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What is the point of wearing a complicated watch?

2020-11-16T07:34:16.208Z


Complex timepieces express both the breadth of watchmaking expertise and the emotion of displaying the passage of time.


Why make it simple when you can make it complicated?

This should be the motto of many watchmakers, given their search for complexity in the infinitely small.

But what good is this quest worthy of Sisyphus?

It is indeed rare that a complex watch, or even what is called a complication, is used by the person who wears it on a daily basis.

“Apart from perhaps the date, it has no real practical use,

recognizes Alexandre Ghotbi, head of the watch department of the Phillips auction house.

Nevertheless, it is a tribute to human genius, craftsmanship and beauty, to the hundreds of hours spent by a master watchmaker working on wheels, pinions and components.

Having a complication keeps this precious know-how alive. ”

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But what do we call that?

It is above all an additional function in addition to the hour, minute or second indication.

"What begins with the date, then the complete calendars with

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Source: lefigaro

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