The Most Complicated Watch Ever Made - Aeternitas Mega
The Aeternitas Mega by FRANCK MULLER is the most complicated wristwatch in the world - the pinnacle of success in the art of watchmaking in terms of complexity and complications.
With 5 years of R&D, 36 complications 25 of them visible, 1,483 components and a 1000-year calendar it is the world's most complicated timepiece ever produced, oh and did we say it also has a staggering
2.7 million dollars price tag!
The name of the Aeternitas comes from Latin and means eternity and is in tribute to the eternal calendar in the Aeternitas Mega that follows a 1000-year cycle renewable to infinity.
Never has the Maison de Haute Horlogerie better deserved its name of “Master of Complications”, pulverising the record number of complications ever housed in a single wristwatch. The challenge for the Master Watchmakers of Genthod was enormous: how to embed all the complications known to this day in a watch that was designed to be worn. The Aeternitas movement served as a base, while the Mega 4 represents the apotheosis of the art of watchmaking with its grand and small Westminster chime striking-work, the only one available on the market with a tourbillon visible on the dial. Added to this are a minute repeater, a mono-pushpiece split-seconds chronograph, a perpetual calendar secular, and an equation of time which only varies by 6.8 seconds per lunar month, the equivalent of one day every thousand years!
Although the first piece of this exceptional, limited series was presented to an American collector at a ceremony in Monaco last November, the Master Watchmakers of Genthod are already putting the finishing touches to a second Aeternitas Mega 4, which will be available in the very near future.
