![I wasn’t entirely sure to make of this at first. It’s a $300,000 watch by Christophe Claret called the DualTow. Now you would think a $300,000 watch would be full of jewels and features and, while it has 73 jewels, I’m not entirely sure of the value. Take a look at the breakdown of the product on Luxist:
The manually wound movement is an ultra complex tourbillon with mono-pusher chronograph consisting of 582 parts alone, and with 73 jewels. The tourbillon rests in the lower part of the dial, while the planetary gear based 12 hour chronograph resides in the top portion of the case. The planetary gear used for the chronograph is similar to a column wheel. Then there is the “DualTow” portion of the watch used to tell the time. It is really much like a “5 minute clock” in the sense that the time is digitally displayed to the nearest five minutes.
So you’re paying for a, seemingly, needlessly complicated watch that doesn’t actually tell you the correct time. Logical. I’ll put it right next to my Christophe Claret Air Conditioner. Sometimes it dispenses cool air in the winter, other times it spurts balls of flames at me in the summer. But who cares about functionality! I’m paying for LUXURY. And third degree burns.
[via, thanks Leslie for the tip!]](http://26.media.tumblr.com/l7PdVT0LWockq15yNvKdhhl1o1_400.jpg)
I wasn’t entirely sure to make of this at first. It’s a $300,000 watch by Christophe Claret called the DualTow. Now you would think a $300,000 watch would be full of jewels and features and, while it has 73 jewels, I’m not entirely sure of the value. Take a look at the breakdown of the product on Luxist:
The manually wound movement is an ultra complex tourbillon with mono-pusher chronograph consisting of 582 parts alone, and with 73 jewels. The tourbillon rests in the lower part of the dial, while the planetary gear based 12 hour chronograph resides in the top portion of the case. The planetary gear used for the chronograph is similar to a column wheel. Then there is the “DualTow” portion of the watch used to tell the time. It is really much like a “5 minute clock” in the sense that the time is digitally displayed to the nearest five minutes.
So you’re paying for a, seemingly, needlessly complicated watch that doesn’t actually tell you the correct time. Logical. I’ll put it right next to my Christophe Claret Air Conditioner. Sometimes it dispenses cool air in the winter, other times it spurts balls of flames at me in the summer. But who cares about functionality! I’m paying for LUXURY. And third degree burns.
[via, thanks Leslie for the tip!]
