+joshua lam Yeah but look how big it is. Gives you the privilege of saying mines bigger than yours. It's like wearing a wind up alarm clock on your wrist. Talk about steampunked.
To anyone who may be interested I made a video about how clocks work with detailed computations and a short discussion about the nature of time: Enjoy: ua-cam.com/video/D1_Jqy4cWgY/v-deo.html&ab_channel=Math%2CPhysics%2CEngineering
+Rio Sanjaya many watchmakers use sebum (The product of the Sebaceous gland the sides of humans noses offer a plentiful supply)as an assembly lubricant I watched my late father a master watchmaker do it for years!
The level these watchmakers operate at is fascinating. Even a simple on/off switch for the alarm function is a miniature work of art. Priced accordingly at $2.5 million.....But, If you hang around watch enthusiasts and you just want everyone to STFU, this is your watch.
ellasOLE22 These things have to be in the shop being maintained pretty often (they're a lot like super cars), and the maintenance costs for these high end watches are ridiculous.
Leggo My Ego now thats fucking bullshit, "pretty often" is like a span of 5-10 years and most of these super expensive watches have a lifetime free maintenance/guarantee
pumpkinsoul12 now that's fucking bullshit and it tells me you've never owned a luxury watch. I don't know of a single high end watch brand that has lifetime free maintenance. For example, Patek recommends servicing every 3-5 years, and they charge 1500 swiss francs per service on a watch I own. That's fine if you only own a single watch (and nothing happens to it), but if you have a collection it gets expensive. Here is the truth that you seem to know nothing about: www.nytimes.com/2009/11/27/fashion/27iht-acawrepair.html?pagewanted=all www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aY73d5h8j7XY
pumpkinsoul12 Eh, 5 years is, in fact, about max. After that it should be broken down and cleaned and re-oiled. Dust can get in past gaskets and the crystal and it's not worth ruining a watch because you're too cheap to get it serviced. Now something like a Patek you'd want to get serviced through them considering their ridiculous price tag.
I can't BELIEVE how steady their hands are. I work on watches every day and my hands are shaky af when some tiny screws need to be threaded and these guys are busy making absolute magic happen. Idk if you all realize how tiny of a scale they are working with.
Same here, I got it from my mom, she's the same way. Wrist watches are like magic, it's almost like they are alive when you see them spring to life while they are being put together.
My god, this brings back memories of my father, he was a master watchmaker trained in Prague and was an engraver also. He would have loved this video, may thanks. This type of skill is becoming a lost art, and in his day there was no CNC equipment.
A watchmaker once told me that several decades ago, as the Japanese were developing the intricacy and miniaturization of their mechanical watch market for the world, they created a tiny metal wire, thinner than a human hair and proudly sent it to the watchmakers in Switzerland, expecting to receive praise over such an achievement of miniaturization. Soon, the tiny wire was sent back to Japan, with no note or acknowledgement, until one of the watchmakers noticed, under extreme magnification, that the Swiss had drilled a hole lengthwise through their tiny wire, making it into the world's smallest pipe.
Nice to see CNC machines, lathes, and computers at work. But what really impresses me are old watches, from times when they didn't have computers to design them, and automatic machines to make the parts on. They really had to use their brain for the designing part, and their hands for the fabricating part.
This is 5175, perfectly designed, perfectly engineered, perfectly made. Sorry Patek Philippe is not a hipster brand but calling them "brainless" because they use technology is the most brainless thing I've ever heard from a person talking about watches.
TigerVIB Irish UFC fighter Conor McGregor, known for his flashy style both inside and outside the cage, once remarked that 'tree' people died making his gold pocket watch.
The moment he puts that final screw in and the masterpiece that he worked sooooo hard on is finally done is the moment I get sucked into, them admiring a true masterpiece created by their own hands must be an amazing feeling
If you weren't very impressed by the magnificence of seeing this time piece being designed and assembled you truly have no soul. That was fine art from start to finish.
That's not fair to say. The latest Apple M1 Max processor has 57 billion transistors and there are chips that have a much higher count but the average person doesn't even care about such tech or what it takes to design and fabricate such things. They just take it for granted as a finished product. The world is filled with man-made marvel's many of us take for granted but we do have souls all the same. Let's just say we all can't appreciate all things in the same way. Fine pottery would leave yawning as that's just not my thing although I know any craft takes years to achieve a high level of skills.
@@billshuey7422 take it easy on quartz my brethren. They have their place in the wonderful world of watches, and a good one certainly does it's intended job quite admirably. I love my autos, but regular day to day I usually have a beater Casio of some sort rocking on the wrist. Now... If I was a high power business type, suited and booted everyday then I would certainly opt for the fancy autos more often. There really is something almost magical about a finely made automatic watch.
Such a pleasure to watch this master watchmaker build this truly magnificent timepiece. I can't help but wonder how watchmakers from a century ago...2 centuries... how did they make all those precision and intricate parts. How did they even know what parts were needed? How to put them all together to make a watch. I have a full hunter repeater that was made in the 1890s. It is beautiful to me. And so amazing. I had it fully cleaned last year and listen to it every morning announcing the time and quarter-hour. I am in awe of the talent and patience to do this kind of work.
9:39 The combined talents of the world's finest watch makers and several hundred hours of intense creativity. (Sells watch to Rodney Dangerfield's character in Caddy Shack.)
When all's said and done, what is a watch for? If its stated brief is to massage somebody's ego, then this is a great watch. If it's to tell time, well, I have a Casio that cost £35, and is still running on its original battery, though it is 10 years old. And although it gains a few seconds per day now, for the first year, it kept time within about a second and a half *_per week!!_* That may seem like an exaggerated claim - but it's true. The glass is scratched now, and the case also looks a bit graunched because I wear it while I'm working on cars, or in my workshop, so it needs replacing before too long - but for the price, I could buy a lot of them for the cost of the one in the video.
@@walkingarrow3244 I had a problem with mine. I found that I couldn't adjust it any more - the buttons got stiffer and stiffer to operate till they barely worked at all - which meant that every time I had to adjust for daylight saving, I had to take the back off and operate the switches manually. The buttons press in little brass contacts, so I bent them a bit to help make contact - but the repair didn't last long. Next time I had to take the back off, I discovered that the buttons simply didn't move, so they couldn't press on the brass contacts. I found that each button had a tiny C-clip on its shaft, so I took them off (without any of them springing away and getting lost - WOO HOO !!) and removed the buttons. The buttons have a head and a shaft (a bit like a tiny, thick-headed drawing pin), and I found an accumulation of compacted dust under the head of the button which prevented it from being pressed in. I cleaned it out, and the watch works like new again. The repair took less than an hour. Pity I scratched up the glass so much - but I can still tell the time on it - and like I said - what is a watch for?
@@SKBKER You didn't indicate who you were replying to, but what you said suggests it was addressed to me. I'm not in the billionaire bracket, but I'm not poor either. I have bought two things in my time that were considerably more expensive than a top-notch watch - but they were very practical things for two people who needed them. Instead of doing that, I could easily have bought a _very_ expensive watch, or a flashy car, but instead, I have a Casio and a 14 year old Citroen. I'm simply not impressed by "bling". I was an engineer by profession, and admire fine engineering - but I wouldn't spend on a finely engineered solution if a much cheaper, cruder product would do the job just as well. In the days when all watches were mechanical, I used to fix them as a paying hobby, and I still harbour an affection for time pieces (which is the reason I was looking at _this_ video), and I love the wooden clocks by Clayton Boyer, and have often thought of buying plans to make one. My brother used to fix watches too, and his admiration drove him to purchase a Rolex Oyster, and he was very proud of it till he was held up at gunpoint and had it stolen - but he had also come to the realisation that it didn't give him anything that a cheap, quartz watch would not give him - so that's what he got next. I reiterate what I said - if you want to tell the time, get a watch for $100. It will do the job just great. If you want something to massage your ego - well, a $100 watch won't do that for you. It's all a case of what you expect to get from a watch.
Paintings have sold for over $200 million, and they just hang there. It's much easier for me to understand paying big art money for an item that DOES something. A watch like this one, or a 1933 Duesenberg II Boattail Speedster. I guess I'm just not sophisticated enough to appreciate paint on canvas.
Well try to sell a copy of same painting for $200 million. Wrist watches are not genuine works of art while paintings are. Quality over quantity. I hate that they make such complex watches only with costly materials... Machines can do the same job!
Clay Loomis, if function matters the most, why not just buy a $50 watch that has far more functions than this and doesn't need to be maintained every couple of years? Or maybe just buy a smartphone and not have a watch at all?
It is wonderful to see how the factory uses the most modern computerized tools and powerful computers to develop a fully mechanical watch, when the watch itself might as well be a computer instead of a lovely combination of gears.....
I’ve been watching UA-cam for something like 15 years and that was one of the greatest videos I’ve seen. The craftsmanship is unbelievable. I’ll likely never own a Patek, but I’m a huge fan nonetheless.
@@redsea1234 Seiko is a solid watch company that makes many fine watches. They make every part of all their watches. Rolex has always been the great pretender. Seiko's Spring Drive is the most unique and innovative there is BAR NONE!
@@redsea1234 Seiko is a many-faceted company. They produce lower-level quartz movements, cheaply, for mass-consumption. They also produce their Grand Seiko line which far outstrips most of their European counterparts. Scott E is absolutely correct about Seiko’s Spring Drive movement. Educate yourself a little more about watchmaking before making sophomoric comments.
@Pedro Ivan Sanchez What are you replying to? Seiko (or rather, Grand Seiko) produce very few watches in the $25K+ range, and those are limited editions. My daily beater watch is a Seiko King Turtle SRPE05. It costs around $450 and keeps decent time -5/+8 seconds/day, (close to COSC standards). If I want to wear an even more accurate watch at a low price, I’ll wear my Casio FW91 quartz digital watch. It set me back a whopping $13 on Amazon.
That was Utterly.. Magnificent.. What a truly amazing piece of art. I would be humbled and honored to own one. Thank you for the design and build video. I have always been fascinated by timepieces.. especially in miniature,; enough to be able to work on mine own much less complex models and be able to handle repairs on common watches and clocks.. This piece is sooooooooooo far beyond that.. magic in motion, and of.... motion... all in perfect harmony... There was one thing missing besides HD 1080p for us to be able to even more clearly see all the amazing minute details.. I would have loved to have been able to hear all the chimes and gongs demonstrated... Hopefully one day.. I may be able to witness this moment of elegance performed in person. Just think... Clocks have been around for centuries.. All of that knowledge and experience passed down mostly by hand and now enhanced by computer technology... creating this most.. exceptional time piece. Thank you again and do have a Blessed Day.
Wow!.. I always had a lot of respect for Patek Phillipe and to me, along with Vacheron, were the very best of the best. But this gives me another take on watch making and the kind of craftmanship it takes to be where they are now. These are awesome watches, 20 complications and a reversible watch, just amazing.
I chopped off my 2 arms and legs, my testicles and also sold a kidney on the black market to afford this watch. I can't move anymore but it's a small compromise to be able to know what is the current moon phase since I'm a werewolf.
It's not true, your body is far more complicated and costlier than this watch. In fact human body is miracle. If you can build a human body from scratch (not by se*) you will become god. And cost of making that body will be far more than million times the cost of this watch. Only building brain like a human brain will cost more than trillions of dollars still it won't be as perfect as yours or anyones.
Wonderful to see bits of this process. I wonder how high their failure rate is, in how many of those million-dollar watches go back for repair. Sure Patek is among the absolut elite and great craftsmen, but with this many parts and the whole process involving so much human labor, you'd think it is inevitable.
+Endly Anantha He's calling you stupid because you don't get that putting so much effort in a watch makes it a piece of art.. I'm pretty sure it's in a museum right now..
Do what do you think we were created or evolved, if we were created, who? And can evolucion and the evolution of councious be repeated with a different spicies?
Silicone Shart it's a lead sharpener and the lead is in a lead holder. When you spin it the lead and the sharpener inside move with each other and create a really fine point. Kinda like the old school sharpeners on the wall in school that you had to turn the handle but instead you're turning the lead holder. Lead is used instead of pencils because lead is harder so it keeps its point more for more precise lines. It's commonly used for design, drafting, and architecture. The more you know!
omg, i got goosebumps watching this. this is better than looking at any picaso or rembrant...this is the highest level of art and luxery. My grail watch...absolutely amazing!!!!
if he is proper rich (not from government and not from using government guns to enforce monopoly) then it means he has given people a product or service they demanded and did it efficiently since in a competitive market you need to find algorithms to do the job more efficiently otherwise you can't compete with the next guy who does it better faster cheaper. The money he receives for giving people a product or service they demand- the money he receives represents a surplus in the system that he has earned. If he wants to convert that surplus that his business achieved into buying a watch makers precious time then so be it. It isn't 'fucking humanity.' there are no victims in their trade. It is government that fucks humanity
What a shame these technicians put themselves through knowingly waste time making watches when the best they can do when it comes to precision is worse than a quartz clock at the cost of ten dollar. More than 99.99% of their efforts goes to make a good look as if they all are homosexuals.
Hoang Duong That may be so, but as it seams these technicians are not adult enough to say all they do for a living is to decorate, but rather pretend they are making something useful which is simply not true.
That's right. The machining equipment and tooling alone is amazing. Some of the most precise instruments in the world, which allows them to create the most precise and complex watches in the world. Truly amazing.
I have a couple hobbies outside of weightlifting which doesn't really apply. But I like to rebuild and modify old motorcycles, and I love watches (collecting mainly, but would love to try my hand at the jewelry world some day). Anyways, everytime I get really frustrated with some bike part not working, syncing or just going together smoothly, it always chills me out a bit to think about how frustrating trying to put together (or fix for that matter) one of these crazy complicated automatic movements would be....
The worst aspect of this watch is the double face - that's mickey-mouse gimmicky stuff to me. Nobody needs a watch that they can flip over to see another side, otherwise we'd all have two-faced watches. And if you are going to do this, the master craftsmanship would be in the size remaining the same. This thing is too chunky.
The first time I saw this video everything just started to make sense. It was then I realised that watchmaking was the thing I’ve been looking for my entire life. Currently in the process of applying to a school.
Good luck. I am a surgical specialist and my field generally has very small margins for error but my attendings would always tell us to move quicker, that we weren't "building a watch here". This is what is meant by that.
Apple are the masters of advertising and promotion to make something average seem extraordinary since they know their customers are often very easy to fool.
sam3d I had a choice to get an Apple computer but decided to just burn £1000 and with the money left over could still buy a PC that's better than a Mac.
Casio make digital watches too you know. I remember when digital watches were the height of desirability and had a price tag to match. Nowadays we have these supercomputer smartwatches on our wrists.
Casio hugely popular in 1980s and 1990s nostalgic aesthetic. Decline in analogue because they look antique old manual clocks, when Casio is digital automatic and has default features like backlight, alarm, stopwatch, timer, countdown and additional technologies in various models. Because the 21st century was peaking and it was a necessity to have binary digital dials because it look more to its age and the future was shaping in progress. 1970s the first digital watches were begin produced, around Mid decade Casiotron came out and it cost a fortune but models after were insanely cheap. Mid-late 90s I got my first interest in them.
I have 6 antique fobwatches from the late 1880s and another purchase of a fobwatch from 1855 all have solid silver case's the mechanical work is amazing for its time
Watches like this similar to a human bodies would you like walking around people can see your heart your kidneys, your liver your lungs all your organs same with watches ,the miracles that make your organs work is hidden and protected same with watches the components that make watches work should be also hidden and protected ...
The first to reproduce the “Antikithera”astronomical clock will make more millions. I can’t wait to see it, but I’m sure I can’t afford it. Please do a video on it for the masses like me to enjoy.
I can't imagine anyone watching this video and not respecting the intricate craftsmanship involved. This is nothing short of Art at its finest, a master piece in its own right. As someone who appreciates watches I felt a deep sense of emotional gratification watching this piece come together step by step. Bravo Patek! Unfortunately watchmaking like this is a dying art.
So... what does your watch do?
-it's complicated...
***** Glad you lik it.
+Marcin Kościelny its not what it does..it is how it is made and the resources it used.
+RICHARD NGANGA but all that hard work and the best feature is you can flip it over. so now I have two watches is one Mind Blown
+joshua lam
Yeah but look how big it is. Gives you the privilege of saying mines bigger than yours.
It's like wearing a wind up alarm clock on your wrist. Talk about steampunked.
L Doyle let me ask you this Who wears a wind up alarm on their wrist?
that watch says "I own you, I own the company you work for, I own your elected officials".
Preach it
+morelli tech It says that to the brainwashed appeal to authority type of human... or shall i say slave?
+PartOfYou ok special snowflake
+morelli tech That watch says only one thing it's "I" and its pathetic.
Imagine finding this in your grandpa's house and he asks you to repair it
I got a working seiko (60 yr ) from my grandpa he told me to repair it and keep it 😍
Me be like : go to repair your BRAIN MDF !!
Than ur grandpa would be millionaire
@@emperorff-2081 😆😆
I would gladly
Making that watch looks more complicated than making omnitrix😂😂
🤣🤣
😂😂😂
To anyone who may be interested I made a video about how clocks work with detailed computations
and a short discussion about the nature of time:
Enjoy:
ua-cam.com/video/D1_Jqy4cWgY/v-deo.html&ab_channel=Math%2CPhysics%2CEngineering
...or untangling a Slinky.
Not as many moving parts as an hour glass.
Clap, clap, clap !!!
That's true
I get it.
That was funny!
fair comparison haha
did he stuck the gear into his nose? @07:54
LOL
+Rio Sanjaya LOL!
+Rio Sanjaya I guess it needed a pro lubrication before installation.
+Rio Sanjaya wtfug he did .. but it a nice watch though
+Rio Sanjaya i watch that over 100 times
+Rio Sanjaya many watchmakers use sebum (The product of the Sebaceous gland the sides of humans noses offer a plentiful supply)as an assembly lubricant I watched my late father a master watchmaker do it for years!
The level these watchmakers operate at is fascinating. Even a simple on/off switch for the alarm function is a miniature work of art. Priced accordingly at $2.5 million.....But, If you hang around watch enthusiasts and you just want everyone to STFU, this is your watch.
I am an average joe type guy and when I watch something like this, makes me feel like a little child. This is incredible!!!
but will it blend?
That is the question.
I watched the video since the iphone 5 got blended hahaha
Maltfalc hahhaha best comment that I read today :D
+Atheist Avenger It should come with a magnifying glass and a cure for the "maraca guy pulse"
+Maltfalc
Yes, if you are a pimp or a 80's third world dictator, it will blend perfectly. God bless them.
That was all to change the battery...
A True Wisconsinite good thing this watch dosnt have a battery, could you imagine taking it apart to replace it haha
ellasOLE22 These things have to be in the shop being maintained pretty often (they're a lot like super cars), and the maintenance costs for these high end watches are ridiculous.
Leggo My Ego now thats fucking bullshit, "pretty often" is like a span of 5-10 years and most of these super expensive watches have a lifetime free maintenance/guarantee
pumpkinsoul12
now that's fucking bullshit and it tells me you've never owned a luxury watch. I don't know of a single high end watch brand that has lifetime free maintenance. For example, Patek recommends servicing every 3-5 years, and they charge 1500 swiss francs per service on a watch I own. That's fine if you only own a single watch (and nothing happens to it), but if you have a collection it gets expensive.
Here is the truth that you seem to know nothing about:
www.nytimes.com/2009/11/27/fashion/27iht-acawrepair.html?pagewanted=all
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aY73d5h8j7XY
pumpkinsoul12
Eh, 5 years is, in fact, about max. After that it should be broken down and cleaned and re-oiled. Dust can get in past gaskets and the crystal and it's not worth ruining a watch because you're too cheap to get it serviced. Now something like a Patek you'd want to get serviced through them considering their ridiculous price tag.
I can't BELIEVE how steady their hands are. I work on watches every day and my hands are shaky af when some tiny screws need to be threaded and these guys are busy making absolute magic happen. Idk if you all realize how tiny of a scale they are working with.
start by totally eliminating all caffeine consumption and your hands will steady out. I learned that from some eye surgeons.
Stretching and nerve glide exercises help a ton!
I think it might be just as easy for you to look steady when the commercial crew omits the footage of you not looking steady.
Same here, I got it from my mom, she's the same way. Wrist watches are like magic, it's almost like they are alive when you see them spring to life while they are being put together.
learn an instrument and then play live, everything gets steady after that
For anyone interested, that watch auctioned for $31.2 million in 2019. It's currently the most expensive watch ever sold.
I was wondering where this comment is. I knew it would be somewhere around here lol
i bet this watch can run crysis with max settings.
CsmatrixTR lol 😂😂😂
Jesus Christ I almost died that was so funny. You cant just say shit that funny....
CsmatrixTR you made my day 😂😂😂
hahaha
No it won't but it can kill anyone with its price tag.
My god, this brings back memories of my father, he was a master watchmaker trained in Prague and was an engraver also. He would have loved this video, may thanks. This type of skill is becoming a lost art, and in his day there was no CNC equipment.
A watchmaker once told me that several decades ago, as the Japanese were developing the intricacy and miniaturization of their mechanical watch market for the world, they created a tiny metal wire, thinner than a human hair and proudly sent it to the watchmakers in Switzerland, expecting to receive praise over such an achievement of miniaturization. Soon, the tiny wire
was sent back to Japan, with no note or acknowledgement, until one of the watchmakers noticed, under extreme magnification, that the Swiss had drilled a hole lengthwise through their tiny wire, making it into the world's smallest pipe.
As a teenager I heard exactly the opposite. It would be interesting to know the actual story.
I have heard the same story in several guises. It's an amusing anecdote, but I don't suppose there's any truth in it.
@@DownhillAllTheWay yep, me too !!
Nice to see CNC machines, lathes, and computers at work.
But what really impresses me are old watches, from times when they didn't have computers to design them, and automatic machines to make the parts on.
They really had to use their brain for the designing part, and their hands for the fabricating part.
This is 5175, perfectly designed, perfectly engineered, perfectly made. Sorry Patek Philippe is not a hipster brand but calling them "brainless" because they use technology is the most brainless thing I've ever heard from a person talking about watches.
True but their precision was really bad
@@danielperlman8802
Try making screws smaller than the eye of a mosquito.
When he flip it... HOLY SHIT
3 people died making this Watch.
***** "tree people" xD
Cuong Tran I dont get it
TigerVIB Irish UFC fighter Conor McGregor, known for his flashy style both inside and outside the cage, once remarked that 'tree' people died making his gold pocket watch.
TigerVIB Like it takes so much time to create them, that would be job for whole life for 3 people just to make just one this watch. (lyric hyperbole)
+TigerVIB think he might be trying to paraphrase Pulp Fiction, where butch get his watch from his father.
I can't find the words to explain how I just "Watched" a masterpiece being created from beginning to the end. That's a museum piece.....😯😯😯😲😲
The moment he puts that final screw in and the masterpiece that he worked sooooo hard on is finally done is the moment I get sucked into, them admiring a true masterpiece created by their own hands must be an amazing feeling
i genuinely think in that moment he's still infact looking for imperfections haha
quick, I need a small loan of one million dollars.
+Jake Evan it's 2.7 million dollars.
+Mateusz Gawliński I believe he was quoting Donald Trump's struggle with only a "small one million dollar loan" from his father.
+WarMachine Oh, I see! I'm not very familiar with US everyday matters ;)
*2.6
it TIME you get a job .... making watches ....😵
Screw the watch, I want that clutch pencil sharpener in the beginning.
If you weren't very impressed by the magnificence of seeing this time piece being designed and assembled you truly have no soul.
That was fine art from start to finish.
True if it does not impress you with its beauty, you need a soulless quartz!
I think good engineering is an art form.
That's not fair to say. The latest Apple M1 Max processor has 57 billion transistors and there are chips that have a much higher count but the average person doesn't even care about such tech or what it takes to design and fabricate such things. They just take it for granted as a finished product. The world is filled with man-made marvel's many of us take for granted but we do have souls all the same. Let's just say we all can't appreciate all things in the same way. Fine pottery would leave yawning as that's just not my thing although I know any craft takes years to achieve a high level of skills.
Thanks Aristotle.
@@billshuey7422 take it easy on quartz my brethren. They have their place in the wonderful world of watches, and a good one certainly does it's intended job quite admirably. I love my autos, but regular day to day I usually have a beater Casio of some sort rocking on the wrist. Now... If I was a high power business type, suited and booted everyday then I would certainly opt for the fancy autos more often. There really is something almost magical about a finely made automatic watch.
Such a pleasure to watch this master watchmaker build this truly magnificent timepiece. I can't help but wonder how watchmakers from a century ago...2 centuries... how did they make all those precision and intricate parts. How did they even know what parts were needed? How to put them all together to make a watch. I have a full hunter repeater that was made in the 1890s. It is beautiful to me. And so amazing. I had it fully cleaned last year and listen to it every morning announcing the time and quarter-hour. I am in awe of the talent and patience to do this kind of work.
when it moves for the very 1st time, it's like a newborn 1st cry. It seems like a heart beating
I thought same bro⌚
Ok that's a bit too much.
damn u r right
My favorite part was the squishy squish, squishin' the letters/numbers.
My favorite part was the metal carving... So satisfying
:D
4:20
me toooooooooooooooo XD
9:39 The combined talents of the world's finest watch makers and several hundred hours of intense creativity. (Sells watch to Rodney Dangerfield's character in Caddy Shack.)
Wonderful craftsmanship and engineering, yet incredibly gaudy and unappealing to me.
I'll go so far as to call it ugly...
When all's said and done, what is a watch for? If its stated brief is to massage somebody's ego, then this is a great watch. If it's to tell time, well, I have a Casio that cost £35, and is still running on its original battery, though it is 10 years old. And although it gains a few seconds per day now, for the first year, it kept time within about a second and a half *_per week!!_* That may seem like an exaggerated claim - but it's true. The glass is scratched now, and the case also looks a bit graunched because I wear it while I'm working on cars, or in my workshop, so it needs replacing before too long - but for the price, I could buy a lot of them for the cost of the one in the video.
@@walkingarrow3244 I had a problem with mine. I found that I couldn't adjust it any more - the buttons got stiffer and stiffer to operate till they barely worked at all - which meant that every time I had to adjust for daylight saving, I had to take the back off and operate the switches manually. The buttons press in little brass contacts, so I bent them a bit to help make contact - but the repair didn't last long. Next time I had to take the back off, I discovered that the buttons simply didn't move, so they couldn't press on the brass contacts. I found that each button had a tiny C-clip on its shaft, so I took them off (without any of them springing away and getting lost - WOO HOO !!) and removed the buttons. The buttons have a head and a shaft (a bit like a tiny, thick-headed drawing pin), and I found an accumulation of compacted dust under the head of the button which prevented it from being pressed in. I cleaned it out, and the watch works like new again. The repair took less than an hour.
Pity I scratched up the glass so much - but I can still tell the time on it - and like I said - what is a watch for?
Poor people always have to put others down . Just because you can't afford it doesn't make it wrong .
@@SKBKER You didn't indicate who you were replying to, but what you said suggests it was addressed to me. I'm not in the billionaire bracket, but I'm not poor either. I have bought two things in my time that were considerably more expensive than a top-notch watch - but they were very practical things for two people who needed them. Instead of doing that, I could easily have bought a _very_ expensive watch, or a flashy car, but instead, I have a Casio and a 14 year old Citroen. I'm simply not impressed by "bling".
I was an engineer by profession, and admire fine engineering - but I wouldn't spend on a finely engineered solution if a much cheaper, cruder product would do the job just as well.
In the days when all watches were mechanical, I used to fix them as a paying hobby, and I still harbour an affection for time pieces (which is the reason I was looking at _this_ video), and I love the wooden clocks by Clayton Boyer, and have often thought of buying plans to make one. My brother used to fix watches too, and his admiration drove him to purchase a Rolex Oyster, and he was very proud of it till he was held up at gunpoint and had it stolen - but he had also come to the realisation that it didn't give him anything that a cheap, quartz watch would not give him - so that's what he got next.
I reiterate what I said - if you want to tell the time, get a watch for $100. It will do the job just great. If you want something to massage your ego - well, a $100 watch won't do that for you. It's all a case of what you expect to get from a watch.
I now know WHY this brand is worth 1 Million plus per copy...they are simply works of art. Simply jaw dropping. Thank you for posting.
Paintings have sold for over $200 million, and they just hang there. It's much easier for me to understand paying big art money for an item that DOES something. A watch like this one, or a 1933 Duesenberg II Boattail Speedster. I guess I'm just not sophisticated enough to appreciate paint on canvas.
Well try to sell a copy of same painting for $200 million. Wrist watches are not genuine works of art while paintings are. Quality over quantity.
I hate that they make such complex watches only with costly materials... Machines can do the same job!
Clay Loomis guess not, better step your game up.
Clay Loomis, if function matters the most, why not just buy a $50 watch that has far more functions than this and doesn't need to be maintained every couple of years? Or maybe just buy a smartphone and not have a watch at all?
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Well, I'd hardly call a Timex or a smartphone art.
Nice workmanship and all but I don't want a watch bigger than my fist on my wrist.
Bigger watch = Bigger dick
It is wonderful to see how the factory uses the most modern computerized tools and powerful computers to develop a fully mechanical watch, when the watch itself might as well be a computer instead of a lovely combination of gears.....
Yeah. Then it's assembled by a human.
I’ve been watching UA-cam for something like 15 years and that was one of the greatest videos I’ve seen. The craftsmanship is unbelievable. I’ll likely never own a Patek, but I’m a huge fan nonetheless.
9:12 Oh just any other expensive watch, *flips* watch.. holy mother of....
Seiko will mass produce a more accurate clone
but
it will look like it came out of a gumball machine
@@scotte2815 Seiko is a disgusting brand trying to leech
@@redsea1234 Seiko is a solid watch company that makes many fine watches. They make every part of all their watches. Rolex has always been the great pretender. Seiko's Spring Drive is the most unique and innovative there is BAR NONE!
@@redsea1234 Seiko is a many-faceted company. They produce lower-level quartz movements, cheaply, for mass-consumption. They also produce their Grand Seiko line which far outstrips most of their European counterparts. Scott E is absolutely correct about Seiko’s Spring Drive movement. Educate yourself a little more about watchmaking before making sophomoric comments.
@Pedro Ivan Sanchez What are you replying to? Seiko (or rather, Grand Seiko) produce very few watches in the $25K+ range, and those are limited editions. My daily beater watch is a Seiko King Turtle SRPE05. It costs around $450 and keeps decent time -5/+8 seconds/day, (close to COSC standards). If I want to wear an even more accurate watch at a low price, I’ll wear my Casio FW91 quartz digital watch. It set me back a whopping $13 on Amazon.
here is the real question, what kind of pencil sharpener is that at the start
That was Utterly.. Magnificent.. What a truly amazing piece of art. I would be humbled and honored to own one. Thank you for the design and build video. I have always been fascinated by timepieces.. especially in miniature,; enough to be able to work on mine own much less complex models and be able to handle repairs on common watches and clocks.. This piece is sooooooooooo far beyond that.. magic in motion, and of.... motion... all in perfect harmony... There was one thing missing besides HD 1080p for us to be able to even more clearly see all the amazing minute details.. I would have loved to have been able to hear all the chimes and gongs demonstrated... Hopefully one day.. I may be able to witness this moment of elegance performed in person. Just think... Clocks have been around for centuries.. All of that knowledge and experience passed down mostly by hand and now enhanced by computer technology... creating this most.. exceptional time piece. Thank you again and do have a Blessed Day.
Wow!.. I always had a lot of respect for Patek Phillipe and to me, along with Vacheron, were the very best of the best. But this gives me another take on watch making and the kind of craftmanship it takes to be where they are now.
These are awesome watches, 20 complications and a reversible watch, just amazing.
You know, for this being the most complicated watch being made, I kinda expected this in a higher resolution than 480p...
It could be to protect some fine propriety details.
@@Justin9503238275 You do that by blurring specific parts, not by making the entire video at a lower resolution lmao
ua-cam.com/video/P7Owr8YqiOY/v-deo.html Same video in 1080p
They put all the budget in the watch and they did not have enough remaining to get a better camera
Can't use higher in 2014 if I recall right.
I chopped off my 2 arms and legs, my testicles and also sold a kidney on the black market to afford this watch. I can't move anymore but it's a small compromise to be able to know what is the current moon phase since I'm a werewolf.
+Brawndo ja ja ja ooh shii
ahaha lol truuueee
+Brawndo hahhahahahahahahahjajaja
so how are you typing?
Speech to text with a Stephen Hawking V3
I bet that even I sell my whole body parts still I can't afford that watch 😂
It's not true, your body is far more complicated and costlier than this watch. In fact human body is miracle. If you can build a human body from scratch (not by se*) you will become god. And cost of making that body will be far more than million times the cost of this watch. Only building brain like a human brain will cost more than trillions of dollars still it won't be as perfect as yours or anyones.
@@mein3324 r/woosh
@@artemisfn5848 r/wooooooooooooooosh.
@@mein3324 bummerr
Me too but I think abot my friends bady parts
Wonderful to see bits of this process.
I wonder how high their failure rate is, in how many of those million-dollar watches go back for repair.
Sure Patek is among the absolut elite and great craftsmen, but with this many parts and the whole process involving so much human labor, you'd think it is inevitable.
That was one long commercial...
it can be forgiven because it was interesting as fuck.
it took time :3
imagine how hard they worked...and how much you'd spend just to avoid asking someone "what time is it?"...
You're so stupid I can't even
Hahaha
or you could just have an Iphone like the rest of the sane population of the world
Roobz Z well, if i have money to buy the watch, i'd rather buy an iphone, a watch can't call or text someone anyway... >_>
+Endly Anantha He's calling you stupid because you don't get that putting so much effort in a watch makes it a piece of art.. I'm pretty sure it's in a museum right now..
If we as humans are so sophisticated, imagine the one that created us.
Do what do you think we were created or evolved, if we were created, who? And can evolucion and the evolution of councious be repeated with a different spicies?
if everything need creator, who create the creator?!! your logic,lacks the logic!!
@@ahoorakia That Creator is God, so God doesn't need any creator to create him, if so he ain't God.... You're the one who lacks logic...
@@DontTapMyDP read what I wrote, understand it, then reply!!
@@ahoorakia well he gave you the sheer answer
i used to think expensive watches where dumb they still are you can do a lot more with a phone but the craftsman ship is incredible
What I'm actually interested in is that pencil sharpener. HOW DOE
Silicone Shart me too
Silicone Shart it's a lead sharpener and the lead is in a lead holder. When you spin it the lead and the sharpener inside move with each other and create a really fine point. Kinda like the old school sharpeners on the wall in school that you had to turn the handle but instead you're turning the lead holder. Lead is used instead of pencils because lead is harder so it keeps its point more for more precise lines. It's commonly used for design, drafting, and architecture. The more you know!
Silicone Shart
yea?
Silicone Shart m on
imagine if you sneezed
then youre fucked
+MyKillersquirrel or spntaneous Nosebleed
B4 sneeze comes turn ur face around
You would know it within few sec b4.
The brain gives signal
Thank you for your sneeze knowledge.....
+turbostewi "Now I remember..."
Great work .
Mechanical engineer ...🔥
Artist and cameraman are both legends...
is this watch more complicated than my girlfriend?
nice
Loving Uranus yes ..your woman is simple :3
One watch to rule them all
This is why I like mechanical watches. I love the beauty of steel and my favorite color is chrome. 😃😍
Anyone who can work on a watch is worth their weight in gold,fresh amazing !
the more I watch this the more I want a simpler $2 chinese digital watch
+outspolsis So true
+outspolsis aaaaaaaaaaaaaand you can collect them, as i do :D :P
+outspolsis got a 99% remake of the g-shock for like 10 bucks :D isnt that craftsmanship :D :D
+outspolsis lol made out of dog fur and slavery
China could clone it for $5 worth of raw materiel and sell it for $200
(Joke)
dacasman It's not that much of a joke considering the quality of fake Rolex watches coming out of china these days.
Leggo My Ego Yeah thats what I had in mind when I wrote that comment. I figured I would add (joke) so people didn't flame the hell out of me.
dacasman Maybe your right, some chinese fakes are so good you cant apart them from a real deal. haha, nice joke :D
dacasman Hahahaha, honestly i thought the same thing while watching the video.
But i do have new found respect for watches after watching this video.
Lmao
Wow! Unbelievable magnificent master-craftsmanship, there is nothing quite like an extremely well made, handcrafted timepiece. Just magnificent.
omg, i got goosebumps watching this. this is better than looking at any picaso or rembrant...this is the highest level of art and luxery. My grail watch...absolutely amazing!!!!
now i know why its expensive, its complicated, details, the pricision, skill, manufacturing, this is art of watch.
This guy in the beginning be like " Damn Im rich as fuck, time to buy a ridiculous watch because fuck humanity. "
if he is proper rich (not from government and not from using government guns to enforce monopoly) then it means he has given people a product or service they demanded and did it efficiently since in a competitive market you need to find algorithms to do the job more efficiently otherwise you can't compete with the next guy who does it better faster cheaper.
The money he receives for giving people a product or service they demand- the money he receives represents a surplus in the system that he has earned. If he wants to convert that surplus that his business achieved into buying a watch makers precious time then so be it. It isn't 'fucking humanity.' there are no victims in their trade.
It is government that fucks humanity
+Stephanie Weil The man at the beginning is Thierry Stern the CEO of Patek Philippe. The person who does the drawing is a female.
You're right. He was like "damn, I'm rich and bored as fuck, time to make a ridiculous watch because fuck humanity".
Keep your denim shirt on it's ok to be rich...
Except most are not "proper rich" they take advantage of others. For example the Wells Fargo scandal.
Your not paying for a watch...your paying for exceptional skill and talent on your wrist
My God man just sheer art at display.few could build to such precision like Patek
Best I can do is $5.
Hoang Duong just bought a casio for 18€
What a shame these technicians put themselves through knowingly waste time making watches when the best they can do when it comes to precision is worse than a quartz clock at the cost of ten dollar. More than 99.99% of their efforts goes to make a good look as if they all are homosexuals.
MrOperettalover Isn't all the jewelry and decoration merely for glamour and attractiveness rather than practicality or functionality?
Automatic watches are for the heritage and style
Most people don't wear a watch to tell the time anyways
Hoang Duong
That may be so, but as it seams these technicians are not adult enough to say all they do for a living is to decorate, but rather pretend they are making something useful which is simply not true.
The machine tools they have to machine the parts are pretty amazing.
That's right. The machining equipment and tooling alone is amazing. Some of the most precise instruments in the world, which allows them to create the most precise and complex watches in the world. Truly amazing.
That's not a watch. That's a piece of art that happens to tell you the time
I have a couple hobbies outside of weightlifting which doesn't really apply. But I like to rebuild and modify old motorcycles, and I love watches (collecting mainly, but would love to try my hand at the jewelry world some day). Anyways, everytime I get really frustrated with some bike part not working, syncing or just going together smoothly, it always chills me out a bit to think about how frustrating trying to put together (or fix for that matter) one of these crazy complicated automatic movements would be....
This guy has too much time on his hands..
+DanielVidz Haaaaaaaa
+DanielVidz nice
Really good one
this is gr8 banter
At first a passed over as I do most worthless comments, but then it hit me.
A like for you, sir!
Props to the watchmakers, but also the people filmed and edited this, goddamn that must have been a lot of work aswell.
Nothing beats the classic Casio
This also is a marvelous music score! Congratulations on that, as well!
Women are more complicated
will women make you feel better , that is why
That's obvious dude, even some of the simplest life form are probably more complicated than a watch made by us...
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The worst aspect of this watch is the double face - that's mickey-mouse gimmicky stuff to me. Nobody needs a watch that they can flip over to see another side, otherwise we'd all have two-faced watches. And if you are going to do this, the master craftsmanship would be in the size remaining the same. This thing is too chunky.
+Ronan Dee I don't think this watch is everyday-use watch, for e.g. it weighs 1KG
+Ronan Dee Nobody needs a watch at all.
Did you not see his white gloves. If you get one side dirty from not remembering to put your white gloves on, you always have the other side.
It was done so they could fit all the complications. It's more of an art piece than a watch...
+Ronan Dee
it would make sense.... if you could turn it whilst on your wrist.
it's a display piece luckily.
Me in ten year's time: "Hi jeweller, my watch needs servicing, how much will it cost?"
Jeweller: "Yes".
The first time I saw this video everything just started to make sense. It was then I realised that watchmaking was the thing I’ve been looking for my entire life. Currently in the process of applying to a school.
Good luck. I am a surgical specialist and my field generally has very small margins for error but my attendings would always tell us to move quicker, that we weren't "building a watch here". This is what is meant by that.
How could apple ever think of comparing their watch with this.. That's just upsetting!
Actually they did try to compare their smart watch with this time piece
Apple are the masters of advertising and promotion to make something average seem extraordinary since they know their customers are often very easy to fool.
Michael Parker says they guy from his apple computer.
sam3d I had a choice to get an Apple computer but decided to just burn £1000 and with the money left over could still buy a PC that's better than a Mac.
Michael Parker Buy a PC every 2 years or buy an Apple every 10 years? It's a not brainer!
Wow, so this is how my 20 dollar Casio is made.
you mean the graphing calculator? (even that is like 80 dollars)
Casio make digital watches too you know. I remember when digital watches were the height of desirability and had a price tag to match. Nowadays we have these supercomputer smartwatches on our wrists.
That Casio watch is legendary.
Casio hugely popular in 1980s and 1990s nostalgic aesthetic. Decline in analogue because they look antique old manual clocks, when Casio is digital automatic and has default features like backlight, alarm, stopwatch, timer, countdown and additional technologies in various models. Because the 21st century was peaking and it was a necessity to have binary digital dials because it look more to its age and the future was shaping in progress. 1970s the first digital watches were begin produced, around Mid decade Casiotron came out and it cost a fortune but models after were insanely cheap. Mid-late 90s I got my first interest in them.
I bought my first Casio in 1978, a wonderful LCD chrono.
I was just thinking about the design...before you make a component, A truly stunning work of art.
simplicity is the ultimate sophistication
The only problem is who in their right mind would wear it, I would just stare at it!! 🤩🥰
bozo the clown would cut your hand off for you to make a nice belt buckle. Niccce and shiiny.
ill give you 10 bucks for that
hahahah
I'll go $20
I'd buy that for a dollar...
taking a big risk here
$40 is my final offer!!!
the man who inveted this watch is one of the genius
I have 6 antique fobwatches from the late 1880s and another purchase of a fobwatch from 1855 all have solid silver case's the mechanical work is amazing for its time
That's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
Just look in the mirror :^)
i agree with you
Get some bro, then come back to this post :)
Not the most beautiful, but the most amazing
looks like not many things you saw in your life yet....
It's not that complicated see: he made it in 10 minutes...
9:59
+Lulink actually it was 7 years
Actually, 2 years. It took 7 years of development.
10:37 :3
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Once I learn how to have a steadier hand, I wanna start building tiny mechanical things like this. Maybe not as complex tho lol
In case you are wondering, this is the Patek Philippe Grand Master Chime, made in 7 models in 2014.
Dwarven craftsmanship at its finest.
Il
imagine if one of the tiny pieces fell on the floor!!! "F**k this, I"m outta here"!! lol
"Hey. what time is it?"
"2:43 and 21 seconds."
"Dude just round"
Stunning video with music to match!
This aint a watch. This a fucking artistic masterpiece.
its kinda sad that the mechanism is hidden :/
yeah, after all the plating and flare they add to the inside movement, and they cover it up with a bland off white color.. what a shame
Itd be better to have it with that skeleton look
Hello BRo The Back!? Which back? This watch has two faces!
DeadWolfQc Gamer
They should sell glass watches. Fibre glass, or something transparent anyways
Watches like this similar to a human bodies would you like walking around people can see your heart your kidneys, your liver your lungs all your organs same with watches ,the miracles that make your organs work is hidden and protected same with watches the components that make watches work should be also hidden and protected ...
The first to reproduce the “Antikithera”astronomical clock will make more millions. I can’t wait to see it, but I’m sure I can’t afford it. Please do a video on it for the masses like me to enjoy.
I can't imagine anyone watching this video and not respecting the intricate craftsmanship involved. This is nothing short of Art at its finest, a master piece in its own right. As someone who appreciates watches I felt a deep sense of emotional gratification watching this piece come together step by step. Bravo Patek! Unfortunately watchmaking like this is a dying art.
just why would they hide all those beauty inside...
Sam R.F. i was thinking the exact same thing
I felt like I needed to clap at the end
Beautiful movement. Beautifully made,let down by the design.
5:53 goes all out INSIDIOUS DEMON MODE
Do not play those guys in the game Operation!
"take out wrenched ankle"
+batvette or my personal fav, "take out humongous fungus"
OMG that's the funniest thing I've ever read. Especially after watching that guy assemble the watch. Nice one.
the moment I realizedIwas a watching a Patek Philippe being made I freaked the fuck out.
Yeah, I thought it was going to turn out to be a Casio.
Casio makes mechanical?
Ditto!!
I was 13 when i started to fix broken watches and its so satisfying to watch
A Total Masterwork, and truly inspiring to watch...