- Wincenty Gostkowski
Wincenty Gostkowski (
March 29 ,1807 -August 29 ,1884 ) was alawyer and associate ofAntoni Patek andAdrien Philippe in the Patek & Co. inGeneva ,Switzerland .Gostkowski was born in
Grzymki ,Poland . He became the financier of Antoni Patek's watchmaking business in Geneva that in 1851 becamePatek Philippe & Co. .On
June 30 ,1847 , in the age of 40, he married a Frenchwoman Marie-Antoinette de Rabaudy from Brest, twenty years his junior. For this marriage, Antoni Norbert de Patek and Jean Adrien Philippe were two of three witnesses.Wincenty Gotkowski retired from Patek Philippe & Co. on January 21, 1876. He died on 1884 in
Geneva ; his wife Marie-Antoinette survived him twenty-four years.
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