Throughout their history, women’s watches have complemented clothes, setting off a dress with intriguing shapes, delicate designs, and masterful decoration, but it’s the pioneering ingenuity required to fit complex feats of horological engineering into a dainty space that truly defines these pieces. The watch with Jean-Adrien Philippe innovative keyless winding and setting system patented in 1845 was presented to the queen at London’s Great Exhibition of 1851.