Slightly Used Bf
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Slightly Used Bf
@marcelares_
Friendly neighborhood boyfriend. Cracking up ribs with jokes brick by brick in bpm speed.
United States | Zurich Katılım Haziran 2024
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@anishmoonka As a mechanical engineer I’m not gonna believe this shit until we open up this mf watch
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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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@RT_com I know this shit mfs don’t read the Bible🤣
Cherubim and Seraphim
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Congresswoman Luna posts ‘OPHANIM’ right after Pentagon declassifies eerie 8-POINTED star UFO
Ophanim described as multi-eyed ANGELS in Dead Sea Scrolls
RT@RT_com
NEVER BEFORE SEEN Apollo 12 photo reveals 5 MYSTERIOUS glowing lights over Moon Astronauts captured bizarre bright anomalies straight from landing site
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Shit I told y’all we not alone. This universe is so vast the thought of being the only living ones is absurd
T R U T H P O L E@Truthpole
🚨 Breaking - This is from newly released Pentagon UFO Files What on Earth are we looking at here?
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@Yoda4ever Damn they can move this fast? I knew these mfs always pretending🤣
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Damn they can move this fast? I knew these mfs always pretending🤣
𝕐o̴g̴@Yoda4ever
Turtle: "Thanks officer, but I know where I'm going"..🐢😅
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@PulseNigeria247 I know that Kolu and Sabinus dudes got 20 of those😂
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Not even joking when I say like 90% of that 8% are African immigrants
justin’s interlude@stilloverjustin
just joined the 8% of black men with a master’s degree 🎓
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I'm not going to get off of this freaking platform tonight. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
TBC@TBC_on_X
The 50 Shades of JP Morgan teaser looks so wild...
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Glamorous JP Morgan exec accused of turning married male broker into her office sex slave: Viagra spiking and litany of obscene forced acts that made him cry trib.al/BiXXCM0
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