Antiquorum will be selling the most complicated watch in the world
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"The Supreme" - among all the clocks of the earth - are about to exit his safe or bank vault where I think that alone spends much of his time.
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The Patek Philippe Calibre 89 you see here is at the top, with 33 complications, the most complicated watch in the world ; Matsuda and comes from the collection will be sold to Lot No. 364 by Antiquorum , for the 35 th Anniversary of the house of 'auction, the next 14 and 15 November in Geneva.
A spectacular timepiece in 18k yellow gold can read mechanically: hours, minutes and seconds, second time zone, sunrise and sunset, equation of time, tourbillon, perpetual calendar, leap year correction secular, date, century , Decay, weekday, month, year, leap year cycle, seasons, equinox, solstice and zodiac signs), chart, phases and age of the Moon, the date of Easter, split-seconds chronograph, minute and hour totalizer, Wenstminster four gongs ringing, "Petit et Grand Sonnerie", minute-repeating, alarm clock, indicating the power reserve indicator, on / off switch for the ringer and the end buffer, with a double barrel replacement differential device called an hour and replacement of 4-position, the crown position indicator and thermometer.
Have you lost count? He not ... All this means that it is composed of 1,728 pieces with a weight of 1,100 grams. To make a comparison, the most complicated wristwatch in the world, Vacheron Constantin Tour de l'Ile , has "only" 16 complications and its movement is made ??up of 834 pieces, 894 in less than 89 Calibre ...
Patek Philippe began to work on it in 1980 and came to the first prototype only after 8 years of hard work, the final version was completed in 1989, 150 anniversary of the birth of Maison. Of these clocks were built only 4 animals: yellow gold, rose gold, white gold and platinum and they were all bought by a single royal family and anonymous. Lost all trace of them since the early years of the new millennium.
The copy which will be auctioned off in about 15 days ended in the hands of Yoshiho Matsuda , Japanese in Tokyo, one of the greatest collectors of watches and Ferrari in the world. Also this yellow gold was beaten at Antiquorum auction - "The Art of Patek Philippe" - April 9, 1989, at precisely the jubilee of 150 years of Patek Philippe. Even the original in the white gold was sold in 2004 by the renowned auction house.
His estimate is between $ 4,422,430 - $ 5,405,574, but in recent times we have seen, then the figures have almost always exceeded the award to clocks important, the alleged values. Let alone the King of Kings!
Antiquorum Sells Patek Philippe from a 2 million!
Sunday, November 13 Antiquorum.com the auction house specializing in vintage watches held in Geneva "Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces." Naturally, since the image of the cover of the catalog is easy to bet what the "top lot" when then represent it is a Patek Philippe as the one sold at Lot 603 , is worth waiting until the end, where masterpieces as these are usually beaten.
The Patek Philippe in question belongs to the unrestricted "millionaires club of references," the archives of Geneva report that was built in 1894, and sold for 3,750 Swiss francs to M. Hoesch EE Barbaja Villa, in the district of Naples called Mergellina.
Nearly one hundred and twenty years after it was sold for 2,098,000 CHF 1,713,000 over approximately Eur , not a bad investment: Philippe Stern - Past President of the brand - has always said " do not be in a hurry to sell a watch ... . "
Almost certainly a unique specimen , it is by far the most complicated, but it is so unusual and original.
It has a dial 24 hours, undoubtedly a special feature for a Patek Philippe, and in general for its time, but among others, is not a particularly difficult to obtain.
Than usual was made ??with extreme rigor is beyond doubt: consequently the minute repeater is activated when it beats all the 24 chimes of the hour for a period of time from midnight to 1:00 am! Then you add the quarter, conventionally played with a double chime. At this point comes into operation the reading of the minutes, played in this case with a 5-minute repeat : a peal of five teams each. Anyway to sum ??up: after the single gong hours, twice as many quarters, the minutes are marked up by a double stroke (10 minutes) because then it falls in the new quarter.
Then we have a chronograph activated by the button on the crown with coaxial tightening security. He could miss this point, a perpetual calendar? Patek Philippe at the time it took in also the one with the moon phases indicated in an elegant window by the hour - in this case - 24.
" Welcome among us, grandfather, you have a good wax, however, that I would like to tell me where you been so far "! Have thought to ask at the first opportunity (in a bank vault or at the next auction) the Patek Philippe Calibre 89 - once the most complicated watch in the world !
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