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Watches More Expensive Than A Ferrari
Lets be realistic here, the economy is in thecrapper and your
401k looks about as
arousing as you do after a cold shower.Whats a Burgundy
drinking, stache rocking,web surfing Internet denizen like you to
do?Diversify your skill set by ogling watchesyoull never be able to
afford and learningwhat makes them tick.
Most of these watches are more complicatedthan college calculus
and have more historythan you could learn in a lifetime. You
mighteven need an engineering degree and aninstructional tome to
figure out how theywork. Regardless, all these watches (for
onereason or another) are ridiculously cool andabsurdly expensive.
Sell the Ferrari, liquidate
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the stocks, and pick up one of these bad-asstimekeeping
devices.
The Patek Caliber 89 - $5,120,000
Buying this watch would require selling 3.5Bugatti Veyrons,
which happens to be 70% ofthe total number they sold in 2005.
The
closest most of us will ever get to a Veyron is
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drooling over it on Top Gear. Its all aboutperspective here
people. Three Veyrons. Sayit out loud Three. Veyrons. So what
makes
this watch worth $5.12mil? For starters, it isthe most
complicated watch on the planetwith 33 complications. Essentially,
it requiresa degree in mechanical engineering tounderstand, but
suffice it to say it haseverything but the kitchen sink. It also
tookmore time to design than you spent in
college (including those extra yearsstudying chemistry).
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Split Seconds Patek Philippe Reference1436 By Tiffany & Co.
$214,000
Its emblazoned with the Tiffany & Co. name,so you know its
gonna be expensive.Compared to the rest of the watches on thislist
though, its actually pretty cheap. Well,you know, if two-hundred
grand can ever beconsidered cheap. Youre getting the Patekand the
Tiffany names, what else could youwant? The ability to time two
events thatstart simultaneously but end at differenttimes you didnt
think those fancy bluehands were just for show did you?
Patek Philippe Ref 5016P $762,000
Rounding out the Patek trinity is the Ref5016P (The P stands for
platinum, duh). This
watch is the second most complicated
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wristwatch (the first one was a pocket watchso it doesnt count)
that Patek has produced.The problem with watches of this caliber
the
need for adjustments, but Patek has an appfor that. If you keep
this moon-phase,perpetual calendar, retrograde behemothrunning
continuously it wont need adjustinguntil 2100. Thats something your
childrenschildrens children will most certainlyappreciate.
The Breguet Marie Antoinette $XX,000,000
This watch was originally designed byBreguet himself and has
more pieces (823)
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than an iPhone. Its self winding, has aminute repeater,
perpetual calendar,equation of time, jumping hour, power
reserve indicator, and a bimetallicthermometer everything but
MMSmessaging. It took forty-four years for theoriginal to be
constructed and Breguet andMarie Antoinette both died before it
wascompleted. Ultimately, the original watchdisappeared, never to
be seen again. When
Swatch acquired Breguet, an Indiana Jonesstyle quest for the
watch began. When theycame up short they reproduced the watchusing
only the images of the original. Breguethas received offers in the
eight digit range,but still refuse to sell.
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Jaeger-LeCoultre Gyrotourbillon 1 $400,000
This watch is clearly complicated, but it has afeature some of
the others dont, a tourbillon.Whats a tourbillon? A wrist-mounted
anti-gravity device. Tourbillons (in the most basicterms) prevent
gravity from adverselyaffecting accuracy. Normal tourbillons
only
rock one-axis anti-gravity, this tourbillon
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rocks two. No word yet on when the third andfourth axis will be
integrated.
Rolex Submariner $234,000
At some point in time, everyone has held,worn, or owned a Rolex
Submariner. This oneis special because it was held, worn, andowned
by the one and only Steve McQueen.Thats right, the King of Cool
owned this
particular submersible, self-winding, stainlesssteel oyster
bracelet Rolex. Youre gettingtime, Rolex, and bona fide
badassery.
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Vacheron Tour de lIle $1,250,000
Vacheron is the oldest watch manufacturerstill in existence
since its inception in 1755.250+ years of history allows them to
makewatches that eclipse most others. The Tourde lIle has
tourbillon, two faces, and more
complications and parts than even theBreguet Marie Antoinette
(hopefully withoutthe beheading) making it the mostcomplicated
serial wrist watch ever made.Its worth JUST shy of a Veyron unless
youbuy used.
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AP Royal Oak Grande Complication $560,000
Audemars Piquet (thats where the AP comes
from obviously) does it again with the RoyalOak Grande
Complication. The GrandeComplication is another watch that has
aperpetual calendar accurate until long afteryou will no longer be
alive. It has a lot of thesame complications as the other
watches(minute repeater, split seconds chronograph,aforementioned
perpetual calendar) butpresents them in a way that doesnt require
athousand page instruction manual just toread. Real men dont use
instructionmanuals.
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Richard Mille Tourbillon $525,000
Look at it. It looks like a Rube Goldbergmachine had sex with
the Gugenheim andthe offspring was skeletonized. Quite a few of
these watches have modern elements, butnone of them have the
modern design thatthis watch does. Made of aluminum, titanium,and
awesome it would be the perfectcompliment for the new clear hood
you justput on the Ferrari.
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Ulysse Nardin Triplejack MinuteRepeater $340,000
It may be crazy, but this watch seems likeholds some deep, dark,
historical secret thatonly Nicolas Cage can uncover. But that
mayjust be the three Jacks hammering the bells
to separate the quarters from the minutes.Sure, its more
expensive than a Ferrari, butsomething about this watch just seems
a lotless complicated. Since when did you justwant to tell time
with your watch?
This is the point in the movie after the credits
roll where you get that wicked cameo thats
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sole purpose is to say thanks to anunderappreciated celebrity.
In this case, thestar is none other than Ben Clymer of
In case you havent heard of Hodinkee (forshame!), its a daily
collection of the mostinteresting and rare watches around the
world. Think Cool Material specifically gearedtowards vintage
and interesting time pieces.
It is said that those who dont knowhistory are condemned to
repeat it - andas any history buff can tell you, much ofhistory is
something you would NOT
want to repeat. However, many well-known historical facts are
myths, withno basis in fact. Here (and in the nextfew segments) are
20 of the mostcommon, which have misled andmisinformed people for
years, decades,or centuries.
If more people knew the facts, a few ofthe great history-makers
would berecognised (anyone heard of UbIwerks?), some famous people
wouldstop taking so much credit, and wewould stop blaming apples
for
everything! Lets start with thefollowing misconceptions
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20. Eve ate a bad apple
An apple a day might keep the doctoraway, but they have still
had badpublicity as the forbidden fruit thatEve tasted in the
Garden of Eden,thereby making life difficult for all of us.Yet
nowhere in the biblical story ofAdam and Eve is an apple mentioned.
It
is simply called the fruit of the treethat is in the middle of
the garden(Genesis 3:3). OK, it COULD have beenan apple, but it
might just as well havebeen an apricot, a mango, or any othersort
of fruit. For one thing, apples werenot nor ever was found in that
part of
the world..
19. Newton was hit by an apple
Apples continued to get bad press withthe famous story that
scientist Sir IsaacNewton was under a tree, minding hisown
business, when an apple fell on his
head. Just as well it provided him theinspiration for the laws
of gravity, orthe poor apple would never be forgiven!But while the
falling apple is a goodstory, it probably never happened. Thestory
was first published in an essay byVoltaire, long after Newtons
death.
Before that, Newtons niece, Catherine
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Conduitt, was the only person who evertold the story. It was
almost certainly aninvention.
18. Walt Disney drew Mickey Mouse
One of the worlds most famousfictitious characters, Mickey
Mouse, iscredited to Walt Disney. However,Mickey was the vision of
Disneysnumber one animator, Ub Iwerks.
Disney, never a great artist, wouldalways have trouble drawing
thecharacter who made him famous.Fortunately for him, Iwerks was
knownas the fastest animator in the business.He single-handedly
animated Mickeysfirst short film, Plane Crazy (1928), in
only two weeks. (Thats 700 drawings aday.) But give some credit
to Disney -when sound films began later that year,he played Mickeys
voice.
17. Marie Antoinette said Let themeach cake
In 1766, Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote ofan incident he recalled
from some 25years earlier, in which a greatprincess (name unknown)
was told thatthe country people had no bread. Thenlet them eat
cake, she replied. WhenRousseau wrote of this, Marie
Antoinette was an 11-year-old child in
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Austria. The French Revolution wouldnot begin for another 23
years. Themyth that she spoke these infamous
words was probably spread byrevolutionary propagandists,
toillustrate her cold indifference to theplight of the French
people.
In the next chapter of this list, weuncover a tall tale about
Napoleon, andfind out how witches did NOT die,whatever you might
have heard
16. The Great Train Robbery was thefirst feature film
When it was released in 1903, TheGreat Train Robbery pioneered
several
techniques, includes jump cuts, mediumclose-ups and a complex
storyline. Butthe first feature film? It was only tenminutes long!
Even most short films arelonger than that. The first feature-length
film was a 100-minute Australianfilm, The Story of the Kelly
Gang,
released three years later. Even if youthink of a feature film
as the featureof a cinema program, the title would goto one of a
number of French films madeduring the 1890s (but I wont name one,as
that could cause any number ofarguments).
15. Van Gogh sliced off his ear
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Van Gogh is known as the archetypalstarving artist, only selling
one paintingin his lifetime, and - in a quarrel with
Gauguin - slicing off his ear, not longbefore committing
suicide. Though hedid face a tragic end, and his ownpaintings sold
poorly, it is worth notingthat he spent most of his life
teachingand dealing art. He only spent eightyears of his life
painting, which helps to
explain why he didnt starve to death.Also, he didnt slice off
his entire ear,just a portion of his left lobe. Painful,but not
nearly as bad as you might havethought.
14. Witches were burned at stake inSalem
The Salem (Massachusetts) witch trialsof 1692 led to the arrests
of 150 people,of whom 31 were tried and 20 wereexecuted. But just
as these trials werebased on ignorance, there are
manymisconceptions about them. For
starters, the 31 condemned witcheswere not all women. Six of
them weremen. Also, they were not burned atstake. As any
witch-hunter would know,a true witch could never be killed bythis
method. Hanging was the usualmethod - though one was crushed to
death under heavy stones.
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13. Napoleon was a little corporal
Some people believe that Napoleonsdomineering ambitions were
tocompensate for being so physicallysmall. Not so. True, Napoleon
was calledLe Petit Corporal (The Little Corporal),but he was 5
feet, 7 inches tall - tallerthan the average
eighteenth-centuryFrenchman. So why the nickname? Earlyin his
military career, soldiers used it tomock his relatively low rank.
The namestuck, even as he became ruler ofFrance.
12. King John signed the Magna Carta
The Magna Carta (Great Charter) is
known as a landmark in history, limitingthe power of the King of
England andsowing the seeds of democracy.Paintings show King John
reluctantlysigning the Magna Carta in a meadow atRunnymede in 1215.
Fair enough,except for one thing. As well as being a
rogue, John was probably illiterate. Asanyone could see from
looking at one ofthe four original Magna Cartas inexistence, he
simply provided the royalseal. No signature required.
11. Walter Raleigh introduced potatoesand tobacco to England
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Sir Walter Raleigh - explorer, courtier,privateer - Is one of
greatest mythfigures ever to come from England.
Virtually every reason for his fame isuntrue. Was he handsome?
According towritten accounts, he was no oil painting- though
somehow he charmed QueenElizabeth I, and had a reputation as
aladies man. Did he lay his cloak acrossa puddle so that the Queen
could step
on it? No, that was pure fiction. Mostimportantly, he didnt
return from hisvisit to the New World (America) withEnglands first
potatoes and tobacco.Though Raleigh is said to haveintroduced
potatoes in 1586, they werefirst grown in Italy in 1585, and
quickly
spread throughout Europe (even acrossthe English Channel). Also,
thoughpeople all over Europe blame Sir Walterfor their cigarette
addictions, Jean Nicot(for whom nicotine is named)
introducedtobacco to France in 1560. Tobaccospread to England from
France, not the
New World.10. Magellan circumnavigated the world
Everyone knows two things aboutPortuguese explorer
FerdinandMagellan. One, he was the first man tocircumnavigate the
world; and two,
during this historic trip, he was killed by
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natives in the Philippines. Of course,those two things tend to
contradict eachother. Magellan only made it half-way
around the world, leaving it to hissecond-in-command, Juan
SebastianElcano, to complete thecircumnavigation.
9. Nero fiddled while Rome burned
We all know the story of mad Emperor
Nero starting the Great Fire of Rome in64 AD, then fiddling
while the cityburned. However, this would have beenimpossible. For
one thing, the violinwouldnt be invented for another 1,600years.
OK, some versions of the storysuggest that he played a lute or a
lyre -
but then, scholars place the emperor inhis villa at Antium, 30
miles away, whenthe fire began. Though he was innocentof this
disaster, however, there is muchevidence to show that he was
ruthlessand depraved.
8. Captain Cook discovered Australia
Many Australians will agree that thisisnt so - but for the wrong
reasons.They will point out that, many yearsbefore Cook arrived in
Sydney in 1770,Australia had already been visited byDutchmen Abel
Tasman and Dirk
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Hartog, and an English buccaneer,William Dampier. Of course, it
had beenpreviously been discovered some 50,000
years earlier by the indigenousAustralians.
But in fairness to Cook, he did discovera new part of the
country - and moreimportantly, this led to the first whitesettlers
(an opportunity that Tasman,Hartog and Dampier didnt take). Solets
say that Cook DID discoverAustralia! Fine, but Cook was actually
aLieutenant when he sailed to the GreatSouth Land. The captain rank
mightbe a minor point, but its certainlyinaccurate - and as he is
called CaptainCook so often that it might as well behis name, its
one worth correcting.
7. Shakespeare wrote the story ofHamlet
William Shakespeare is generally knownas the greatest playwright
who ever
lived, even though most of his playswere not original, but
adaptations ofearlier stories. The Tragedy of Hamlet,Prince of
Denmark (1603), probably hismost famous play, was based on
anancient Scandinavian story. But while itmight not have been the
originalversion of the story, we can safelyassume it was the
best.
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6. America became independent on July4, 1776
Hold the fireworks! As most Americanschool children (and many
non-American ones) are aware, Americasfounding fathers signed the
Declarationof Independence on July 4, 1776.However, the war raged
for another
seven years before independence fromEngland was finally granted
onSeptember 3, 1783. On that day,Britains George III and US
leaderssigned the Definitive Treaty of Peace.
5. Edison invented the electric light
Thomas Edison is known as the worldsgreatest inventor. His
record output -1,093 patents - still amazes us, over acentury
later. Astonishing, except forone thing: he didnt invent most
ofthem. Most Edison inventions were thework of his unsung
technicians - and his
most famous invention, the electriclight, didnt even belong to
hislaboratory. Four decades before Edisonwas born, English
scientist Sir HumphryDavy invented arc lighting (using acarbon
filament). For many years,numerous innovators would improve on
Davys model. The only problem: nonecould glow for more than
twelve hours
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before the filament broke. Theachievement of Edisons lab was to
findthe right filament that would burn for
days on end. A major achievement, butnot the first.
4. Columbus proved that the Earth wasround
It was American author WashingtonIrving, some 500 years after
Columbus
sailed to America, who first portrayedthe Italian explorer as
launching on hisvoyage to prove that the Earth wasround, defying
the common, flat-eartherbelief of the time. In fact, mosteducated
Europeans in Columbuss dayknew that the world was round. Since
the fourth century BC, almost nobodyhas believed that the Earth
is flat. Evenif that wasnt the case, Columbus wouldnever have set
out to prove that theEarth was round simply because hedidnt believe
it himself! Columbusthought that the Earth was pear-
shaped. He set sail to prove somethingelse: that Asia was much
closer thananyone thought. Even in this, he waswrong. To further
besmirch his memory,it should also be noted that he never setfoot
on mainland America. The closesthe came was the Bahamas. Pear-
shaped, indeed!
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3. Gandhi liberated India
To westerners, Mahatma Gandhi iseasily the most famous leader of
Indiasindependence movement. He deservescredit for promoting the
ancient idealsof ahimsa (non-violence) . However,most historians
agree that Indianindependence was inevitable. Gandhiwas just one of
several independenceleaders. The Indian National Congresswas
founded as early as 1885, when hewas only 16. Gandhis
much-publicisedcivil disobedience was only a small partin the
movement, and some historianseven suggest that India would
haveachieved independence sooner if theyhad focused on the more
forcefulmethods that they had used 50 yearsearlier, and which were
still advocatedby other independence leaders, such asGandhis rival
Netaji Chandra Bose (whois also revered in India)..
2. Jesus was born on December 25
Christmas is meant to celebrate thebirth of Jesus, but there is
no evidencewhatsoever, biblical or otherwise, thatHe was actually
born on that day. Nor isthere anything to suggest that He wasborn
in a manger, or that there werethree wise men (although, as
anynativity play will remind you, three gifts
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were mentioned). There are differingviews as to why December 25
waschosen as Christmas day, but one of the
most interesting is that the day wasalready celebrated by
followers ofMithras, the central god of a Hellenisticcult that
developed in the EasternMediterranean around 100 BC. Thefollowers
of this faith believed thatMithras was born of a virgin on 25
December, and that his birth wasattended by shepherds
Which brings us to the number onehistorical myth - something
that isdrilled into the heads of nearly allAmerican
schoolchildren
1. George Washington was Americasfirst President
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Everyone knows that Washington wasthe first of the (so far) 43
Presidents ofthe US. However, this isnt strictly the
case. During the American Revolution,the Continental Congress
(or the UnitedStates in Congress Assembled) chosePeyton Randolph as
the first President.Under Randolph, one of their firstmoves was to
create the ContinentalArmy (in defence against Britain),
appointing General Washington as itscommander. Randolph was
succeeded in1781 by John Hancock, who presidedover independence
from Great Britain(see myth #6). After Washingtondefeated the
British at the Battle ofYorktown, Hancock sent him a note of
congratulations. Washingtons replywas addressed to The President
of theUnited States. Eight years later, as arevered war hero,
Washington himselfbecame Americas first popularlyelected President
- but strictlyspeaking, the FIFTEENTH President!
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