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its genesis involved consultation with multiple divers — Jacques Cousteau among them — and brought together features that have since become iconic: the decompression scale bezel

Patek Philippe Ellipse Framed Ads in which an oxygen tankIn 1968, Patek Philippe released the Golden Ellipse. Debuting eight years before the iconic Nautilus, the Ellipse with its distinctive oval shape was unlike anything else in Patek Philippes catalogs. The case proportions relied on the ancient Greek golden section ratio of 1 1. 6181, heralded as the purest way to depict harmonious shapes. In the early 1970s, Patek expanded the Ellipse line to include squarish case shapes dubbed "TV Cases" by