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Business Insider UK
Published on Nov 7, 2017
The Astronomia Sky is a £538,000 watch made by luxury watch brand Jacob & Co.
With only 18 being produced worldwide and costing more than half a million pounds, it's a very rare and expensive watch - so what makes it so special?
Jacob and Co watchmaker, Luca Soprana says: "The Astronomia is a very, very delicate piece. Every component needs to be perfectly balanced so we need to use very special materials - like titanium - that are very delicate. The idea is really to come with a watch that is three dimensional and the watch has to be spectacular."
"What really makes the piece special is really the technique. The complexity of how it works, and to have an equilibrium of all the components."
The face of the watch has a small star map, replicating the rotation of the celestial stars. It's an impressive looking watch, but at £538,000 it's ridiculously expensive. Would you buy one?
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matt819
(10,749 posts)Does it tell time?
What the fuck time is it?
Price aside, if it's so delicate, who's going to use it?
Maybe my response is the reason we can't have nice things, but I just don't see the point.
Yes.
Not sure.
Don't know, dont care.
I like that intricate mechanical things like this exist. I think it might be similar to how some people appreciate art or music, but I don't really know. "Poems are made by fools like me", and all that jazz.
Anyway, I totally get that it doesn't appeal to everybody and that's cool, too.
Peace.
Sneederbunk
(14,319 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,985 posts)It's kind of nifty as sparkly baubles go, but it looks big and clunky, meaning it would be way too easy to bang it into something if you actually wore it. I'd probably break the damn thing within a week.
DFW
(54,506 posts)I'd expect the thing to be able to take me to the cosmos and back. Warp 5, Mr. Sulu.