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“my last name...Churchill....my family owns this place” Damnnn 😭

A standard Rolex has about 200 moving parts. The Patek Philippe on Jay-Z's wrist at the Met Gala has 1,580. Patek spent 8 years designing it. Then over 100,000 hours building the first one. About 11 straight years of someone working 24 hours a day, no breaks. It's called the Grandmaster Chime, the most complicated wristwatch Patek has ever made. The inner mechanism alone has 1,366 parts. It fits in a circle smaller than an Oreo cookie. The outer case adds another 214 parts, and the case alone took four years to design. In watchmaking, a "complication" is just any function beyond telling you the time. Most watches in the "grand complication" category have 5 to 7. This one has 20. When it launched, no wristwatch in history had combined that many. It tracks the phase of the moon, accurate to one day's drift over 122 years. It also has five different ways to chime: one that automatically rings the hours and quarters, one that rings only the quarters, one you press a button to hear the current time, one that rings whatever alarm time you set, and one that chimes today's date on demand. The last two had never existed in any watch before. Both were invented by Patek's own president, Thierry Stern, a trained watchmaker himself. The chiming makes this watch nearly impossible to copy. Inside each one are tiny coiled steel wires called gongs. A single watchmaker shapes and tunes each gong by hand, testing every note with their own ears. Just putting one chime mechanism together takes 200 to 300 hours. Then the watch goes into a soundproof chamber where the chime gets recorded and compared against decades of past Patek chimes. Only then is it brought to Thierry Stern. He listens. If he doesn't like the sound, the watch goes back. Sometimes more than once. A rejected watch can take 500 hours of rebuilding before he approves it. This watch holds four power springs in total. One is dedicated to the chimes alone, separate from the spring driving the time. Inside the mechanism is a ball bearing 7.2mm wide. It holds seven steel balls, each 0.3mm across, smaller than grains of fine sand. They handle 1,700 gram-millimetres of twisting force from the chime springs without slipping. The case has 11 holes drilled through it for buttons and pushers, and somehow none of them ruin the chamber that lets the chimes ring out clearly. The case itself flips around to show either of its two different dials. Fewer than five workshops on the planet can build something at this level. Patek Philippe is the one all the others measure themselves against. Jay-Z's version lists at $6.5 million. The unique steel version sold for $31 million at Christie's in 2019. It still holds the record for the most expensive watch ever sold at auction.

People who are usually private and reserved, even with their friends, end up sharing all manner of personal details on a long flight with a stranger they will never meet again.

@Mericamemed This may be one of my favorite segments to come from this street interview shit. 😂😂

This Ethiopian boy is very creative, he will go places with his craft.

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Plagiat ou hommage ? 😂

I love cars but let's be honest lol, there is absolutely nothing that comes close to this

Un ivoirien concentré. Le pays peut être fier de toi.

Some fields work in theory but not in practice. Some fields work in practice but not theory. The uniqueness of economics is that it works in neither theory nor practice.

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@kleinorklayne Difficile de maintenir un site ici, par contre les prix ça pourrait être intéressant oui. Sinon je me demande souvent si le consommateur est vraiment prêt à dépenser plus pour un article parce que les charges pour lui vendre le produit sont plus élevées

J’aime bien les marques Gabonaises mais tu veux acheter un article , y a pas de site dédié, si ils ont une page instagram y a pas de catalogue de modèle et de prix . Ça décourage tellement.

Fallait vraiment être là

Le titre « Joli » de Zed est certifié Single Diamant ! 💎 50 000 000 équivalents streams 🎧 Bravo ! 👏

Ne pas avoir l’argent c’est dur inh

Between Goku and Guts, one is the storyline (1st saiyan transformation) and the other is the sheer beauty of the drawing tho the story isn’t half bad in itself

Over a million stitches. The Visions Adrift Jeans are available now.

Addiction is proof that you are capable of intense devotion. You just have a false god