A Grand Complication from Audemars Piguet

So I just finished Stacy Perman's A Grand Complication.  It is essentially the story of two men who competed (albeit surreptitiously) with each other to imagine and own the world's most complicated watch.

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Patek Philippe was their preferred supper, but I thought in light of "competition", why not look at some other examples?



Like this - the Tradition Grande Complication from Audemars Piguet.

A perpetual calendar, with all of the usual suspects, plus moon phase and a minute repeater.  For those of you wanting to know all of the details, here they are straight from Audemars Piguet -

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SPECIFICITIES

• Grande Complication movement
• Column wheel Chronograph mechanism
• Repeater's two gongs are both on the same plane
• Oscillating weight with ceramic ball bearings
• Moonphase made with Physical Vapor Deposited metal onto sapphire
• Oscillating weight can be custom decorated upon customer's request
• Manual finishing of the cut out parts (polished bevels, grained finishing on top and Matt "brouillé" finishing underneath)
• Manual finishing of the bridges (curved polished bevels, satinbrushed edges, Perlage on the recesses)
• Perpetual calendar / Date / Day / Month / Leap year / Moonphases / Number of the week
• Split time chronograph / Seconds and split seconds counter / Minutes counter
• Minute repeater on two gongs

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