{"id":556165,"date":"2026-03-31T13:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/556165\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T13:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:06:10","slug":"breaking-news-patek-philippe-to-buy-beyer-chronometrie-worlds-oldest-watch-retailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/556165\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News: Patek Philippe To Buy Beyer Chronometrie, World&#8217;s Oldest Watch Retailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The unfortunate and <a href=\"https:\/\/watchesbysjx.com\/2025\/04\/rene-beyer-chronometrie-zurich-obituary.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">untimely death of owner Ren\u00e9 Beyer<\/a> last year at the age of 61 shocked many in the industry. We covered the brand&#8217;s museum collection <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hodinkee.com\/articles\/tallking-watches-rene-beyer\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">with Ren\u00e9 Beyer<\/a> in 2018, where he took us through his family&#8217;s relationship not just with Patek Philippe but also with Rolex, George Daniels, and others. Beyer was a true watch lover.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With his passing, control of the company went to his sister, Muriel Zahn-Beyer. But, as with the death of J\u00f6rg Bucherer in 2023, neither Beyer nor his sister had any heirs, leading to speculation that a sale could be imminent, akin to Rolex&#8217;s acquisition of the Bucherer retailer network. As it turns out, the framework for this change was put in place years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The unfortunate and untimely death of owner Ren\u00e9 Beyer last year at the age of 61 shocked many&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-556165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}