World's Most Expensive Wrist Watch.

 

Brand: Patek Philippe Sky Moon Tourbillon

Price: $ 1.49 million/ 1,06 million EUR

Brief Description: This watch became the most expensive wrist watch to be sold at auction in Hong Kong on                                  April 10, 2008.

 

Why it is expensive? Because,

• Platinum Plated elegant our fit
• Most complicated watch ever made by Swiss Watchmakers
• Double-face wrist watch
• 686 very small internal parts for smoother iteration
• Chime with two alloy "cathedral gongs"
• It incoporates twelve complications: perpetual calendar with retrograde date, week day, month, leap year cycle, age of the moon, minute repeater, tourbillon, map of the sky, sidereal time, angular movement of the moon and phases of the moon.
• The mechanical modulus of the astronomic indications displayed on the back of the watch with the nocturnal sky map is protected by Swiss patent CH 688 171 B5.
• The Platinum case measures 42.8mm
• It spent 3 years in research and development to achieve 10 days of power reserve and a manual-wind tourbillon with COSC-certified chronometer.
• It uses a 2 mainspring barrel and a tourbillon escapement in rectangular movement.
• The transparent caseback reveals the intrinsic tourbillon bridge and tourbillon cage what wraps the Gyromax balance wheel.

 

 

 

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