# A Patek Philippe Calibre > I admire the art of watchmaking. The Patek Philippe GS 36-750 PS IRM calibre has 703 components, 95 jewels, six complications and three patents: mechanical perfection. - Canonical page: https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/08/patek-philippe/ - Page language: English - Published: 2024-08-07 - Tags: Hobby, Watches - Russian version: https://shorin.me/blog/2024/08/patek-philippe/index.md Once again, about a mechanical watch calibre. In the comments on my [post](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/07/watches-mechanism/index.md) about Swiss watch movements, [Erlan Ibrayev](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ерлан-ибраев-9a012251) remarked: “From a mechanical point of view, hardly anything has changed in more than 2,000 years. Apart from perhaps some new materials. As far as I remember, R. Feynman said that it all comes down to a few simple principles and rules.” That may well be true: there are only a few basic principles, with gears meshing with other gears and so on. Still, I never cease to marvel at how people came up with this particular way of combining all those gears so that they work together as a single mechanism. Let us enjoy this captivating visualisation of how a contemporary, more or less, mechanical watch calibre works. The video shows a Patek Philippe GS 36-750 PS IRM calibre. It consists of 703 components and 95 jewels, has six complications and a striking mechanism with three classical gongs. Three patents were granted for this new calibre. The striking mechanism uses three classical gongs: low, middle and high. This technical solution requires more energy than systems with two gongs. The complications of this calibre are: - Grand sonnerie. - Petite sonnerie. - Minute repeater. - Power-reserve indicator for the timekeeping mechanism. - Power-reserve indicator for the striking mechanism. - Jumping seconds hand. The patents granted for the new GS 36-750 PS IRM calibre are: - Grand sonnerie silencing in silent mode. - Striking mode selection. - Jumping-seconds indicator. This calibre is remarkably compact for such a complex mechanism: it is 37 mm in diameter and 7.5 mm high. ## Media - Video: - Poster: ## Original posts - LinkedIn: