Behold: the Patek Philippe Grandmaster Chime Steel watch ( ref. 6300A-010) – a thing of beauty and great mechanical subtlety.
Its stainless steel reversible case has two dials. One tells the time, date, and moon phase – all rendered in rose gold. the opposing ebony dial displays calendar information. There are twenty complications, including five acoustic functions, an alarm that strikes the preprogrammed time and a repeater that sounds the date on demand. The strap is hand-stitched black alligator leather.
But never mind all that.
Last Friday, it sold at auction for €28 million, (the previous record, for a Rolex Daytona being €16.1 million) making it the world’s most expensive wristwatch.
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A guy at the bar checks the time very ostentatiously on his Patek Philippe watch.
Another guy beside asks what time it is:
“Its 9.14 exactly” says our friend proudly.
The other guy pulls up his sleeve to reveal a $20 Timex and says;
“Yeah, same here”,
I’ll be in Coppers Saturday if anyone wants to see it up close.
The timex?
Between 9 and half 9. See you then.
Imagine having the chance to chat with the owner of said watch.
What on earth would one say?
Can’t imagine they’d really want a proper chat, though.
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Time is a mental construct used to make sense of movement,
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Confidence is a preference for the habitual voyeur of what is known as…
you had me at voyeur..
a mate of my flatmate brought this guy over once, who works in a watch shop. he was there with his fancy pilot’s watch, explaining how the glass was unbreakable and proceeded to pick up a knife and start hammering the watch face with it.
smash.
we had no words of comfort for the poor lad. me, if i want to know the time i check my phone.
I keep on buying watches online when I’m drunk.
Is that because someone is shouting; “Time ladies and gentlemen please” at you – regularly?
:)
it would still stop on my arm…cursed I be