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The Vacheron Constantin Reference 57260
The world’s most complicated watch.
“57 complications. 2,826 individual components, 242 jewels, 957 grams, 10 patents, 31 hands, 85 different prototypes, 16 kg of drawings, eight years, one client, untold millions”
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Complications:
Time measurement (6 functions)
Hours, minutes, seconds, average solar time (regulator)
Three-shaft tourbillon
Tourbillon regulator with spherical balance spring
12-hour time zone, second hours and minutes time zone
24-city display for each time zone
Day/night indication for 12-hour time zone
Perpetual calendar (7 functions)
Gregorian perpetual calendar
Gregorian day name
Gregorian month name
Gregorian retrograde date
Leap year and four-year cycle display
Number of the day of the week (ISO 8601 calendar)
Week to view (ISO 8601 calendar)
Hebrew calendar (8 functions)
Hebrew perpetual calendar and 19-year cycle
Hebrew day number
Hebrew month name
Hebrew date
Hebrew secular calendar
Hebrew century, decade and year
Age of Hebrew year (12 or 13 months)
Golden number (19 years)
Astrological calendar (9 functions)
Seasons, equinoxes, solstices and signs of the Zodiac indicated by the hand on the sun
Star chart (for the owner's city)
Sidereal time hours
Sidereal time minutes
Equation of time
Sunrise times (for the owner's city)
Sunset times (for the owner's city)
Length of day (for the owner's city)
Length of night (for the owner's city)
Lunar calendar (1 function)
Moon phases and age (one correction every 1,027 years)
Religious calendar (1 function)
3-column wheel chronograph (4 functions)
Retrograde seconds chronograph (one column wheel)
Retrograde split-seconds chronograph (one column wheel)
Hours counter (one column wheel)
Minutes counter
Alarm (7 functions)
Alarm with its own gong and gradual striking
Alarm strike / silence indicator
Choice of normal alarm or carillon striking alarm indicator
Alarm mechanism coupled to the carillon striking mechanism
Alarm striking with choice of Grande or Petite Sonnerie
Alarm power-reserve indication
System to disengage the striking mechanism when alarm barrel fully unwound
Westminster carillon striking (8 functions)
Westminster carillon chiming with 5 gongs and 5 hammers
Grande Sonnerie passing strike
Petite Sonnerie passing strike
Minute repeating
Night silence feature (10 p.m. to 8 a.m.)
System to disengage the striking barrel when fully wound
Indication for Grande or Petite Sonnerie modes
Indication for silence / striking / night mode
Others (6 functions)
Movement power reserve indicator
Power-reserve indication for the striking train
Winding crown position indicator
Dual barrel winding system
Time setting in two positions and two directions
Secret mechanism (opening of the button for alarm arbor)
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The world’s most complicated watch.
“57 complications. 2,826 individual components, 242 jewels, 957 grams, 10 patents, 31 hands, 85 different prototypes, 16 kg of drawings, eight years, one client, untold millions”
LOW TIME PREFERENCE WATCHMAKING
Complications:
Time measurement (6 functions)
Hours, minutes, seconds, average solar time (regulator)
Three-shaft tourbillon
Tourbillon regulator with spherical balance spring
12-hour time zone, second hours and minutes time zone
24-city display for each time zone
Day/night indication for 12-hour time zone
Perpetual calendar (7 functions)
Gregorian perpetual calendar
Gregorian day name
Gregorian month name
Gregorian retrograde date
Leap year and four-year cycle display
Number of the day of the week (ISO 8601 calendar)
Week to view (ISO 8601 calendar)
Hebrew calendar (8 functions)
Hebrew perpetual calendar and 19-year cycle
Hebrew day number
Hebrew month name
Hebrew date
Hebrew secular calendar
Hebrew century, decade and year
Age of Hebrew year (12 or 13 months)
Golden number (19 years)
Astrological calendar (9 functions)
Seasons, equinoxes, solstices and signs of the Zodiac indicated by the hand on the sun
Star chart (for the owner's city)
Sidereal time hours
Sidereal time minutes
Equation of time
Sunrise times (for the owner's city)
Sunset times (for the owner's city)
Length of day (for the owner's city)
Length of night (for the owner's city)
Lunar calendar (1 function)
Moon phases and age (one correction every 1,027 years)
Religious calendar (1 function)
3-column wheel chronograph (4 functions)
Retrograde seconds chronograph (one column wheel)
Retrograde split-seconds chronograph (one column wheel)
Hours counter (one column wheel)
Minutes counter
Alarm (7 functions)
Alarm with its own gong and gradual striking
Alarm strike / silence indicator
Choice of normal alarm or carillon striking alarm indicator
Alarm mechanism coupled to the carillon striking mechanism
Alarm striking with choice of Grande or Petite Sonnerie
Alarm power-reserve indication
System to disengage the striking mechanism when alarm barrel fully unwound
Westminster carillon striking (8 functions)
Westminster carillon chiming with 5 gongs and 5 hammers
Grande Sonnerie passing strike
Petite Sonnerie passing strike
Minute repeating
Night silence feature (10 p.m. to 8 a.m.)
System to disengage the striking barrel when fully wound
Indication for Grande or Petite Sonnerie modes
Indication for silence / striking / night mode
Others (6 functions)
Movement power reserve indicator
Power-reserve indication for the striking train
Winding crown position indicator
Dual barrel winding system
Time setting in two positions and two directions
Secret mechanism (opening of the button for alarm arbor)
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