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Quiz: 2024.09.05 Quiz (Its Complicated)
Audemars Piguet Code 11.59 Universelle RD4 (2023). 18k white gold case in 42mm with a thickness of 15.5mm, ultra-complication with 23 complications, 40 functions. Openworked dial, sapphire crystal with display caseback, water resistance to 20m. Automatic in house calibre 1000, 90 jewels, 1140 components, calibre size 34.3mm x 8.8mm. Its is a minute repeater, grand / petite sonnerie, flying tourbillon, chronograph flyback and split-seconds, perpetual calendar. Power reserve is 64 hours Priced at CHF 1,600,000 This watch is the Grand Prix winner of the 2023 GPHG
- Sandblasted titanium case in 40mm with a thickness of 6.61mm, sapphire display caseback, blue dial with hour indexes skeletonized, paired with blue rubber strap, titanium buckle.
- Manual winding calibre BVL362 at 3.12mm thickness. Minute repeater pusher at 9 o’clock.
- Power reserve is 42 hrs
- Priced at 195,000€
- 18k ethical rose gold case in 42.5mm with a thickness of 12.58mm, sapphire crystal display caseback, sapphire crystal tourbillon bridge
- Sapphire crystal gongs
- Manual winding LUC 08.01-L movement, Chopard patented : safety device on the minute repeater, phantom quarter, monobloc sapphire crystal gong, COSC chronometer certified.
- Power reserve is 50hrs
- Limited to 20pcs
- Priced at CHF380,000
Rotonde de Cartier Grande Complication Skeleton (2015) It’s a perpetual calendar, a flying tourbillon, an astrorégulateur and a minute repeater. The movement is an in-house automatic calibre 9406 MC with 578 parts, 47 jewels and micro-rotor. The movement beats at 21,600 vph and with a 50 hours power reserve. Platinum case in 45mm. Priced at US$620,000.00
Produced by the Micro Artist Studio at the Shiojiri, Nagano facility. This is a decimal repeater that strikes on demand – for every hour, every 10-minutes and every minute. It also uses Myochin steel as the material for the gong (same steel used in traditional Japanese wind chimes). 18k pink gold case in 42.8 mm. Manual wind spring drive caliber 7R11 with a power reserve of 72 hours. Priced at US$440,000.00 (Ref: GBLS998)
Launched in 2016, 42mm titanium case, blued titanium bridges & sapphire plates, Cal. A250, 21,600VPH, Carbon caseback; Built like a supercar, its design is streamlined and based on structural optimization. Priced at 71,950USD – Only 18pcs
Sandblasted titanium case in 47mm. SkyChart, Day&Night indication and Tourbillon. Both globe made in titanium and blue is done by oxydation by laser. Continent by liquid ceramic – luminescent Saturn bridge on the earth globe. Manual winding caliber GP09320-109. Power reserve is at 60hours. Priced at CHF295,000
Stainless steel case in 42.3mm with a thickness of 11mm, sapphire crystal with display case back, water resistance 12ATM. Blue synthetic spinel domed dial at 12, hands in Globolight inserts, superluminova indexes. Automatic skeletonised tourbillon movement caliber HMC811, bi-directional winding, Cylindrical hairspring with 2 Breguet overcoils. Power reserve is 74 hours
Limited to 100pcs
Priced at CHF89,000
- Case is in 18k white gold at 51.2mm height x 31mm width x 15.5mm thickness.
- For the first time, the Reverso featuring all 4 sides of the case with displays:
- Side 1: Hour and Minute, Tourbillon (indicating the Second), Instantaneous Perpetual Calendar, Grande Date, Day, Month, Leap Year, Night & Day.
- Side 2: Jumping Digital Hour, Minute, Minute Repeater.
- Side 3: Northern Hemisphere Moon Phase, Draconic Lunar Cycle (height of the moon), Anomalistic Lunar Cycle (apogee and perigee), Month, Year.
- Side 4: Southern Hemisphere Moon Phase.
- The Triptyque with 3 sides display came out in 2006 and had a massive case 55 X 37.7mmwith a thickness of 17.9mm; making this new Quadriptyque very wearable.
- While most people paid full attention to the amazing complicated movement; I find it very refreshing that JLC had paid extra attention to the construction of the double déployant buckle; giving it very fine adjustability.
- Manual winding Calibre 185, tourbillon, minute repeater, perpetual calendar and astronomic watch.
- Power reserve is 50hrs Limited to 10pcs.
- Priced at €1.35 million
Patek Philippe complicated desk clock, Ref. 27001M-001 inspired by a desk clock delivered to James Ward Packard in 1923 (2021) for ONLY WATCH auction. Case is in Sterling silver, vermeil decorative elements, American walnut inlays, 164.6 x 125 x 76.3mm. New Patek caliber 86-135 PEND IRM Q SE, featuring a perpetual calendar, moon phases, week-number display and power-reserve indication (31 days). It is adjusted to a precision rate of -1/+1 second per day. Unique piece To be offered at Only Watch 2021 auctions conducted by Christie’s on Nov 6, 2021 Estimate 400,000-500,000CHF Sold for 9,500,000CHF