
Jake Day
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Jake Day
@LeftCoastSpeed
Do no harm. Take no shit. Husband. Dad-Guy. AnCap. Musician. Smartass. Hysterical Midwit. Gearhead. Motorcyclist.
Left Coast, USA शामिल हुए Kasım 2024
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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.
Daily Loud@DailyLoud
Jay-Z wore a Patek Philippe Grandmaster Chime at the Met Gala worth $6.5 million
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Just so we are all on the same page:
Illegals are voting.
Illegals are getting free food.
Illegals are getting free childcare.
Illegals are getting free education.
Illegals are getting free tax credits.
Illegals are getting free healthcare.
Illegals are getting free housing assistance.
Illegals are getting free legal representation.
Illegals are getting free mental health services.
Illegals are getting free college tuition in over a dozen states.
It is the most insane scam ever perpetrated on the American people.
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No he wouldn't. Charlie stopped that the second Trump got elected.
We already have the data on this. Charlie kissed Trump's ring 100% of the time.
Christy DeJonker 🇺🇸@twinautismmom
Charlie Kirk would be supporting Thomas Massie…
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@bgetsbetter @anarchoscc If he thinks that's a satanic star, wait until he sees the 6 pointed one.
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Should I make gear with a "satanic anarchy star" on the next run of @anarchoscc merch?
Some Guy@SmorglesBord
@bgetsbetter The guy with the satanic / anarchy star on his profile is worried about Christian people. Thanks man 👨🏾
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Amity Dolby, Cassie Clark, Amanda Griffiths on Are You Smarter Than A Politician? Gameshow x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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Ancaptim@ancaptim
Thomas Massie calling out AIPAC turned it into a full choir banger exposing how one lobby controls both parties and has co-opted the system on Capitol Hill. Red or blue, same donor contract. Follow the money and trace it back. Full lyrics in comments 👇 What do you think? 🎵 #AIPAC #ThomasMassie #FollowTheMoney #TuckerCarlson #Uniparty
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Netanyahu more popular in our country than Carlson, Mamdani, and Schumer
worldisraelnews.com/poll-netanyahu…
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