Meet the World's Most Complicated Watch

Even if we don't carry this brand, Vacheron Constantin deserves attention for creating the world's most complicated watch. The watch was unveiled in Geneva recently at the brand's 260th anniversary celebrations.
Named the Reference 57260 — the timepiece was a special order from a private collector who commissioned the brand to build the most complicated watch of the 21st century. The watch took a team of three master watchmakers eight years to build. Its complicated movement consists of more than 2,800 parts and boasts 57 complications — including the Hebraic Perpetual Calendar — which has never before been built into a watch.
But the ability to create a timepiece above and beyond the call of duty harkens back a century ago to when Vacheron Constantin was breaking world records as it vied for the most complicated watch title. Vacheron Constantin built a legendary watch for James Ward Packard, who, in the 1920s and 1930s, had a healthy competition going with Henry Graves, as each sought out the most complicated watch. That rivalry resulted in some of the most famous — and complicated — watches of all times, built by Vacheron Constantin and Patek Philippe.
The new watch — with 30 hands and measuring almost 100 mm across — is made for the current century — with incredible technical solutions to existing complications and with new complications, including a spherical tourbillon, astronomical sky chart, multiple different types of calendars and Westminster chimes.

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