[servo1969]

Skip to 5:25 to see it being assembled.

[Hoodat]

In Beijing, that watch costs $75.

[RegulatorCountry]

The concealed clockwork components were much more beautiful than the finished product to me. All that filigree, it’s too much. But then I’m not the target market for a $2.6 million dollar wristwatch.

[ansel12]

That was impressive, but I would only skip the first minute or two.

It becomes quite exquisite as it progresses.

[Paleo Conservative]

You should see the Patek Philippe showroom in Geneva! The whole store is a safe.

[kvanbrunt2]

you never really own a Patek Philippe. You merely take care of it for the next generation.

[T. Rustin Noone]

Thanks for the post. I loved watching the timepiece being assembled, although like others I have no desire for anything resembling that much bling on my wrist.

My younger brother was living in San Francisco when he and his $5,000 Patek Phillipe parted company at the insistence of someone with a $50 handgun. I have never seen him wear anything more lavish than a Swatch since.

[Vendome]

Almost made me chuck the Omega I’m wearing.

Incredible and gorgeous.

20 complications and 1300+ parts.

Amazing.

My Jaeger Le Coultre is puny compared to that and embarrassing. ....

LOL

Not really but, I don’t have 2.5 million for a watch but....if I did...that is epic...

[867V309]

[Oshkalaboomboom]

I wonder how many they plan on making and selling.

[real saxophonist]

I’ll stick with my G-Shocks. I do have a couple of ‘dress-up’ watches, a Citizen Blue Angels Skyhawk and a Movado Museum Watch.

[Chainmail]

Gotta have something that the ultra-rich can spend their money. Otherwise, what’s the point?

[loungitude]

Great video. Fascinating.
Years ago, my former boss had a tour of the Audemars Piquet watch shop. A craftsman was showing him a ($20,000 or so) watch that he was working on. So my friend turned it over to see the face and all of the parts fell out onto the floor. That was the end of the tour.

[Larry Lucido]

I’m reading Free Republic on my “watch.” I can watch movies on it too.

And it set itself back an hour while I slept.

[SamAdams76]

Maybe it's a function of my age but I don't get the appeal of a wristwatch. I am surrounded with devices that tell me the time. My laptop, my smartphone, the digital readout in my car, on my TV cable box, etc. And they update automatically, as they all did this morning when we switched back from DST.

Wristwatches, with all their moving parts, the necessity to wind them up and set them forward or backwards when you change time zones, seems like too much trouble to me. Especially as "smart watches" - that connect with and supplement the functionality of your smartphone - appear to be ready to take off.

I can appreciate the craftsmanship that goes into constructing a watch. All those tiny gears and springs fascinate me. But old technology that is not digital. Everything these days is going digital.

Finally, some of the prices are astronomical. Are they really worth it? In my younger days, I had a Timex watch from Sears & Roebuck that cost me about $30 and it lasted me years. Then about 15 years ago, my wife bought me one of the more expensive ones that cost about $500. Nobody really noticed that I had a more expensive watch. I could have just gone on wearing the Timex.

Seriously, if I was to buy a $5,000 watch and wear it to work, nobody would really notice it. It's not like when a woman buys a $5,000 necklace and all the other women are swooning over it. People don't pay much attention to what us men wear. I could walk into a boardroom with a Timex or a Rolex and nobody will say a thing either way. But if I walk in there with the latest and greatest electronic gadget, well that will get people's attention. Everybody will want to check it out and play with it.