I have this feeling that despite being kind of cool, at $250K (what a house used to cost), this watch has a slightly higher profit margin than an iPhone or iPad.
An extremely complex case stages the show. The three overlapping cylinders on three levels are configured to deconstruct time. The main circle is the hour’s domain, flanked by two pavilions. One shows the minutes on a jumping disk for the tens and a running disk for the units. The other, slightly lower, displays the regular beat of a big titanium balance-wheel.
Anarchy takes hold of the hours indication beneath the sapphire-crystal dome every 60 minutes. The numeral of the hour, assembled in the center of the circle, explodes into chaos before instantly reassembling as the new hour. It then remains still until the next disintegration. Instead of a hand, 24 placards revolve and rotate on a complicated system of gears mounted on an epicycloidal gear-train.
BTW, how many of you, like your Uncle Dave, still wear watches instead of using the smartphone that’s grafted to your hand?
I wear a Casio G-shock Waveceptor/Tough Solar day to day. Self-setting by the US atomic clock signal, never runs out of power, can quickly change time zones, and I only have to lift my arm to see the time.
I can see something handmade and this intricate running that much since it has both the standard handcrafted swiss internals and the extra parts that make up the hour hand. And hey, they wouldn’t build it if SOMEONE wasn’t going to buy it. Just not the people who think $250K is a lot of money like us normal folks.
#4 Europeans normally use 24 hour time instead of AM/PM.
Nice for us gearheads. Not practical, though.
I’ve worn a watch for over 40 years, since grade school. Present watch is a Wenger Swiss Military automatic. The leather band gave out after two years, so I replaced it with a stainless steel one.
Worthless junk for rich pricks!
I wear one of these:
http://skagen.com/item/233LTTM.fx