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A. Lange & Söhne created a larger-than-life mock-up of its grand complication watch, complete in all its details.
The November sale will include two Daniels pocket watches featuring the co-axial escapement for which the maker once said he had a special affection: the Space Travellers Watchh, made around 1982, carries an estimate of £400,000 to £600,000, and the Grande Complication watch, dating from around 1987, is estimated at £500,000 to £800,000.
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There are fancy-chap things like blended-to-order fragrances from Le Labo and pick-your-own-complication watches from Vacheron Constantin.
One of the more interesting high-complication watches for Jaeger-LeCoultre this year was the Reverso Répétition Minutes à Rideau.
It has 24 complications, and for decades, Ms. Reibel said, was considered the world's most complicated watch.
A highlight of Van Cleef's offerings was the Lady Arpels Ballerine Enchantée Poetic Complication, a watch with a double retrograde mechanical movement that reveals the time with the touch of a button that triggers the unfolding of the tutu of a golden ballerina.
Breguet Classique Grande Complication Pocket Watch in 18-karat yellow gold.
Audemars Piguet Grande Complication Pocket Watch in 18-karat yellow gold.
(Complications are mechanical functions of the watch other than the hours, minutes and seconds). Packard commissioned 13 complicated watches from Patek Philippe between 1900 and 1927.
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