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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-1...ece-price.html

The Patek Philippe Supercomplication pocket watch sold for 23.2 million Swiss francs ($24 million) at Sotheby’s in Geneva, setting the new record price for any timepiece sold at auction. It has held the record since 1999 when it last sold at Sotheby’s for $11 million.

“The Swiss masterpieces of watchmaking are now considered by investors and collectors as real pieces of art, like paintings or sculptures,” Jean-Claude Biver, director of timepieces for Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy, said before the sale.

Hailed as the world’s most complicated watch made entirely by hand, the Supercomplication was at the center of a battle between two watch collectors who tried to outdo one another other in the 1920s and 1930s. The watch’s 24 functions include playing the melody of the Westminster chimes and displaying the night sky over New York’s Central Park. It has 920 components, comes in at over 1.5 inches thick, and weighs more than one pound. The original watchmaker even made a note to point out that the Tiffany bag it was shipped in was a bit too tight and could accidentally activate the buttons.

Henry Graves Jr., a New York banker, ordered the Supercomplication in 1925, aiming to surpass James Ward Packard, an Ohio-based auto manufacturer who had been buying complicated pieces from Patek Philippe for years. Graves paid $15,000 for the watch, which was delivered in 1933, and it is often credited with keeping the Swiss watchmaker in business during the Great Depression.

alexey174174

Вообще-то выпускают наручные часы, которые и без всяких аукционов стоят гораздо больше, см.
http://www.euromag.ru/made_in_eu/36617.html

Не соглашусь, дело в том, что там в цене есть стоимость драгоценных камней и она превалирующая. Поэтому я тоже считаю самыми дорогими часами в мире те, что указал ув. alexey174174

это не часы:)

у меня восток есть старый. стоит стопецот ахулиардов. самый дорогой на планете, истинно говорю!!!

да ладно)))

А их кто-то за такие деньги купил? Ценник можно любой нарисовать.

Без понятия. Но вроде они продавались в Дубаи http://whatson.ae/dubai/knowledge/11...sale-in-dubai/

Ценник действительно можно нарисовать любой, но вроде как часовая мастерская Graff не чувствует себя обделённой. Гляньте на их коллекцию, особенно на часики типа Serpentine или Diamond Swan Watch http://www.graffdiamonds.com/#/watch...ellery-watches
И, кстати, можно запросить на них ценник, я думаю он будет нехилый.

P.S. А вообще любопытно, как и где можно поменять батарейку в этих кварцевых "часиках", чтобьы не трястись за себя и за это украшение.

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А как на счет:

PATEK PHILIPPE
THE HENRY GRAVES JR. SUPERCOMPLICATION PATEK PHILIPPE & CO., GENEVA, NO. 198.385, CASE NO. 416.769, STARTED IN 1925, COMPLETED IN 1932 AND DELIVERED ON 19TH JANUARY 1933

Estimate Estimate Upon Request

LOT SOLD. 23,237,000 CHF


A gold, double dialled and double open-faced, minute repeating clockwatch with Westminster chimes, 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 night time sky of New York City at 40 degrees 41.0 minutes North latitude
Accompanied by the original fitted tulipwood box inlaid with ebony and centered by a mother-of-pearl panel engraved with the arms of Henry Graves, Jr. Also accompanied by the Patek Philippe Certificate of Origin and an Extract from the Archives of Patek Philippe.