OT: How to make the worlds most expensive watch, 2.6 million

[Bill Dufour]

Very Off Topic; 2.6 million US dollars each. I hope it comes in a nice wooden box. looks ugly to me.
Bill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1L15xehfEA

http://www.cnbc.com/2014/10/14/patek...26m-watch.html

http://watchesbysjx.com/wp-content/u...76_RVB_300.jpg

[Larry Anderson]

Oh my Lord! How is it possible to manufacture al those minuscule parts? And the engineering and design is amazing.

[Brian Henderson]

Ugly and ridiculously impractical. How are you supposed to flip over the watch face while wearing it? It's for people with way more money than sense.

[John K Jordan]

Oh my Lord! How is it possible to manufacture al those minuscule parts? And the engineering and design is amazing.

Watchmakers have been doing it for a LONG time! I visited a friend in Scotland who repaired clocks and watches. His lathes, for example were tiny and very precise. He said he could make any part in the smallest watch - shafts, gears (wheels) springs, etc., things I could barely see. Amazing.

For a larger scale, I've been enjoying this guy's series of videos about building a clock from scratch, the first three:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8Y146v8HxE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoDkoioiR6w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXzyCM23WPI

etc.

I was intrigued to see in one video he was using basically the same inexpensive metal-cutting lathe I use. What is especially fascinating is how he makes many special attachments for operations otherwise difficult or impossible with the basic machine tools.

JKJ

[Bill Dufour]

Or try to figure out the ancient Greek clock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML4tw_UzqZE

[Leo Graywacz]

And it doesn't even have a sweeping second hand......

[Chris Parks]

Clickspring (the links above) has to be one of the best series on YouTube and for a bloke who has no formal training as a machinist he does some nice work. He walked into a hardware shop one day, saw a lathe and decided it might be interesting to give it a go and see what he could make. His video skills were learned the same way and could be used in a doco on the project they are so good. I commend it to anyone who admires fine craftsmanship with no fluff as a lot of presenters do.

[Wade Lippman]

If someone gave you the watch on the conditions that you had to regularly wear it and couldn't sell it, would you take it?

I sure wouldn't. Even if I wore a watch (which I don't; a cell phone works great and there are clocks everywhere) why would you want a clock on your wrist?

[Greg Peterson]

Ticking g away the moments that make up a dull day...

[Jerry Thompson]

I read in the comments section, "An hour glass has more moving parts."

[dennis thompson]

I'm pretty happen with my new Timex ($32), you could buy 81,000 Timex watches for the $2.6 million