The Most Complicated Watch In The World, The Vacheron Constantin Berkley Grand Complication

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  • Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
  • About a month before Watches & Wonders, a Vacheron Constantin team member told me something big would come from the Maison just ahead of the trade show. They also told me they thought I would be uniquely suited to cover the news, which to me meant only one thing: there was a pocket watch coming from Vacheron. For all the jokes from friends and colleagues, my passion for horology started with pocket watches, and I will forever be curious when a modern brand taps into that old style of watchmaking to do something interesting. But when I found out what Vacheron had in store, it wasn't just interesting, it was historic. As it turns out, the watch was called the Berkley Grand Complication, the most complicated watch in the world, and I knew that had to see it for myself.
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Комментарии • 34

  • @HRM.H
    @HRM.H 4 месяца назад +17

    Incredible piece. Would love to be the employee tasked with winding that every couple days

  • @Msgt_Slim
    @Msgt_Slim 4 месяца назад +8

    Proof positive that sometimes you should build something just because you can.

  • @gigo2252
    @gigo2252 4 месяца назад +7

    Amazing to see this master piece and hear your emotions about the experience:-) Thank you for sharing!

  • @jamesstanley7263
    @jamesstanley7263 4 месяца назад +38

    lol he called it a pocketwatch 😂

    • @jacc88888
      @jacc88888 4 месяца назад +11

      The billionaire who commissioned it has very ‘deep pockets’!

    • @dannymurzea
      @dannymurzea 4 месяца назад +3

      Duffle bag watch

    • @StephenDavidson5359
      @StephenDavidson5359 4 месяца назад +2

      I mean, any timepiece can be a pocket watch if your pockets are big enough 😅

    • @dustingaddis2423
      @dustingaddis2423 4 месяца назад

      *cargo pocket watch

    • @Reladan187
      @Reladan187 4 месяца назад

      Fits in the hoodie front pocket 😉

  • @johnd-xd9sn
    @johnd-xd9sn 4 месяца назад +5

    This is why VC belongs to the Holy Trinity...extraordinary in every regard.

  • @saphna2095
    @saphna2095 4 месяца назад +3

    awesome you covered this in depth! this masterpiece got a bit lost among the boatload of new releases during W&W

  • @Jeff-if4id
    @Jeff-if4id 4 месяца назад +10

    You'd need a big pocket for that bad boy! Impressive though!

  • @markdance574
    @markdance574 4 месяца назад +4

    As Del boy would say - that’s a fantastic Victorian egg timer - on a serious note that’s not just a watch that’s a Rembrandt Vacheron are on top of the world right now

  • @MarketingGuy
    @MarketingGuy 4 месяца назад +1

    Love the vibe of this video. But I would have also loved to hear the grand sonnerie of this watch.

  • @JoeyJiggles
    @JoeyJiggles 4 месяца назад +4

    Cristian is the coolest guy in the watch industry. One of the bigger reasons I go VC over PP

  • @edjack1993
    @edjack1993 4 месяца назад +4

    It’s amazing, but surely more of a clock than a pocket watch??

  • @tonyl7000
    @tonyl7000 4 месяца назад +3

    I would be terrified to touch that watch... 1 drop and it's all over...

  • @StephenDavidson5359
    @StephenDavidson5359 4 месяца назад

    Can someone that knows much much more about watches than I give me the name of that crazy pulsating spring inside the tourbillion?

  • @BulletBeena
    @BulletBeena 4 месяца назад +3

    At what point does a watch become a clock?

    • @carlb86
      @carlb86 4 месяца назад +2

      When you wall or desk mount it.

  • @jasperdiscovers
    @jasperdiscovers 4 месяца назад

    This is absolutely insane craftmanship. Lemme sell 900 kidneys to be able to buy it 🤣🤣

  • @shuycg
    @shuycg 4 месяца назад

    OMG, there's a long scratch on the bezel at 9. Imagine having to polish this piece for stretches like that.
    Surely they'll have to do that before handing it to the guy that ordered it. It must have picked up a few while being paraded for months.

  • @jakobmorningstar
    @jakobmorningstar 4 месяца назад

    By this definition my favorite pocket watch is Big Ben… to me this “watch” is as ridiculous an idea as the a 7/11 Big Gulp.

  • @maxxmaxx88
    @maxxmaxx88 4 месяца назад

    Took them long enough to make a complicated wach to rival the grandmaster chime

  • @ЕгорИсаев-ф1к
    @ЕгорИсаев-ф1к 4 месяца назад

    How big my pocket should be, to wear that "pocket watch"?)

  • @Qitipput
    @Qitipput 4 месяца назад

    "Pocket" watch lol

  • @Durchfallmann123
    @Durchfallmann123 4 месяца назад

    I love VC

  • @Durchfallmann123
    @Durchfallmann123 4 месяца назад

    Great Wat😮

  • @passengersplace
    @passengersplace 20 дней назад

    Apple Watch was invented in 2015
    People in 2014:

  • @Ataur835
    @Ataur835 4 месяца назад

    wow..

  • @markdance574
    @markdance574 4 месяца назад

    Here’s a thought / challenge - Einstein had a theory that TIME was relative ,Vacheron are the kings of time and so I challenge VC to make me a watch that makes my time the most pleasant and inspiring that it can be - design and build a time piece for me that makes this theory become reality .

  • @endautrestermes
    @endautrestermes 4 месяца назад

    Beautiful effort and utterly ridiculous object at the same time.

  • @swapnilsaraf5076
    @swapnilsaraf5076 3 месяца назад

    RM is overrated 😂
    should have had VC Celestia astronomical instead