Omni - I am not from a america. You do not seem to understand the fact that is cheap and do it better at the same time, is what make it to art. I would say something that do something better for 5 dollar than something do for 5 million dollar is worth to be more admire, something that take far lesser time to produce so more people can enjoy it is worth to be more admire. Machine that helps with massprodcuing is hardly anything that has always existed, they have been much harder for mankind to make from the beginning than advcanced hand made stuff, but just because they are common now and lower the cost of the end product do not make them any lesser of a masterpice, it is the opposite, that is a big part of why they are a masterpice, they have revolutionize the world and make so more people can afford with it, that is a true masterpice. Automatic is just outdated tech that cost more but do lesser. It should really be thrown in the garbage. It do not ad anything. I see this admiration for time putting it to it, when the end result is not better as stupid. It is just a way of people to think they are deph, when they are the opposite, they are as shallow as you can get. Btw, no matter if it is art or not, if you buy it, you buy it to have it as a statussymbol.
If you where stranded on a island, 1 guy build a speedboat with his tools in 5 min, 1 guy build a wodden raft with his tools in 2 years. Lets see what you think is the art then. You admire the wodden raft, I admire the speedboat, or the tools that made it happen.
omni- Maybe you should look into how you express yourself before you call people stupid and retarded. I already explain why I think the way I do, if you think i am wrong in anything, explain in a more intelligent way when i am wrong, then just calling me stupid and retarted, because you only show what you are with doing so. The 5 dollar watch can last for many years and keep track on time just as good if not better.
I have a GUB Glashütte worth 50 bucks at best but it was my grandfather's and god willing it will one day be my grandsons. Watchmaking is a great craft but especially now when your phone tells the time better than any watch, the personal stories behind the watches make everything all the more amazing.
yeah I seen basically just decorated cta 6498 caliber for 999 usd on etsy. Anything that actually hand made they want like 50k or more. Sad cause the price they are asking seems to be the one thing that kill a small hand made watch business. Also atomic watch won't due. How can know someone isn't controlling time? Not that you could with pure mechanic, could be some kind of piezio electric balance spring that change it's spring coefficient to speed up slow down.
The thinking, the design, the craftsmanship, the care, the perfection! All together to create a beautiful piece of history and dedication, all in one hand made mechanical timepiece, such beauty!
Enthusiasts of fine watches will always be interested in acquiring such amazing creations, especially bespoke timepieces such as this. To a true connoisseur, who is extraordinarily successful, the price is no object at all.
It's a beautiful thing that humans are capable of when we don't dwell in what separates us, but e come together to create things that make the world a better place.
I went to the patek phillipe museum today. Had the honor of seeing calibre 89 with my own eyes and talk to one of the master watch makers that mantains this watch. its a true masterpiece. As an electricien i will have to stick to my seiko kinetic. It nice be able to drewl over all these master pieces. Avisit is highly recommended.
The title says $26 million, but the description says $6 million. The timeframes in the description do not match the timeframes in the video. The video covers virtually nothing about the watch other than it was complicated.
Given the state of the world and technology trends, compared with old-world, time-honored craftsmanship and dedication to extremely minute detail, it is doubtful fine creations like this will ever be equalled, let alone surpassed. Bravo, Monsieur Paul Buclin!
i remember when it was presented to the world, and never forgot it, it was before internet and it videos era, glad to see it in video and it's still The Masterpiece, so many time after it conception.
Art is such a beautiful thing, so Is mechanics, so to be able to combine both in a single object is truely amazing, so whether you understand it or not, be glad that you can admire it
Two things I cannot comprehend are people who love complicated watches, and people who love to climb mountains, but I am very glad that people love complicated watches.
An incredible achievement. Especially considering that CAD/CAM was in its infancy back then. Now I believe computers could lead the way to even more complications
You could have bought $3 million worth of EMC in 1989 and sold it for $3.9 billion in 1999. Then you could have purchased the entire Patek Phillipe company.
The amount of hard work and dedication that can be put into by a mere human being into creating something so astonishingly beautiful and exquisitely impeccable should be an inspiration for all the rest of us mankind. That watchmaker didn't shave till his masterpiece was completely accurate. Now that's called dedication!! I feel 26 million dollars is too small a price to be put for such a work of timeless art. This is something created for eternity and will forever embody the tireless spirit of dedication and relentless pursuit of perfection by its makers, long after they are dead and buried. Exceptional is an understatement to describe it all.
I love watches and I appreciate the craftsmanship of these master watchmaker and I don't have a problem with the price, I won't be paying it from my pocket, but what exactly is the point of this watch? you can not wear it in your wrist or have it on wall or sitting on a table....
It is a shame that the craft of mechanic watchmaking is more and more pushed out of the market by digital models. It is just magnificsnt to see the mechanisms behind these watches
Wouldn't you have to have it taken apart and cleaned every few years? Since it would spend a lot of time in the shop, I'm thinking I'm going to have to order more than one.
How I wish I possessed the talent, skill and patience in creating such a wonderful piece of mechanical art! Out of thousands of watchmakers, only Paul Buclin could accomplish the seemingly impossible!
I like the way the chairman says he has to learn quickly about watches. Just goes to show what defines the top man in an organisation is not expertise. I don't know what it is though, if it isn't that...
at the beginning of the video 0:08, doesn't the hand on the left appear to be touching the face? Wow, for that amount of $ I would think that should not be happening!
What I understood was Mr. Phillipe wanted more money so he asked "who can make me more money and I will give them a slightly bigger pay cheque?" So the bold guy with the white beard said "I will! I want more money" So he did and Mr. Philipe became a lot richer. Then he died. Then others who wanted to become rich did the same thing and so on. This is what every business does. Thank you. The end.
that's the most complicated wristwatch, the most complicated watch is the 'Vacheron Constantin Reference 57260'. a pocketwatch with 57 complications from 2015.
Reminds me of watching the movie about how Alan Turing invented the computer at Bletchley Park to decode the German WW2 Enigma codes, the computer was an analogue affair. Nowadays my Samsung S10 and Iphone 7 will do all that this old Patek can do with much greater accuracy, the fact is as time goes on these time pieces will lose massive amounts of value and only the watch museums will be interested, sad but true, young people don't have any interest nowadays
It's a watch Your missing context. We don't say wrist clock? despite fitting in with your copy and paste definition In English, we use "watch" for a time piece we move around (wrist watch\pocket watch) For a clock for a stationary time piece ( wall clock \ bedside clock)
So, how often does it need servicing... every 5 years? I’m thinking, wow, that’ll cost a bundle to have PP service. But then again, if I can pay $26M for a watch servicing would not be a concern haha.
Even more complicated is the apple watch with over 500 million micro transistors, 70 million leds and diodes, hundreds of microscopic resistors and capacitors capable of over 3000 actual functions, yet water resistant dust resistant , rechargeable lasts a lifetime and yet less than $1000. You are just paying so that a bunch of rich dudes could get more rich.
The irony is that the most sophisticated watch in the world is a 99 cent dollar store watch because the integrated circuit used in the watch contains millions of transistors! not to mention other components.
a person who would buy this probably owns a billion dollar yacht bro, 26 mil is nothing for the ultra rich, buying this would be like you buying a casio watch
This watch is only for old billionaire men that had dozens of watches and understand watch mechanics and like them for real ! Only these should have not only this but any PP
excessive wealth and vanity of the populace has created this modern watch industry. excessive wealth came from a massive difference between rich and poor.
A $20.00 Atomic Clock constantly regulated with a radio signal from the NBS never gets out more than a few thousandths of a second. This 26 million dollar Rube Goldberg contraption can't even come close to that. Does Patek Philippe charge 1/2 of the purchase price to service it every two years? david
Can Atomic Clock show date, time, position of starts, Easters, play chimes and all of that alone? Without power plant providing energy? Without computer counting all of those events? After atomic explosion? Nobody says is practical, but this is art/craft, not just a tool.
this timepiece is an excellent example of the outstanding ability that lies within humans as a functional species.
Great post, Pinned to the top
greatness breeds greatness! This video is simply brilliant, thank you +Swiss6Made.
Omni - I am not from a america.
You do not seem to understand the fact that is cheap and do it better at the same time, is what make it to art.
I would say something that do something better for 5 dollar than something do for 5 million dollar is worth to be more admire, something that take far lesser time to produce so more people can enjoy it is worth to be more admire.
Machine that helps with massprodcuing is hardly anything that has always existed, they have been much harder for mankind to make from the beginning than advcanced hand made stuff, but just because they are common now and lower the cost of the end product do not make them any lesser of a masterpice, it is the opposite, that is a big part of why they are a masterpice, they have revolutionize the world and make so more people can afford with it, that is a true masterpice.
Automatic is just outdated tech that cost more but do lesser. It should really be thrown in the garbage. It do not ad anything.
I see this admiration for time putting it to it, when the end result is not better as stupid. It is just a way of people to think they are deph, when they are the opposite, they are as shallow as you can get.
Btw, no matter if it is art or not, if you buy it, you buy it to have it as a statussymbol.
If you where stranded on a island, 1 guy build a speedboat with his tools in 5 min, 1 guy build a wodden raft with his tools in 2 years. Lets see what you think is the art then.
You admire the wodden raft, I admire the speedboat, or the tools that made it happen.
omni- Maybe you should look into how you express yourself before you call people stupid and retarded.
I already explain why I think the way I do, if you think i am wrong in anything, explain in a more intelligent way when i am wrong, then just calling me stupid and retarted, because you only show what you are with doing so.
The 5 dollar watch can last for many years and keep track on time just as good if not better.
No money can bring back the joy I felt when my parents bought me a $19 Casio. That had a calculator and everything.
lots of complications there😀
hahahah i love you. you made my day.
My first watch was a timex. XD
How about 19 dollars for the same casio?
I have a GUB Glashütte worth 50 bucks at best but it was my grandfather's and god willing it will one day be my grandsons. Watchmaking is a great craft but especially now when your phone tells the time better than any watch, the personal stories behind the watches make everything all the more amazing.
I just cannot believe the talent, craftsmanship and dedication of the master watchmakers. speechless!!
The watch is a piece of junk, I'd rather george daniels space traveler, which is relatively useful, work out longitude from a pocket watch.
yeah I seen basically just decorated cta 6498 caliber for 999 usd on etsy. Anything that actually hand made they want like 50k or more. Sad cause the price they are asking seems to be the one thing that kill a small hand made watch business. Also atomic watch won't due. How can know someone isn't controlling time? Not that you could with pure mechanic, could be some kind of piezio electric balance spring that change it's spring coefficient to speed up slow down.
The thinking, the design, the craftsmanship, the care, the perfection! All together to create a beautiful piece of history and dedication, all in one hand made mechanical timepiece, such beauty!
They made 4 or 5 they said? I am sure they sold them.
I bet you that 3 of them are in hands of some crazy arab, and the others probably sitting in the office of a chinese ceo.
Enthusiasts of fine watches will always be interested in acquiring such amazing creations, especially bespoke timepieces such as this. To a true connoisseur, who is extraordinarily successful, the price is no object at all.
This actually brought tears to my eyes.
It's a beautiful thing that humans are capable of when we don't dwell in what separates us, but e come together to create things that make the world a better place.
I went to the patek phillipe museum today. Had the honor of seeing calibre 89 with my own eyes and talk to one of the master watch makers that mantains this watch. its a true masterpiece. As an electricien i will have to stick to my seiko kinetic. It nice be able to drewl over all these master pieces. Avisit is highly recommended.
The title says $26 million, but the description says $6 million. The timeframes in the description do not match the timeframes in the video. The video covers virtually nothing about the watch other than it was complicated.
This is like porn: you drool over beautiful things that never will be yours.
Amazing craftsmanship, dedication and talent, simply beyond words...
alex ?
Given the state of the world and technology trends, compared with old-world, time-honored craftsmanship and dedication to extremely minute detail, it is doubtful fine creations like this will ever be equalled, let alone surpassed. Bravo, Monsieur Paul Buclin!
Absolute work of genius
i remember when it was presented to the world, and never forgot it, it was before internet and it videos era, glad to see it in video and it's still The Masterpiece, so many time after it conception.
Che meraviglia della migliore Maison di tutti i tempi,un capolavoro di Patek Philippe.
My wife says that I am a very complicated person. Much much more complicated than this watch...I must be worth a billion.
hahahahahaha
Pinned 😁
Yeah ya know......
You are, my friend.
Me lecturer said that I have very complicated signature, does it worth a billion? 😄
Art is such a beautiful thing, so Is mechanics, so to be able to combine both in a single object is truely amazing, so whether you understand it or not, be glad that you can admire it
Two things I cannot comprehend are people who love complicated watches, and people who love to climb mountains, but I am very glad that people love complicated watches.
Vacheron Constantin's 57260 blows this away... of course it's been 30 years between them, and 84 years since the original Henry Graves version.
Wonderful creation ! Hats off Sir !
Overpriced. I would pay 20 million at most.
Magnifique pièce et magnifiques artisans. Quel talent !
This was uploaded in 2015... So I bet it is worth quite a bit more now
An incredible achievement. Especially considering that CAD/CAM was in its infancy back then. Now I believe computers could lead the way to even more complications
I dont anything about watches but is look so beauticful 😍
Nice beater watch
Hmm, I seem to recall that this watch cost like $3 million in 1989. Looks like it was a fine investment.
You could have bought $3 million worth of EMC in 1989 and sold it for $3.9 billion in 1999. Then you could have purchased the entire Patek Phillipe company.
Beauty at it's finest
How calm and patience one have to be? to be a master watchmaker.
It's fascinating to look at it.
Desde las islas Canarias. muchas gracias...Merci...extraordinario..fantastico.
Stunning. I saw the exhibit in NYC... unbelievable!!!!! And, I learned so much. Thank you Thank you Thank you!!!!!
Fabuleux !.
Christ that thing is huge!!
3:56 That clock will have his soul one day... I can tell his youth is all put into the timepiece.
The amount of hard work and dedication that can be put into by a mere human being into creating something so astonishingly beautiful and exquisitely impeccable should be an inspiration for all the rest of us mankind. That watchmaker didn't shave till his masterpiece was completely accurate. Now that's called dedication!! I feel 26 million dollars is too small a price to be put for such a work of timeless art. This is something created for eternity and will forever embody the tireless spirit of dedication and relentless pursuit of perfection by its makers, long after they are dead and buried. Exceptional is an understatement to describe it all.
THAT BABY IS AN AWESOME EXTRA CRISPY BEAUTIFUL MASTERPIECE!!!
Basically, they have built the entire city inside that watch... Very impressive indeed.
I love watches and I appreciate the craftsmanship of these master watchmaker and I don't have a problem with the price, I won't be paying it from my pocket, but what exactly is the point of this watch? you can not wear it in your wrist or have it on wall or sitting on a table....
It is a shame that the craft of mechanic watchmaking is more and more pushed out of the market by digital models. It is just magnificsnt to see the mechanisms behind these watches
Paul Buclin sits next to another watchmaker for years building the fist 89 and can't mention his name? Wow! First class.
+That was a bit shallow.
He's lying that's why...
No shared glory for you!
Wouldn't you have to have it taken apart and cleaned every few years? Since it would spend a lot of time in the shop, I'm thinking I'm going to have to order more than one.
nice watch patek Phillipe
How I wish I possessed the talent, skill and patience in creating such a wonderful piece of mechanical art! Out of thousands of watchmakers, only Paul Buclin could accomplish the seemingly impossible!
Incroyable.
*check out my new 26mil watch guys, its awesome.. one sec let me go ahead and FETCH THE WHEELBARROW TO MOVE IT CLOSER HANG TIGHT*
I like the way the chairman says he has to learn quickly about watches. Just goes to show what defines the top man in an organisation is not expertise. I don't know what it is though, if it isn't that...
I own two of these. They're pretty cool.
You dih 'nt!
The Antikythera mechanism good for you Patek your starting to learn one day you will make one
Très joli travail bon courage à vous
Can you imagine how the old patek watchmakers made watches without todays technology amazing. Also automatons are amazing and complicated as well.
So does the Grand Master Chime wristwatch timepiece have more complications than this?
at the beginning of the video 0:08, doesn't the hand on the left appear to be touching the face? Wow, for that amount of $ I would think that should not be happening!
I truly respect the craftsmanship and the talent those people have, it is really extraordinary, but is it really worth that 26 million $?? 🤔
What I understood was Mr. Phillipe wanted more money so he asked "who can make me more money and I will give them a slightly bigger pay cheque?" So the bold guy with the white beard said "I will! I want more money" So he did and Mr. Philipe became a lot richer. Then he died. Then others who wanted to become rich did the same thing and so on. This is what every business does. Thank you. The end.
Art and fine craftmanship are difficult concepts to grasp when your people polish shoes for a living.
I need one of these to go with my $4.8 billion toaster oven.
It's a shame to think it's probably sitting in locked up in a vault somewhere never even wound up once.
legend says Its mechanics are so beyond our time, off the 1 wind from patek itself, the clock is still moving to this day XD
at 3.26 - is that hand resting on the dial !?
Well, aint that embarassing ?
im glad they resisted the temptation to put all kinds of jewellery on the thing. to make it look its price
Company founded by Antoni Patek from Poland in 1839.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patek_Philippe_%26_Co.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Patek
I need 26 millions dollars and don't need this watch
Time is valuable thing, let’s make it worth time👍 well done😎
What an accuracy...
Rick from Pawn Stars: "The best I can do, because I am taking all of the risk here with such a niche item, is $1200."
Haha
Franck Muller's Aeternitas Mega takes the cake for most complicated watch, now
that's the most complicated wristwatch, the most complicated watch is the 'Vacheron Constantin Reference 57260'. a pocketwatch with 57 complications from 2015.
@@Mr.Fabulous-1990 Ah, I see. Thanks for the correction! Very interesting pieces.
is this the wobbly finger model?.
Fine art, almost comparable to Vacheron Constantin 57260.
Why is it watchmakers want to make things more complicated?
Reminds me of watching the movie about how Alan Turing invented the computer at Bletchley Park to decode the German WW2 Enigma codes, the computer was an analogue affair. Nowadays my Samsung S10 and Iphone 7 will do all that this old Patek can do with much greater accuracy, the fact is as time goes on these time pieces will lose massive amounts of value and only the watch museums will be interested, sad but true, young people don't have any interest nowadays
1-clock=26-bugatti Veyron🤔🤔🤔
That really puts it in perspective
"pocket watch" LOL!
what a gorgeous timepiece though.
Does it have a digital calculator?
nice wall clock
seeing this makes me think life is worthless without money other than love and compassion
Love is often temporary. Greed is eternal.
Oh.... It's a clock! Nice bed side time piece.
It's a pocket watch
its the biggest pocket watch i've ever seen
You need big pockets to carry 6 million dollars around
It's a pocket watch ... but they will end up in a museum
It's a watch
Your missing context. We don't say wrist clock? despite fitting in with your copy and paste definition
In English, we use "watch" for a time piece we move around (wrist watch\pocket watch)
For a clock for a stationary time piece ( wall clock \ bedside clock)
How do you set it ?
Does a stand come with it?
It should be sent to space to show to aliens that humans are intelligent enough to be visited.
I have two of these in a shoe box at home .
$26 million,it's a wind up!.
So, how often does it need servicing... every 5 years? I’m thinking, wow, that’ll cost a bundle to have PP service. But then again, if I can pay $26M for a watch servicing would not be a concern haha.
If I had infinite amount of money, I’d buy this and I’ll throw it in garbage bin, just to make statement.
The amount of compensation-jokes that can be made about that watch....
Tout ceci permet à la Suisse de conserver sa suprématie en matière de précision et.....de beauté
Even more complicated is the apple watch with over 500 million micro transistors, 70 million leds and diodes, hundreds of microscopic resistors and capacitors capable of over 3000 actual functions, yet water resistant dust resistant , rechargeable lasts a lifetime and yet less than $1000. You are just paying so that a bunch of rich dudes could get more rich.
The irony is that the most sophisticated watch in the world is a 99 cent dollar store watch because the integrated circuit used in the watch contains millions of transistors! not to mention other components.
You dont know how watches work, do you ?
quem não entendeu o francês da um joinha aí!!!!!👍
Takes 6 years to build a pocket watch.
Whereas, it takes 1 year to build a 6,000 sqft home.
1 pocket watch = 3 Luxury Yacht. What the world has come to omg
a person who would buy this probably owns a billion dollar yacht bro, 26 mil is nothing for the ultra rich, buying this would be like you buying a casio watch
++@@koopatoopa667
This watch is only for old billionaire men that had dozens of watches and understand watch mechanics and like them for real ! Only these should have not only this but any PP
It's amazing how ever new lows are achieved in price/benefit relationship. It will be very hard to beat this.
Un artisans à l oeuvre
Really want to contemplate and experience it !!!
26 million bucks and it doesn’t even come with a band what a jipp.
I prefer boats 'n hoes instead.
lol
Guitars and hoes! That kind of $$ would buy a lot of either.
But what if you have 3 boats and 10 houses?
can I time travel with this watch ?
when i viewed the $752,000 masterpiece & saw that wobbly seconds finger i was horrified to think even patek philippe can make crap sometimes.
Does anyone know the name of the piece played in the clip?
Darude - Sandstorm - 3rd movement.
James Cree savage 😂😂😂
Pocket watch?
excessive wealth and vanity of the populace has created this modern watch industry. excessive wealth came from a massive difference between rich and poor.
3:24 the hand touch the dial..
1000 is the perfect price.
A $20.00 Atomic Clock constantly regulated with a radio signal from the NBS never gets out more than a few thousandths of a second. This 26 million dollar Rube Goldberg contraption can't even come close to that. Does Patek Philippe charge 1/2 of the purchase price to service it every two years?
david
Can Atomic Clock show date, time, position of starts, Easters, play chimes and all of that alone? Without power plant providing energy? Without computer counting all of those events? After atomic explosion? Nobody says is practical, but this is art/craft, not just a tool.
Lukas,
Yes, it can do all of that and more. After an atomic explosion? Hey, it's an Atomic Clock.
david