restrict or inhibit anyone else’s use and enjoyment of the Site and Content. You agree that you will not remove or modify any copyright, other proprietary notices or trademarks which appear on the Site or the Content.

Patek Philippe tries to ensure that the Content is correct but accepts no liability for any errors or omissions. The Content should not be relied on and Patek Philippe accepts no liability for such reliance.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law Patek Philippe excludes all warranties, representations or understandings whatsoever (whether express or implied) in relation to the Site and the Content, specifically including but not limited to, any warranty or representation that the Site and the Content are free from computer viruses, errors and omissions and do not infringe any third parties’ rights.

Patek Philippe owns the rights in and to the www.patek.com domain name. Other trademarks, products, services and company names mentioned on the Site or in Content may be trademarks of their respective owners or licensors and the rights in such marks are reserved to their respective owners or licensors.

By virtue of hypertext or other computer links you may be able to access other website pages on the Internet which are not part of Patek Philippe's Site content. Patek Philippe is not responsible for nor assumes any liability for the contents of other sites which are linked to Patek Philippe's Site. Patek Philippe shall have no liability in respect of material linked to Patek Philippe's Site which may be misleading, inaccurate, defamatory, threatening or obscene or otherwise not in accordance with applicable regulations as may be from time to time in force. The provision by Patek Philippe of a link to another site does not constitute authorization by Patek Philippe to you to access materials held at that location, nor is it evidence of any endorsement by Patek Philippe of the material held there. You acknowledge and agree that you access such third party sites, services, products or content at your own risk and are wholly responsible for making your own independent judgment regarding your use or interaction with the same. We recommend you read the privacy and terms of use policies of each third party’s site that you access.

For your own personal, non-commercial purposes, you may establish a link to our Site or any of the Content, provided that in doing so you do not damage or take advantage of our reputation or act illegally. In linking to our Site you must not imply that there is any association, approval or endorsement on the part of Patek Philippe where none exists. The Site must not be framed on any other site. Patek Philippe reserves the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

You agree that you will do any and all acts and things, and execute any and all documents, that we may reasonably request in order to carry out the intended provisions of these Terms and Conditions.

These General Terms and Conditions of Sale on patek.com (the “Terms and Conditions”) define the contractual relationship between PATEK PHILIPPE SA GENÈVE (“Patek Philippe”), a limited company by shares organized under the laws of Switzerland with registered office at rue du Rhône 41, CH – 1204 Genève, Register of Commerce of Canton de Genève nr. CH-660.0.003.901-5, referred below to as “we”, on one part, and any natural or legal person making a purchase on the Site of Patek Philippe, on his/her own behalf or for a third party, referred below to as “you”, on the other part.

In these Terms and Conditions, “we” means Patek Philippe (and “us” and “our” will be construed accordingly); and “you” means our customer or potential customer for products (and “your” will be construed accordingly).

Any person who places an order on his/her private capacity on our website (the “Site”) declares that he/she is above the age of 18 and has the legal capacity or, in the absence thereof, the parental authorization enabling him/her to enter into the contract. If not, in order to settle a possible dispute, we reserve the right to contact the person(s) having the parent care or the deputy of the concerned person directly. We will therefore be authorized, but not limited to, to require that the person(s) having the parent care or the deputy of the concerned person settles all orders placed by the concerned person.

Any person who places an order for professional use on the Site declares that he/she has the authorization from the company, entity or any other similar structure he/she is acting for, to enter into the contract in its name. In particular, if the concerned person placed an order by using his/her professional e-mail authorizes us to admit that his/her company, entity or any other similar structure accepts to pay for the placed order(s). In order to settle a possible dispute, we reserve the right to contact the person who placed the orders and will be authorized, but not limited to, to require that the concerned person settles all placed orders.

On our website, we offer to our clients the availability to place orders for:

• “Extract from the Archives” documents for any Patek Philippe timepiece older than ten years,
• books available on our website under the section “Company > Library”.

as defined hereafter.

If you cancel an order and are entitled to a refund, we will usually refund any money received from you using the same method originally used by you to pay for your purchase. We will process the refund due to you as soon as possible and, in any event, within 30 days of the day we received your valid notice of cancellation according to Article 5.7 or 6.7. This rule applies in a similar way to returns of books according to Article 6.8.

Please refer to our Website Terms and Conditions.

We undertake to use our best endeavors to provide you with the best possible service quality consistent with the work done by all our employees. However, we cannot be held liable for any delay in delivering ordered articles, in particular for any delay in delivery of these articles by post, our order delivery partner, or its international partners.

Despite our vigilance and all the precautions taken by us in dealing with the partners with whom we work to enable you to benefit from the services offered by us to you, we do not guarantee the absence of any disturbance of the working of the Site and the parts thereof. Consequently, we decline any liability for direct or indirect prejudice which may result from access to, or use of, the Site or some of its elements, just as we decline any liability which may result from the impossibility of accessing or using the Site, such as breakdowns or interruptions, network overloaded, distortion of messages, deliberate clogging of the electronic network by third parties, access breaking down or made impossible by network operators ensuing impossibility for us to process your order in due time. Similarly we decline all liability for all risks associated with the installation of software permitting consultation of the Site or for any damage resulting from errors in transmission, technical faults, overload or interruptions of communications.

We have made all the necessary arrangements to ensure the security of your payments by credit card with our partner PostFinance (https://www.postfinance.ch/). However, we decline any liability for the use of this payment facility. In particular, you recognize that we cannot be liable for loss caused to you as a result of transmission errors, impersonation, forgery, hacking or deciphering by unauthorized persons or authorities (Swiss or foreign), in particular if your computer equipment, your Internet access or your credit card are not sufficiently secure to protect you against potential risks when you make online purchases.

Moreover, you have sole responsibility in respect of any order placed which fails to comply with the legislation of the country of delivery or is prohibited on its territory and, that being so, we cannot be held liable.

Please refer to our Website Terms and Conditions.

We reserve the right to make changes to these terms at any time. You, and any contract between us, will be subject to the version of these terms in force at the time you have placed any order on our website.

We will not be held responsible for any delay or failure to perform or comply with our obligations under these Terms and Conditions if the delay or failure arises from any cause, which is beyond our reasonable control.

Each provision of these terms shall be construed separately and independently of each other. If any provision is deemed invalid, void or otherwise unenforceable, that provision shall be deemed severable from and not affect the enforceability of any of the other provisions of these terms.

These Terms and Conditions and all “Extract from the Archives” documents’ transactions and/or orders of books available in the “Library” of our Site under the section “Company” are governed by Swiss law and you irrevocably agree that the courts of Geneva, Switzerland, shall have exclusive jurisdiction to resolve any controversy or claim of whatever nature arising out of or relating to the above.