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Vacheron Constantin has produced the most complicated mechanical watch ever. It has a total of 57 complications. The watch itself is huge and is in the form of a pocket watch. It took eight years to make and it is an absolute beauty. Loan for watches Boca Raton.
In order to understand just how amazing this is, first you must understand what complications are. A complication is something that the watch does. For example, one complication is telling the time, another is showing the date, another could be showing which day of the year it is, etc. To have 57 different complications all working in harmony on one time piece is astonishing.
The 57260, as the watch is called, is named after the 57 complications it has and the 260th anniversary of the company. The nickname for the watch is Tivoli which is much easier to say and understand.
Here is a list of every single complication. The hours and minutes that spin on separate axis is the most obvious (1). The tourbillion movement (2) and the spherical balance spring and escapement (3) help the watch run. Small gold hands show a second time zone (4). There is also a world time indicator (5) and an AM/PM indicator (6).
The watch houses three calendar systems. First is the classic perpetual calendar (7). It has a display for the date (8), day of the week (9), month (10), and year (11). There are two more indicators that show the number of day of the week (12) and number of week in the year (13).
The second calendar is the Hebrew perpetual calendar (14). It shows the Hebrew day (15), Hebrew name of the month (16), date (17), secular calendar (18), year (19), whether the year has 12 or 13 months (20), where in the 19 year lunar cycle the year is (21), and the date of Yom-Kippur (22).
The third calendar is astronomical. It shows the phases and age of the moon (23), tracks the Zodiac (24), has a rotating sky chart (25), shows hours and minutes for sidereal time (26 and 27), and equation that shows the difference between sidereal and solar time (28). It shows what time the sun will rise (29) and what time it will go down (30). It will also tell you how long the day (31) or how long the night (32) will be.
Most complicated watches always feature a chronograph and the Tivoli is no different. The chronograph has two second hands that time within one-fifth of a second (33 and 34). There is a 60 minute counter (35) and 12-hour counter (36).
Finally, there is a minute repeater of course. There is a single gong and hammer alarm (37) and a strike silence indicator (38). There is an alarm specific power reserve indicator (39) and a system in place to make sure it’s not over-wound (40). You can also choose to have the chime be loud or soft (41).
If you want to know what time it is now, you can ask the watch to do gong and hammer that as well (42). As time goes on you can set it to automatically sing you the time on the hours and quarter hours (43) or just the quarter hours (44). You can also activate the minute repeater on command (45). You can silence the timepiece at night (46) between 10 pm and 8 am. Two independent indicators also let you choose the chiming mode and silencing mode feature (47 and 48). The alarm is also linked to the carillon system (49) so you can choose to set it to the carillon chimes which has its own indicator as well (50).
There is a power reserve indicator for the main time (51), another power reserve for the carillon striking system (52), a lock to stop the striking (53), a special winding system to power everything (54), and indicator that shows you what you are actually winding or setting (55), a multi-position setting system for aligning the hands (56), and a concealed winding crown for just the alarm (57).
