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Patek Philippe Henry Graves Supercomplication

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280:, grande and petite sonnerie, split seconds chronograph, registers for 60-minutes and 12-hours, perpetual calendar accurate to the year 2100, moon-phases, equation of time, dual power reserve for striking and going trains, mean and sidereal time, central alarm, indications for times of sunrise/sunset and a celestial chart for the nighttime sky of New York City at 40 degrees 41.0 minutes 113:, no. 174.129), and another in 1927 with ten complications (the "Packard Sky Chart", no. 198.023) and two for Graves, the "Grand Complication" (1926, no. 198.052) and "Supercomplication" (1932, no. 198.385). However, the rivalry story is apocryphal, and it is not clear that Packard and Graves ever met; the rivalry may have been fabricated in the early 1990s as a 929:
split-second timer, 60-min. register, alarm, dials showing conditions of motor springs, second hand. Other face (right) has hour, minute, second hand for sidereal (star) time, indicator giving differences between apparent solar and sidereal time, sunrise and sunset dials, celestial chart of visible
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Patek Philippe produced its first grand complication pocket watch in 1898 (no. 97.912); it had previously been believed the firm's first grand complication had been produced in 1910, and the second was delivered to Packard in 1916. The rivalry between Packard and Graves, who both commissioned
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It took three years to design, and another five years to manufacture the watch, which was delivered to Henry Graves on January 19, 1933. The Supercomplication was the world's most complicated mechanical timepiece for more than 50 years, with a total of 24 different functions. These included
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15,000) when he commissioned it in 1925. Adjusting for inflation, the sum is roughly equivalent to $ 219,000 in 2019. When he took delivery, he did not want to be known as the owner of "the world's most complicated watch", fearing the threat to his family based on the notoriety of the
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Its diameter is 74 millimetres (2.9 in); thickness of case with glass 36 millimetres (1.4 in); and weight 536 grams (18.9 oz). The case alone weighs 250 grams (8.8 oz) and was manufactured by Luc Rochat of L'Abbaye. Other credited watchmakers include:
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World's most complicated watch took Patek, Philippe's Geneva craftsmen 3 years to plan and 5 years to make for a private collector who paid $ 15,000 for it. Besides telling time, one face (at left) has a perpetual calendar (which takes care of leap year), moon phases,
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The timepiece contains 920 individual parts, with 430 screws, 110 wheels, 120 removable parts, and 70 jewels, all of them handcrafted on a tiny scale. The timepiece is a gold, double-dialled and double-openfaced, minute repeating clockwatch with
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serving as proxy for an anonymous entity, reached 23,237,000 Swiss Francs, equivalent to US$ 24 million at the time. The sum established a new highest price for a timepiece, including both pocket watches and wristwatches.
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announced that in November 2014, the pocket watch would once again be auctioned. On 11 November 2014, the watch was sold in Geneva, Switzerland. The final price, bid by
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died in 1953. His daughter Gwendolen inherited the Supercomplication and in 1960 passed it to her son, Reginald 'Pete' Fullerton. In 1969, Fullerton sold the piece to
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timepieces from Patek Philippe, included two singular grand complication watches for Packard, one delivered in 1916 with sixteen complications (
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on 11 November 2014; that has since been exceeded by the sale of the Patek Philippe Grandmaster Chime at the Only Watch charity auction at
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constellations at every hour. It also strikes hours, quarters and minutes automatically or at will. Works (center) contain 870 parts.
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The Illustrated Directory of Watches: A Collectors Guide to Over 1000 Timepieces, from Classic Designs to Luxury Fashionware
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who supposedly commissioned it out of his desire to outdo the Grande Complication pocketwatch of American automaker
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on 2 December 1999. From 2001 to 2005, the Supercomplication was exhibited at the
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by Alan Banbery, a former director of Patek Philippe, for the unveiling of the
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Westminster chimes, a perpetual calendar, sunrise and sunset times, and a
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A Grand Complication: The Race to Build the World's Most Legendary Watch
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The Henry Graves Jr. Patek Philippe Supercomplication (auction catalog)
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The Henry Graves Jr. Patek Philippe Supercomplication (auction catalog)
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for a record-breaking $ 11,002,500 to an anonymous bidder in
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The Supercomplication features the following 24 functions.
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After that, the watch was displayed in the Time Museum in
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The new owner was later revealed to be a member of the
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Index

Patek Philippe
pocket watches
complications
Patek Philippe
Henry Graves Jr.
James Ward Packard
publicity stunt
Calibre 89
Leroy 01
Breguet
No. 160 "Marie Antoinette"
celestial map
834
Fifth Avenue
Patek Philippe Calibre 89
Swiss francs
US$
Lindbergh kidnapping
most expensive watch ever sold at auction
CHF
Geneva
Christie's
Henry Graves Jr.
Seth G. Atwood
Time Museum
Rockford, Illinois
Museum of Science and Industry
Sotheby's
New York City
Patek Philippe Museum

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