12 Watches That Was Made Only For Millionaires

[Music] a small planetarium on your wrist enchanting birds and a watch working on the energy of magnetic fields this is an amazing release that will be appreciated by connoisseurs of high watch making art and just fans of cool intricate mechanisms performing one simple act of telling time Van Cleef & Arpels is not strictly a watchmaker but what they created is more than just a watch the midnight planetarium watch is made of pink gold turquoise serpentine jasper agate psycho light chlorella night aventurine and it's priced at a cool 245 thousand dollars this little planetarium on your wrist works on a mechanical module and shows the motion of six planets in the solar system the six planets are located on the dial of the watch each on its orbit Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter and Saturn and revolve around the Sun in real time each stone moves at the velocity of the corresponding planet for example mercury will pass the orbit in three months while Saturn will need 29 years and a half to make a revolution time is shown by a falling star moving along the 24-hour scale you can set a memorable date in the watch and it won't let you forget it when the date approaches the blue stone symbolizing the earth will appear exactly above the star letting you know that your day has come here is an interpretation of the legendary dial in which the symbol of infinity is incarnated the top part of the eight is designed to display time with hour and minute hands in the lower part there is a dome of sapphire glass with a touching automatic winding mechanism in the form of a singing bird it's no surprise that the watch received the name magic bird the tiny singing bird on the watch is really a special kind of watch making art and not only art but also a price of over five hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars [Music] MPO five liffe re in terms of design and technical features this watch is a copy of the engine bay of a Ferrari supercar the watch was developed in parallel with the car the shape of the sapphire crystal resembles the transparent cover of the Ferraris hood and the mechanism looks like the engine itself the mechanism of the watch includes 637 moving components and 11 lined up shafts provide this watch with a record power reserve of 50 days for convenience the figures on each cylinder are drawn with a glow-in-the-dark pigment and made as large as possible the display is visually enlarged and it's easy to see the time even in total darkness the Liffe re watch at the cost of nearly two hundred and ten thousand dollars perfectly harmonizes with the eponymous inexpensive supercar this is another masterpiece in the form of an exclusive bird design by the same swiss company the Torme tete bird decorates the dial of this unusual watch and are engraved on the dial using a special multi-layer engraving technique the complex mechanism inside the watch case is a special chapter of the story behind this masterpiece when the watch starts a picture animation system is activated and the static picture on the dial comes to life the mother tom tete feeds her baby and the house father shelters the tiny newly born nestling with his wings the waterfall against which the action takes place also comes to life so that you can hear the noise of falling water the 48 hour power reserve is packed in a forty seven millimeter case of red gold the result of the two-year design work equals sixteen copies at the cost of five hundred and twenty five thousand dollars each [Music] it's Van Cleef & Arpels again and two more amazing watches the lady our peoples poetic wish watch depicts a young woman on the Eiffel Tower watching a kite pass by a symbol of luck she wishes to be reunited with her loved one forever the midnight poetic wish watch appropriately its dial depicts a night scenery in Paris and a young man who is standing at the top of notre-dame Cathedral looking at the Eiffel Tower where his darling stands the first watch is a reference to the second watch as if they supplemented each other's pictures the price of this watch is four hundred and eighty three thousand one hundred dollars this astronomic watch by Jacob and company is so amazing that you won't be able to take your eyes off of it the astronomic tour billion watch is equipped with a four pointed carousel displaying the hours and minutes functions there is a one carat diamond representing the moon and the model of the earth is made of white gold magnificent blue enamel on the dial symbolizes the oceans and serves as a backdrop to the three-axle tour billion the complicated collage of moving models revolves around its axis in five minutes the tour billions step is six seconds the whole carousel construction turns around its axis in 20 minutes it's just an amazing show at the cost of 1.1 million dollars h4 metropolis a special feature of this watch model is the hydro-mechanical caliber with manual winding as you may already know hyt watches are unique in using two immiscible fluids one clear one color which are pumped by a pair of elastic metal bellows through a transparent tube the boundary line between the fluids functions as the point of reading off the hours while the minutes are read off from a conventional separate dial to activate the tiny generator for winding the mechanism a knurled button is used in the position between four and five hours with another button the beams of light from built-in LEDs are fed to the tanks in addition to hours and minutes the model indicates seconds and the power reserve which makes up 65 hours if you are not impressed by the above-mentioned watches here is another development by the same manufacturer but much more interesting in the center of hydro-mechanical watch there is a skull the mechanism is the same a button activates the generator which supplies luminescent liquid of red color along the tube wrapping the skull that will show you the time in this model all actions come from pressing one button and the most important difference between this watch and metropolis is as you may have noticed the minute hand is missing why do you need it there is no hurry when you have a futuristic skull on your wrist for a cool 100 thousand dollars [Music] the next watch operates on magnetic energy its advertisement a three minute movie which looks like a science fiction blockbuster the claret extreme watch is distinguished by use of magnetic fields to hollow steel spheres enclosed in sapphire crystal tubes on the right and left on the housing ring move in the most mysterious way without any mechanical support only under the influence of magnetic fields magically it is the positions of these balls that indicates the current time and the fields are focused so accurately that they have no impact on the watch mechanism the current time is read out from a metallized scale located next to each tube hours are on the left minutes are on the right 60 for precious stones 419 parts and a case of white gold of the cost of nearly $300,000 inspired by the science fiction TV show Star Trek V&E halter an independent watchmaker introduced his space watch to the world the watch's design looks like a space station on which all the major events of Star Trek take place descent and balance are in the titanium carriage of the tour billion which makes a revolution in 40 seconds this structure rotates as on a spit around the second axis making a revolution in six minutes finally the base of this cradle makes a full revolution in the plane of the mechanism in 30 minutes the tour billion moves under a dome-shaped sapphire crystal giving the opportunity to observe the complete revolution cycle of the watch work poor illogical machine number 6 AKA space pirate cost a little less than a mission to Mars the watch which its maker says has been designed to operate in the hostile environment of the space on your wrist is one of just two timepieces to be awarded red dot design awards in the competition's current round in each of the four corners of hm sixes biomorphic case is a 360 degrees fear cap top and bottom by transparent sapphire crystal domes up forward to semi-spherical indications rotate vertically displaying hours and minutes back aft driven by multiplying gearing by the automatic winding rotor twin spherical turbines spin horizontally automatically regulating the winding system in case of excessive speed to reduce stress and wear the transparent central dome houses a 60 second flying tour billion the precision regulator of HM sixes engine this flying tour billion can be protected from UV radiation which speeds up oxidation of lubricating oils by a retractable shield operated by a crown on the left side of the case a special thanks to you if you've watched up to here see you in the next cool release [Music]

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Keywords: 12 WATCHES that was MADE ONLY FOR MILLIONAIRES, Van Cleef & Arpels, winding mechanism, Magic Bird, MP-05 LaFerrari, The Lady Arpels Poetic Wish watch, The Midnight Poetic Wish Watch, Jacob & Co, Astronomia Tourbillion, tourbillon’, H4 Metropolis, hydromechanical caliber, Metropolis, Claret Extreme, space watch, Horological Machine No. 6

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Length: 10min 26sec (626 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 15 2018