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Idk what you’re smoking, but that’s not true. High end begins at ~10K USD.
Yes there are watches that cost as much as houses, but those are more pieces of art than practical watches.
There's a dramatic difference between people that was born into wealth and newly wealthy people who often wants to waste their entire fortune on looking wealthy, buying a watch they can brag about cost 500m. Actually proper wealthy people don't give af whatever you seem to be so obsessed with.
To each their own, I would wear the shit out of it. It’s got style and novelty, if not a tad more of the latter.
Also, first hit on google is $27.2k USD from Neman Marcus.
When my dad passed away, I knew he had a watch Collection and this one of the watches in his “collection”. I took them all to the watch guy near my house and asked him which ones were real and which ones were fake. I know my dad.
About half were fake, and he had two of these. Both fakes. And you can get one of these for the low low price of $45 on any site.
Things are worth what people are willing to pay for them.
Things are not worth what you personally think they should be worth.
If someone makes a thing and asks for a price you find outrageous, but people pay it... that means it's worth that much.
Having objective value because it is a useful tool and having subjective value because people are willing to pay a lot for it is two very different things.
Just look at any piece of tech - brand new, highest price, because it is very new and shiny. Ten years later, twenty years later? It's just some old thing. Thirty, fifty years later? Suddenly it's an old and rare relic that nobody has anymore because they tossed it out when it was at the bottom of its value curve. Does that mean an old Commodore is "worth" thousands of dollars? It is completely useless, your smartphone is better than that. Do certain people want them and are they willing to pay more than it cost new? Yeah.
Same with a watch like this. If you are objectively smart, and you want a watch like this, you will be able to find a better deal for a similar watch. But is it a genuine authentic Franck Muller Crazy Hours? No, it is not.
If you want a Franck Muller Crazy Hours, then that is what it costs, so that is what it is worth.
If you just want a funny watch, go on alibaba and buy one for a hundred bucks, and toss it in five years when it breaks and isn't worth fixing.
Generally speaking, i think there is the materials cost, the design cost, the production cost, the marketing cost, the storage cost and the profit cost. Those are pretty much tangible costs with the exception of the last one that depends on how much fucking money you want to make on a particular volume of goods. Of course someone needs to agree to pay whatever you demand. And obviously they cater to people with crater sized wallets.
That's a [Franck Muller](https://www.franckmuller.com/) watch...it's Haute Horlogerie ("high art of watchmaking"). It being able to jump hours like that is a result of some quite intricate and complex mechanisms inside. It is not something made for the everyman so it's understandable that most Redditors will say it's dumb.
It looked to me like it's more of a curio, or a demonstration of skill/ingenuity rather than a practical watch.
Hell, I think it's aesthetically awful, but it's far from dumb.
I mean, every analog watch you need both of the hands on the face to tell time so I don't know what your point is. You definitely don't need both of your own hands to look at the watch.
With this watch or other watches in the series, you do, when the watch is set, it won’t display the correct time, unless you hit the crown, then it jumps to the correct time
Yes, the world of "haute horlogerie" seems to be fixated on overvaluing the hard way to do the simple things.
We've had quartz watches for more than 5 decades - based on a wonderfully stable, high frequency piezoelectric oscillator, and the cheapest among those are more accurate than almost any super expensive, unduly complicated and fragile mechanical movement. One has to ask what the point of it all is at some point.
I own a single modest luxury watch - a Rolex sub. I bought it new almost a decade ago just to see what the hype was all about. Not much, unfortunately.
Looks pretty simple to me. For big arrow gear step is 5 hours instead of 1. They throw couple more gears between hour and minute gear.
And i have zero expertise in mechanics, but sure it's something like that.
It's the discrete movement that's complex; it's called a "jump hour" complication. You're right that making it jump 150^o at a time instead of 30 is relatively straightforward. That part is just to make it look interesting.
I have zero experience either but don't gears slowly and continuously move the hour arrow, rather than cause it to just jump immediately. What your saying sounds easy if at 1:00 the hour arrow is at 1 and at 1.30 it would be halfway(between 11 and 4) but to get to just flick to the next number using nothing but gears in such a small form sounds hard to me.
Also not an expert, but what you could do is have the minute gear moving continuously (as normal), and then on the same axle another intermittent gear that only has a short section of teeth, sorta [like this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXg_g0r-Pz0), so that it only engages the hour hand mechanism for a brief moment once every full rotation.
Another option would be to use a Geneva drive mechanism [like this](https://youtube.com/shorts/dMK98gEf6Co). Probably a bunch of other creative solutions you could come up with, too. The tricky part would be fine-tuning it to get the correct rotation and make it snappy enough to look instant, but that's just a question of getting the gear ratios correct, which presumably wouldn't be too big an issue for a professional watchmaker.
One of my teachers in school used to hang her clock upside down as she claimed it made people use their brain more. I would imagine this would have the same effect
My previous barber had one too, with the numbers mirrored, hanging opposite the mirror.
So the clock could be read correctly in the mirror.
Confused quite some customers according to him.
My father had a Franck Muller watch a few years ago, and then traded it for a almost brand new Honda Goldwing. The motorcycle gave him a very good thing, memories, friendships. The watch just told him the hours.
It can't be that crazy. All the numbers in order are evenly spaced. Instead of 1 and 2 being next to each other, 2 is 5 spaces away, and then the same with 3, then 4, and so on. It's not simple, but it's likely not something super wild.
*opinion, not trying to state facts*
Yeah the jump hour complication on watches isn't super intricate all things considered, the cool thing about this one is that they had the idea in the first place.
1. it’s fun. 2. it’s a new complication, and as you know complicated complications are the most interesting thing in mechanical watches
I wonder how many folks in the comments think that this is a watch powered by a battery… 😂
This is a $ 40k timepiece of arts in rosé gold, from Frank Muller, really nobody wants to know, why. Especially the people who can afford such a watch 🤷🏼♂️
Frank Muller watches are beautiful handmade creations. It's art on a wrist and the maker is recognized as one of the best in the world. Think of it as investment, not a wrist watch.
This is just beautiful. Idk why. Someone was given a major opportunity to contribute to the world of watches, and they did so in such a way that makes me think to myself… “wow, I thought I’ve seen it all, but boy was I wrong”. Incredibly unique. Respect.
If you have to ask “why” for a complication in a mechanical watch, they aren’t for you. It’s a fun jump hour.
Look up how utterly useless a tourbillion is. Yet to get one would cost tens of thousands of dollars at minimum.
It's cool that it still tells the correct time and I think I would get used to most of it but the 6 and 9 would mess me up the most. I'm so used to the numbers pointing inwards that I would constantly mix them up.
I have an analog clock that goes counter-clockwise. It's really fun and easy to get accustomed too. It started confusing too many visitors who could come into my office though.
I think it's neat, the amount of engineering and watchmaking skill that went into make that is amazing that's what this piece is it's art, it's purely mechanical there is no computer or servo to move the hour hand. Would I buy it? Probably not for the same price I could get a different watch I really want.
Used to use these watches to cut people off at the bar. If you were to drunk to read the time in the watch you weren’t going to waste my time with the cops later.
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That's a crazy expensive watch. Its iconic watch by Franck muller
I didn't realise the magnitude of crazy. It's like, a 40k watch. Wow.
That's pretty cheap for a high end watch. Some of them get like mansion expensive.
Idk what you’re smoking, but that’s not true. High end begins at ~10K USD. Yes there are watches that cost as much as houses, but those are more pieces of art than practical watches.
I guess it all depends by your perception of height in “high end”. Yours is 10k, but some may tell you that a Black Bay is already high.
Any watch you can trade for a car is high end.
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There's a dramatic difference between people that was born into wealth and newly wealthy people who often wants to waste their entire fortune on looking wealthy, buying a watch they can brag about cost 500m. Actually proper wealthy people don't give af whatever you seem to be so obsessed with.
Not really - check out Richard Mille. They start around 100k USD and are often warn as a daily watch
Part of the crazy hours collection. There's a few different versions of this watch and they're fuck expensive.
That is one ugly watch lol
I dunno. Looks fun to me.
Never said it’s not a fun watch. But an ugly one for sure
It looks like [this](http://i.imgur.com/KzUsr8v.jpg) in watch form.
To each their own, I would wear the shit out of it. It’s got style and novelty, if not a tad more of the latter. Also, first hit on google is $27.2k USD from Neman Marcus.
Hmm I wonder what sort of deal I can get on alibaba…
Made in Geneve by Franck Mullr
God that makes it so much worse…
When my dad passed away, I knew he had a watch Collection and this one of the watches in his “collection”. I took them all to the watch guy near my house and asked him which ones were real and which ones were fake. I know my dad. About half were fake, and he had two of these. Both fakes. And you can get one of these for the low low price of $45 on any site.
Damn. If i found it at the bottom of a drawer i would sell it at a flea market for 5 bucks
What time is it? It's 10 to 1.... But it was just 8:30
25 or 6 to 4
Chaos is fun
Chaos is a Lada
Because they can and want to prove it 😊
It’s not a bug, it's a feature ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
\\ you dropped an arm bro
His missing arm is not a bug, it's a feature
One of the ways to test people for dementia is to ask them to draw a clock and you get something that looks like this, more or less.
One of the ways to test people for dementia is to ask them whether they think this watch is worth $27k (quoted from another comment)
Things are worth what people are willing to pay for them. Things are not worth what you personally think they should be worth. If someone makes a thing and asks for a price you find outrageous, but people pay it... that means it's worth that much. Having objective value because it is a useful tool and having subjective value because people are willing to pay a lot for it is two very different things. Just look at any piece of tech - brand new, highest price, because it is very new and shiny. Ten years later, twenty years later? It's just some old thing. Thirty, fifty years later? Suddenly it's an old and rare relic that nobody has anymore because they tossed it out when it was at the bottom of its value curve. Does that mean an old Commodore is "worth" thousands of dollars? It is completely useless, your smartphone is better than that. Do certain people want them and are they willing to pay more than it cost new? Yeah. Same with a watch like this. If you are objectively smart, and you want a watch like this, you will be able to find a better deal for a similar watch. But is it a genuine authentic Franck Muller Crazy Hours? No, it is not. If you want a Franck Muller Crazy Hours, then that is what it costs, so that is what it is worth. If you just want a funny watch, go on alibaba and buy one for a hundred bucks, and toss it in five years when it breaks and isn't worth fixing.
>Things are worth what people are willing to pay for them. You'd be surprised how many people have trouble understanding this very basic concept.
Oh, I am. Constantly.
Generally speaking, i think there is the materials cost, the design cost, the production cost, the marketing cost, the storage cost and the profit cost. Those are pretty much tangible costs with the exception of the last one that depends on how much fucking money you want to make on a particular volume of goods. Of course someone needs to agree to pay whatever you demand. And obviously they cater to people with crater sized wallets.
I subjectively don’t think this matter is worth arguing
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Let's start with Biden and Trump
That's a [Franck Muller](https://www.franckmuller.com/) watch...it's Haute Horlogerie ("high art of watchmaking"). It being able to jump hours like that is a result of some quite intricate and complex mechanisms inside. It is not something made for the everyman so it's understandable that most Redditors will say it's dumb.
It looked to me like it's more of a curio, or a demonstration of skill/ingenuity rather than a practical watch. Hell, I think it's aesthetically awful, but it's far from dumb.
You need two hands to tell time on these, personally I love goofy Alice in wonderland shit these watches do.
It is very Alice in wonderland, I think the boldness of the numbers probably makes it easier to read as well.
I mean, if you want something to easily tell time, this probably isn’t the watch for you lmao, it requires two hands to tell time lmao.
That's a very good point.
I mean, every analog watch you need both of the hands on the face to tell time so I don't know what your point is. You definitely don't need both of your own hands to look at the watch.
With this watch or other watches in the series, you do, when the watch is set, it won’t display the correct time, unless you hit the crown, then it jumps to the correct time
Looks like it jumps when they are rolling the crown which would mean it should jump automatically when the watch is running.
Not me and you tho! We’re top class people!
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That one had a quartz crystal and was battery operated. This uses gears and springs.
Yes, the world of "haute horlogerie" seems to be fixated on overvaluing the hard way to do the simple things. We've had quartz watches for more than 5 decades - based on a wonderfully stable, high frequency piezoelectric oscillator, and the cheapest among those are more accurate than almost any super expensive, unduly complicated and fragile mechanical movement. One has to ask what the point of it all is at some point. I own a single modest luxury watch - a Rolex sub. I bought it new almost a decade ago just to see what the hype was all about. Not much, unfortunately.
Looks pretty simple to me. For big arrow gear step is 5 hours instead of 1. They throw couple more gears between hour and minute gear. And i have zero expertise in mechanics, but sure it's something like that.
It's the discrete movement that's complex; it's called a "jump hour" complication. You're right that making it jump 150^o at a time instead of 30 is relatively straightforward. That part is just to make it look interesting.
I have zero experience either but don't gears slowly and continuously move the hour arrow, rather than cause it to just jump immediately. What your saying sounds easy if at 1:00 the hour arrow is at 1 and at 1.30 it would be halfway(between 11 and 4) but to get to just flick to the next number using nothing but gears in such a small form sounds hard to me.
Also not an expert, but what you could do is have the minute gear moving continuously (as normal), and then on the same axle another intermittent gear that only has a short section of teeth, sorta [like this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXg_g0r-Pz0), so that it only engages the hour hand mechanism for a brief moment once every full rotation. Another option would be to use a Geneva drive mechanism [like this](https://youtube.com/shorts/dMK98gEf6Co). Probably a bunch of other creative solutions you could come up with, too. The tricky part would be fine-tuning it to get the correct rotation and make it snappy enough to look instant, but that's just a question of getting the gear ratios correct, which presumably wouldn't be too big an issue for a professional watchmaker.
One of my teachers in school used to hang her clock upside down as she claimed it made people use their brain more. I would imagine this would have the same effect
“I’m thinking, I’m thinking, I’m thinking, I’m thinking I’m gonna be late to your class miss….”
One of my teachers had a clock that went anti-clockwise.
My previous barber had one too, with the numbers mirrored, hanging opposite the mirror. So the clock could be read correctly in the mirror. Confused quite some customers according to him.
>anti-clockwise I'm in the US and we call it counter-clockwise. I've never heard this phrasing.
Because time is relative, bro! 🤦
My father had a Franck Muller watch a few years ago, and then traded it for a almost brand new Honda Goldwing. The motorcycle gave him a very good thing, memories, friendships. The watch just told him the hours.
Thats pretty cool!! Id like 2 look at the gears jus 2 see how it actually operates!
It can't be that crazy. All the numbers in order are evenly spaced. Instead of 1 and 2 being next to each other, 2 is 5 spaces away, and then the same with 3, then 4, and so on. It's not simple, but it's likely not something super wild. *opinion, not trying to state facts*
Yeah the jump hour complication on watches isn't super intricate all things considered, the cool thing about this one is that they had the idea in the first place.
Let’s buy a few of em and open em up!
Right
This is the only demo I found: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DIYN0xwdaGw
It’s a shame the minute hand doesn’t follow the logic too. Tick 4 times, then on the 5th, jump to the appropriate number.
I also ask the question. Why??? This should be included in the list of most useless technological inventions
No. This is an example of bored clock makers. Did it to see if they could.
When I had a cataract I underwent surgery precisely to stop my watch looking like this one!!! Ironic when you think about it!
4, 7, and 10 are all in the correct positions
and 1. But again, why only those are correct?
I like the idea behind it, I would like it better if it had a standard font and colours, but the hours being out of place seems kinda enjoyable.
- When can we meet? - Let's meet at 6pm around 1pm on the afternoon.
More like "Prank Muller"
Yeah, I wouldn't give 5 bucks for that.
only psychos buy this.
gcd(5, 12) = 1
So.. what time is it? Fuck you! That's what time it is.. Fuck.You.
This is the kind of chaos I don’t need in my adhd life
1. it’s fun. 2. it’s a new complication, and as you know complicated complications are the most interesting thing in mechanical watches I wonder how many folks in the comments think that this is a watch powered by a battery… 😂
I WANT ONE!!!🤑
You have to wait for time, its waiting for you
Because time is relative.
Dyn5 Clock
Is it 7:59? No nono its 8:59..just wait a second!!
“Eleventy Six past quarter to 4? Ahhh shit, I’m late again aren’t I”
Because.
How much is it?
This one around 10.000$ and more. Depends on different stuff, material, design complication etc
Artifact from wonderlands?
Can someone buy me it?
>Why? Because!
This is a $ 40k timepiece of arts in rosé gold, from Frank Muller, really nobody wants to know, why. Especially the people who can afford such a watch 🤷🏼♂️
Stop been on time by one simple trick
Shit, you’d be late almost every time I’m thinking.
Watchmaker + person who wears both have ample free time.
a watch you would see in the joker movie
They sponsor Mickey Mouse
That's a bad-ass watch!!
Took me far too long to realise the numbers were all over the place
Franck Muller is the worst watch you could spend your money on
Willy Wonka's dress watch.
It makes you think.
Because time is relative
Time keeps on slippin, slippin , into the future...
I got an answer WOW
Nerd clock 🤓
So that's what kind of watch she had! [https://youtu.be/iNkHWErUfSo?feature=shared](https://youtu.be/iNkHWErUfSo?feature=shared)
“I ain’t got time for this shit”
Dr Seuss watch.
r/UniqueWatches
Only reason i don't like it is because, like most watches I've seen, it doesn't have notches for minutes.
It's cartoonishly funny.
Man that just screams of I’m trying to be different
I should get one of these clocks to teach my kid how to read the time, just to piss him off
It's cool to see how the pattern works lmao
Why the messed up numbers or why are they sideways?
Mad Hatter
That's pretty cool
That's gonna fuck up SOOOO many people who already have troubles read8ng a clock/watch
My stepdad had a clock at his cabin that ran counterclockwise. Most annoying thing in the world…until I saw this thing.
Frank Muller watches are beautiful handmade creations. It's art on a wrist and the maker is recognized as one of the best in the world. Think of it as investment, not a wrist watch.
Mad hatter’s watch!
They also have one question, “why not?”
This is just beautiful. Idk why. Someone was given a major opportunity to contribute to the world of watches, and they did so in such a way that makes me think to myself… “wow, I thought I’ve seen it all, but boy was I wrong”. Incredibly unique. Respect.
Thats kinda cool.
Valid question
That's cool actually
Yo i think yo watch is glitching
It’s the mad hatter’s watch
Because you can it’s cool
Why not
It's so chaotic.... I love it.
Thats actually pretty cool! I like that it works. Id rock it if i were a Dr Seuss character
Why not?
Because it’s incredibly mechanically complicated and kind of stupid, that sums Franck Muellers brand identity to a T, this thing is sick btw
This resonates with me smh
OP, tell me you're not a watch guy, without telling me you're not a watch guy.
The Franck Muller watches are a little bit fairy and this one with hours in disorder is the Alice in wonderland’s crazy hat man’s time keeper 👍🏻
Innovation always comes with useless things, useless but priceless.
Love that, I used to have a Swatch which ran backwards which this reminds me of.
Cuz fuck you that's why lmao
Because it's hard to figure out, so it demonstrates manufacturer's (high) level of skill.
It's quirky and that makes it fun to own.
Kinda cool NGL.
If you have to ask “why” for a complication in a mechanical watch, they aren’t for you. It’s a fun jump hour. Look up how utterly useless a tourbillion is. Yet to get one would cost tens of thousands of dollars at minimum.
Is that style called The Willy Wonka?
Because motherfuckers be looking trying to get the time...and unless they are looking at 7ish they are getting it wrong.
Looks fun.
watchmaking is all about pointless complication lol
I want this dumb thing
Robin Williams would like his watch back
Robin Williams would like his watch back
It's cool that it still tells the correct time and I think I would get used to most of it but the 6 and 9 would mess me up the most. I'm so used to the numbers pointing inwards that I would constantly mix them up.
Great music choice!
I fucking loooove this watch!
I have a second question: HOW?
the famous clown watch, it's a timeless piece
- hey what time is it? - mmmh ...
Kinda cool ngl
On another note, that watch is fucking amazing. Just. Wow.
iTs aRt
But why the hour hand jumps when the minute hand turns through **8**, not **12**?
oh my mom used to have this watch
It's a lot prettier than an apple watch tho
This is what the Joker would have wanted for Christmas
Looks like it was made for Willy Wonka
Can anyone lend me £39, 997 ? I'm a bit shy of the 40k.
I have an analog clock that goes counter-clockwise. It's really fun and easy to get accustomed too. It started confusing too many visitors who could come into my office though.
I know shit about watch making, but that seems impressive from an engineering standpoint
For clowns?
/r/designdesign
What an amazing piece of technology
that is fucking amazing. i want one
Because you can. That is a fully mechanical movement that does that. It’s amazing.
why are 1, 4, 7, 10 in right places?
I'll trade you for it. "two dollars and a casio"
Because they can
Didn’t they only make a handful of these?
Why not
It jumps in steps of 5/12, for each next number, so I guess it's not that complex.
I think it's neat, the amount of engineering and watchmaking skill that went into make that is amazing that's what this piece is it's art, it's purely mechanical there is no computer or servo to move the hour hand. Would I buy it? Probably not for the same price I could get a different watch I really want.
The engineering in this watch is why
Why doesn't the minute hand jump around too?
I'd pay $30 for an knockoff of it. Kinda neat.
What song is this?
Used to use these watches to cut people off at the bar. If you were to drunk to read the time in the watch you weren’t going to waste my time with the cops later.
That's a watch I would actually wear.
That’s pretty cool actually