1. Antoni Norbert Patek de Prawdzic was born in 1812 to a prominent family in Piaski Szlacheckie near Lublin in the Duchy of Warsaw to Anna nee Piasecka and Joachim Patek of Prawdzic coat of arms.
12 Facts About Antoni Patek
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At the age of 10, Patek moved with his parents to Warsaw where his father died on 7 April 1828.
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On 1 March 1828,16-year-old Antoni Patek joined the Polish 1st Mounted Rifles Regiment.
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On 27 February 1831, for his heroic attitude Antoni Patek was promoted the second lieutenant of the "1 August" brigade, and on 3 October the same year decorated with Virtuti Militari Golden Cross.
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Antoni Patek was charged with a command over a staging point in Bamberg near Munich.
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Antoni Patek tried his hand at many trades, including trading with liquors and wines in Versoix near Geneva.
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For some time Antoni Patek attended painting courses given by the famous Swiss painter and engraver Alexandre Calame.
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Antoni Patek thus started by buying movements of watches which he got to the Geneva watchmakers already known for the quality of their products and, under his direction, made them furnish with cases.
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On 20 July 1839 in Versoix, Antoni Patek married Marie Adelaide Elisabeth Thomasine Denizart, a daughter of a French tradesman Louis Charles Denizart from Turin, and of his wife Marie Jeanne Adelaide Elisabeth, nee Devimes.
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In 1843, Antoni Patek was naturalized in Geneva and thus acquired Swiss nationality.
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On 18 May 1846, Antoni Patek adhered to the Polish Democratic Society of Lyon and, during the Spring of Nations in 1848, he went secretly to Frankfurt am Main to propose there, at the time of the meeting on 6 March of Dozor Polski, the convocation of the Polish Parliament in exile.
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Antoni Patek died in Geneva and was buried in a local cemetery in Chatelaine.