Some timepieces contain as many as 40 functions, but how many do their owners understand?
BASEL, Switzerland — With 1,155 parts in the movement and 40 functions, including 23 complications and 17 “technical devices,” the Audemars Piguet Code 11.59 Ultra-Complication Universelle RD#4 has been hailed as one of the most complex watches ever made.
But why? Who needs 40 functions on their wrist?
“That is a good question,” the master watchmaker Giulio Papi, technical director of Audemars Piguet Le Locle, said with a laugh during a recent telephone interview. “When you spend 1.5 million Swiss Francs, maybe it is for other reasons than for practical reasons. You are probably a connoisseur collector,
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