Friday Fun!

[Revs_Addiction]

Morning All,

Thought I'd start a little competition to make Friday go a little bit faster!

Let's see who can find the watch with the most complications! The winner gets a sense of warm satisfaction!

Here's my entrant:

The Franck Muller Aeternitas Mega 4!



Complications:

- Flying one minute tourbillon
- Split-second chronograph
- Perpetual secular calender including date,(retrograde), weekday, month,(retrograde), moonphase, year, AND leap year
- 2nd and 3rd time zones (24hr)
- Equation of time
- Minute repeater with grand and petite sonnerie
- Power reserve for movement AND repeater!

Imagine setting all that again when the 96hr power reserve runs out!

Price? POA

Sooo - Can you beat that?!

Edited by Revs_Addiction on Friday 26th March 11:04

[djtex]

Not sure how may complications on this, but sure it was a record when released a couple of years back. Truly beautiful to....

[ShadownINja]

[Mr MoJo]

I raise you, the Patek Phillipe Calibre 89.

http://marina.fortunecity.com/westindia/59/ppc89.h...

[Fittster]

Mr MoJo said:

I raise you, the Patek Phillipe Calibre 89.

http://marina.fortunecity.com/westindia/59/ppc89.h...

Date of Easter, useful.

[stevoknevo]

Don't know if it has the most, however this JLC has 26

With dazzling piece of horological craftsmanship, THE JAEGER-LECOULTRE HYBRIS MECHANICA À GRANDE SONNERIE contains 26 complications; those are:

1. Westminster Carillon
2. four-crystal-gongs
3. Grande Sonnerie
4. Petite Sonnerie
5. Silence
6. Minute Repeater
7. Flying Tourbillon
8. Flying Tourbillon
9. Perpetual and Instant Calendar
10. Perpetual and Instant Calendar
11. Days
12. Retrograde days
13. Months
14. Retrograde Months
15. Date
16. Retrograde Date
17. Jumping Hour and Minutes
18. Regulation device with inertia-blocks
19. Strike power reserve indicator
20. Watch power reserve indicator
21. Secured incremental hours setting
22. Secured incremental minutes setting forward and backward
23. Secured incremental minutes setting forward and backward
24. Striking mode selector
25. Instant minute repeater activation
26. Automatic mode’s switch
http://www.men-access.com/trilogy-of-the-most-comp...

[Mr MoJo]

The above Patek has 33.

[Fittster]

stevoknevo said:

1. Westminster Carillon
2. four-crystal-gongs
3. Grande Sonnerie
4. Petite Sonnerie
5. Silence
6. Minute Repeater
7. Flying Tourbillon
8. Flying Tourbillon
9. Perpetual and Instant Calendar
10. Perpetual and Instant Calendar
11. Days
12. Retrograde days
13. Months
14. Retrograde Months
15. Date
16. Retrograde Date
17. Jumping Hour and Minutes
18. Regulation device with inertia-blocks
19. Strike power reserve indicator
20. Watch power reserve indicator
21. Secured incremental hours setting
22. Secured incremental minutes setting forward and backward
23. Secured incremental minutes setting forward and backward
24. Striking mode selector
25. Instant minute repeater activation
26. Automatic mode’s switch

Lots of those appear to be the same and since when was silence a complication?

[stevoknevo]

Mr MoJo said:

The above Patek has 33.

It does indeed. It also weighs 3lbs and isn't a wristwatch Not that the OP specified that right enough

[stevoknevo]

Fittster said:

stevoknevo said:

blah blah blah

Lots of those appear to be the same and since when was silence a complication?

Yeah I know. Found another article on it http://ablogtoread.com/jaeger-lecoultre/jaeger-lec...
Costs $2.5million dollars and you get another two watches with it and it comes in a 450lbs safe FFS! Oh to be an oligarch.......

[andy_s]

How about the most complicated uncomplicated watch?



Tourbillon, but no way to tell the time - real oligarchs don't need to tell the time, they just need a nice bit of horology on their wrists...

http://www.uhren-atelier.ch/en/armbanduhr/h8/index...

Edited by andy_s on Friday 26th March 16:52

[fluffnik]

andy_s said:

Tourbillon, but no way to tell the time - real oligarchs don't need to tell the time, they just need a nice bit of horology on their wrists...

You still get a crown to set it with...

[Puddenchucker]

It may not have the most complications, but it's certainly complicated; the Patek Philippe Sky Moon Tourbillon: Sky Moon



Mechanical manually wound movement
Caliber R TO 27 QR SID LU CL
686 parts
Minute repeater with tourbillon escapement
Chime with two “cathedral“ gongs activated by a slide piece in the case
Front side: Perpetual calendar with retrograde date hand
Hours and minutes of mean solar time
Day, month, leap year by hands
Moon age
Crown at 4 o'clock: setting of the time and winding
Opaline-white dial with embossed Calatrava cross motif, gold applied Roman numerals
9 hands
Reverse side: sidereal time, sky chart, phase and orbit of the Moon
Crown at 8 o'clock (24-hour scale): correction of sky/moon indications

[Revs_Addiction]

Well I thought I had this one in the bag, but I can't see anything beating that Patek!

ShadowNinja - That Suunto doesn't count - it doesn't cost more than a Veyron which I think has to be another Criteria!

Andy - That tourbillon is so mad it's cool!

[Ash 996 GT2]

andy_s said:

How about the most complicated uncomplicated watch?



Tourbillon, but no way to tell the time - real oligarchs don't need to tell the time, they just need a nice bit of horology on their wrists...

http://www.uhren-atelier.ch/en/armbanduhr/h8/index...

Edited by andy_s on Friday 26th March 16:52

Whats the point?

If you can afford it, you don't need one

[fluffnik]

Ash 996 GT2 said:

andy_s said:

Whats the point?

If you can afford it, you don't need one

That's exactly the point.

[stevoknevo]

To back up my previous posts http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&v=ON2UCjufT...
Was going to say watch , however view from 1.35m onwards.

[LukeBird]

Puddenchucker said:

It may not have the most complications, but it's certainly complicated; the Patek Philippe Sky Moon Tourbillon: Sky Moon

Incredible!

[cyberface]

Revs_Addiction said:

Morning All,

Thought I'd start a little competition to make Friday go a little bit faster!

Let's see who can find the watch with the most complications! The winner gets a sense of warm satisfaction!

Here's my entrant:

The Franck Muller Aeternitas Mega 4!



Complications:

- Flying one minute tourbillon
- Split-second chronograph
- Perpetual secular calender including date,(retrograde), weekday, month,(retrograde), moonphase, year, AND leap year
- 2nd and 3rd time zones (24hr)
- Equation of time
- Minute repeater with grand and petite sonnerie
- Power reserve for movement AND repeater!

Imagine setting all that again when the 96hr power reserve runs out!

Price? POA

Sooo - Can you beat that?!

Edited by Revs_Addiction on Friday 26th March 11:04

IIRC the Aeternitas mega-complication FM watches were all 'prototypes' shown at the Swiss watch shows - none of them actually made it into production or actually worked completely AFAIK...

The JLC may rate as the 'second most complicated wristwatch' but it's more likely to exist in reality than the FM, IIRC...

Breguet's Marie-Antoinette remake has to count as something pretty spectacular as well IMO.