Among the watch's features are a double face, perpetual calendar, phases of the moon, a chronograph that can time two simultaneous events, Westminster chimes, and indications for the time of sunset and sunrise and the night sky over New York's Central Park as seen from Graves' home on Fifth Avenue.
Made in 1900 by English manufacturer J.W. Benson, the pocket watch has a number of complications that include a perpetual calendar, moon phase, and grande and petite sonnerie (translation: a big and little chime).
We existed in a perpetual post-college phase -- a term that seemed increasingly ridiculous when we started receiving notices for our 10-year-high-school reunions.
They included a perpetual calendar with phases and age of the moon, indication of sunrise and sunset, and a celestial chart depicting the constellations of stars in the sky over Packard's home in Ohio.
The Dream Watch 2 looked more conventional but was radical technically with its tourbillon, minute repeater, perpetual calendar, moon-phase indicator and five-day power reserve, while the Dream Watch 3 featured an ultra-light silicon and titanium tourbillon and five-day power reserve.
Brimming with 23 complications, including a perpetual calendar, a moon phase display and a thermometer, the watch was completed in 1827, four years after Mr. Breguet's death and 34 years after the queen's beheading.
Within the confines of a 46-millimeter, or 1.8-inch, case, Chopard's watchmakers have combined, among other functions, a tourbillon; a perpetual calendar; a moon phase; day, date and month indicators; a leap year indicator at the 3 o'clock position; a power reserve; and an equation of time feature.
The Gavox Aurora is a pilot's watch with several functions, including countdown timer, chronograph, date, perpetual calendar and moon phase.
It had a perpetual calendar with moon phases and according to Aurel Bacs, international head of Christie's watch department, who conducted the sale, stood out for "rarity and superior provenance".
A pocket watch, it includes a gold one-minute tourbillon with a slim coaxial escapement and every possible complication: minute repeating; instantaneous perpetual calendar; equation of time; phase of the moon; thermometer; and a power reserve indicator.
Commissioned in 1925 by Henry Graves Jr., the fiercely private heir to a New York banking fortune, the pocket watch boasts 24 complications, including a split-second chronograph, sunrise and sunset indications, a moon phase display, a perpetual calendar, a minute repeater that chimes the same melody as Big Ben, and a celestial chart mapping the nighttime sky over New York.
