News Patek Philippe has appointed Peter Friess as Director and Curator of the Patek Philippe Museum. He has been assuming his new function since January 2014.
Peter Friess is a master watch and clockmaker. He was trained as a curator for historical artifacts at the Bavarian National Museum in Munich. He holds a Doctorate degree in Art History from the University of Munich. He founded and then served as Founding Director of the Deutsches Museum in Bonn. He also acted as curator for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. Previously he served as consultant for the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu (California). Most Recently Peter Friess was the President of a Science Museum in Silicon Valley (California).
Peter Friess is the author of various books, catalogs and essays on automata, watches and clocks. The overall list of his publications is quite extensive. Together with his wife, an information designer, he has specialized since 2004 in developing the historical heritage of museums and large private collections in Europe and the USA.
March 05, 2014
