It really is a thing of beauty.

[pplpilot]

Ive been following the story of this the last few days.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-30002096

Putting aside the vulgar amount of money someone has paid for it you have to admire the amout of work and that went into making it.

http://www.sothebys.com/en/news-video/videos/2014/09/henry-graves-watch-ge1404.html

http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2014/important-watches-ge1404/lot.345.html

As an Engineer id like to think I have an appreciation of the mechanicals involved, but somehow i just feel it would be way beyond me ...

Fascinating.

 

[Drago]

I rather hope my missus paid less than that for the Patek Phillipe she bought me for my 40th birthday!

 

[phil_hg_uk]

It is beautiful but I prefer my Casio G shock for when it comes to practicality.

 

[Nitram55]

Wow just wow

 

[young Ed]

It is beautiful but I prefer my Casio G shock for when it comes to practicality.

nah my pocket watch is beautiful and practical
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/201061211801?_trksid=p2059210.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT
the silver one

i find with the wrist watches the can end up rubbing on my skin and effectively chaffing regardless of the strap material but also when you do an everyday task such as dropping a shipping pallet on it or crushing it somewhere or knocking it rather hard against a tractor wing the glass ends up very scratched and/or smashed (i have destroyed wrist watches in all the listed ways and more )
also a pocket watch just makes you more 'dapper'!
Cheers Ed)

 

[vernon]

nah my pocket watch is beautiful and practical
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/201061211801?_trksid=p2059210.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDXT
the silver one

also a pocket watch just makes you more 'dapper'!
Cheers Ed)

A quartz pocket watch is more crapper, less dapper.

 

[vernon]

I rather hope my missus paid less than that for the Patek Phillipe she bought me for my 40th birthday!

Depends if it was a genuine fake watch or not.

 

[Piemaster]

i find with the wrist watches the can end up rubbing on my skin and effectively chaffing regardless of the strap material but also when you do an everyday task such as dropping a shipping pallet on it or crushing it somewhere or knocking it rather hard against a tractor wing the glass ends up very scratched and/or smashed (i have destroyed wrist watches in all the listed ways and more )
also a pocket watch just makes you more 'dapper'!
Cheers Ed)

I've wrecked watches at work, but dropping a pallet on a wristwatch how was the arm? And thats an everyday thing, are you Chuck Norris?

(Hang on, you can't be Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris doesn't have a watch, he decides what time it is.

 

[winjim]

The iPhone of its day.

 

[TheDoctor]

Was there ever a better reason to do something than 'Because we can'?

 

[Accy cyclist]

Very nice indeed but "the most important watch in the world"?

 

[AndyRM]

That is a thing of great skill and beauty.

 

[EltonFrog]

What stunning thing. I wonder if the new owner will wear to go down to Tesco for a pint of milk and a kitkat.

 

[Cycleops]

What stunning thing. I wonder if the new owner will wear to go down to Tesco for a pint of milk and a kitkat.

More like for a wedge of Swiss cheese and a Toblerone.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

£13.4 million and you don't even get a strap - what's the world coming to.