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  2. Reference 57260 - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] [3] The watch was assembled by Vacheron Constantin and introduced in 2015. The company announced that it was the most complicated mechanical pocket watch ever created at the time, succeeding the Patek Philippe Calibre 89, assembled in 1989 and featuring 33 complications. [4] The Reference 57260 took eight years to assemble.

  3. Pocket watch - Wikipedia

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    With this, a domestic watch could keep time to within a minute a day. Lever watches became common after about 1820, and this type is still used in most mechanical watches. In 1857 the American Watch Company in Waltham, Massachusetts, introduced the Waltham Model 57, the first to use interchangeable parts. This cut the cost of manufacture and ...

  4. Complication (horology) - Wikipedia

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    The company claims that it is the most complicated mechanical pocket watch ever created. The Reference 57260 took eight years to assemble, and has 2826 parts and 31 hands. It weighs 957 g (2.11 lb), and spans 98 millimetres (3.9 in).

  5. Patek Philippe Henry Graves Supercomplication - Wikipedia

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    On 10 July 2014, Sotheby's announced that in November 2014, the pocket watch would once again be auctioned. [21] On 11 November 2014, the watch was sold in Geneva, Switzerland. The final price, bid by Aurel Bacs serving as proxy for an anonymous entity, reached 23,237,000 Swiss francs, equivalent to US$24 million at the time.

  6. Vacheron Constantin - Wikipedia

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    In 2015, during the manufacturer's 260th anniversary, Vacheron Constantin revealed the world's most complicated mechanical watch, named Reference 57260. The pocket watch took three watchmakers eight years to build the 57-complication pocket watch at the request of a client. Vacheron Constantin would not disclose the exact price of this watch ...

  7. Gallet & Company - Wikipedia

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    Gallet's finest pocket watches, hand-built in the classic Swiss tradition and retaining the family flagship and Electa names, were always available. Although not initially successful, included with the company's American offerings in 1895 were the world's first wrist-worn watches produced for mass consumption.

  8. Movement (clockwork) - Wikipedia

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    The term originated with mechanical timepieces, whose clockwork movements are made of many moving parts. The movement of a digital watch is more commonly known as a module . In modern mass-produced clocks and watches, the same movement is often inserted into many different styles of case.

  9. Wheel train - Wikipedia

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    Pocket watch with gears labelled. The going train is the main gear train of the timepiece. It consists of the wheels that transmit the force of the timepiece's power source, the mainspring or weight, to the escapement to drive the pendulum or balance wheel. [4] The going train has two functions.