Chapter One $400k watch

The Chapter One watch from Maîtres du Temps is wonderfully intricate. It looks beautiful. It is a collaboration between famed watch designers Christophe Claret, Peter Speake-Marin and Roger Dubuis. It features a tourbillon, retrograde GMT and date indicators, rolling displays that show the day and moon phase, and a mono-pusher chronograph with a 60-minute totalizer.

It's also four hundred freakin' thousand dollars. And that's without a layer of Swarovski Crystals, also known as crushed glass. Way to price yourself out of even rich people's price range, guys.

Maitres du Temps [Official Site via DVICE]

[#1 posted by SamSam , June 20, 2008 9:12 AM]

Is the name a joke on Chapter 11 bankruptcy, or did they not even think of that?

[#2 posted by hemidemisemiquaver , June 20, 2008 5:32 PM]

Seems reasonable enough. They sell like 2 of these and make their money back.

[#3 posted by DMcK , June 23, 2008 10:32 AM]

Intricate it may be, but damn, that thing is freakin' hideous.

[#4 posted by Agent 86 , June 25, 2008 3:42 PM]

Can't wait for the $400 knock-off!