A Grand Complication: The Race to Build the World's Most Legendary Watch

摘要

In the quaint vernacular of horology, any feature of a watch beyond the simple tracking of hours, minutes, and seconds is a "complication." The pocket watch in question here-the Graves Supercomplica-tion, the Hope diamond of the watch world-had 24 complications, ranging from a stunning celestial chart representing the night sky over New York City to a Westminster carillon played out on five gongs. But just as intriguing as the engineering of the timepiece is the Jazz Age drama that led to its commissioning.