The Most Stupidly Complex American Watch Ever

The Most Stupidly Complex American Watch Ever It weighs more than a pound. Cold in the hand, the way serious gold always is. Two faces, nine hundred and twenty individual parts, twenty-four separate functions beyond simply telling the time. Every part made by hand — no computers, no digital modeling, nothing more sophisticated than what a skilled craftsman could operate in a Swiss workshop in 1926. It is the most complicated mechanical timepiece ever built without digital assistance. It sold at auction in 2014 for twenty-four million dollars. The man who ordered it was from New Jersey.