Audemars Piguet Tourbillon Minute Repeater Chronograph

[bigtruckseriesreview]

I never knew a watch could sound like a Grandfather clock. Thing is, I don't have $50,000 to spend on a watch.

[Divine9K]

$547,432.00

[kraskata2012]

i want to buy a replica

[charliebad]

I wonder where I'd travel too with that time machine!

[WatchesWatcher]

Very nice sound. It's difficult to fully appreciate the intricacies of a minuter repeater.

[kraskata2012]

i am a proud owner of classic SEIKO 5

[Temisdas]

Why buy a Ferrari , when you can buy a Repeater?

[luiseduardo586]

Buy a digital Casio!

[HYPHYDUM408]

I wish I knew enough about mechanical engineering and watches to appreciate the complexity of these watches.

[novan3]

@HYPHYDUM408

You don't need to know to appreciate :)

[Nietzsche715]

Thank You for sharing such an amazing timepiece. I don't know if I'll ever get to see one in person, so this may be as close as I get.

[TechWizard28]

11:58

[ToothyGus]

Is this water proof? and can you also read time on the dial?

[Blazerelf]

lol this is not a watch its just a decoration you put in you wrist you have to asume the time your ownself:/ no numbers

[TheIcecoldkidd]

lil too pricey for me

[MegaBeerFart]

i wish I had $349,000 and then my watch could chime the time too...

[Theboyking567]

Ya its cool, but it doesn't hold a candle to my G-shock.

[sadanjd]

the original intent of this alarm is , before  150 years ago,it was for the gentlemen to tell the time in a darkened theater.

[RespectMyHate]

You people see these beautiful watches and give praise to the people who have created them. They truly are works of art, but many fail to realize how complex a single cell is, these watches are childs play, fisher price when compaired to a microscopic human cell and yet you give the credit to brainless, random, and naturally selected evolution, I just don't understand the logic. God is real people.

[DAKOTA56777]

Not another religious nut, it's fine to belive in god but when you call people stupid for thinking watch makers are very skilled witch they are. I use science not religon the "brainless,random, and naturally selected evolution" makes more sense than a all powerful being just popped everything in to exsistence.

[RespectMyHate]

@DAKOTA56777 well in your world this watch can evolve by the same processes we did according to evolution.

[prodigytechus]

@RespectMyHate

In your world, I suppose Swiss watches would pop into existence out of nowhere....

[astumpe80]

@RespectMyHate What are you doing on youtube, shouldn't you be at church, or protesting gay marriage, or somthing???

[musiclover9494]

@RespectMyHate ahhh mmmm god didnt create minute repeaters or tourbillons didnt he?

[douro20]

I'd like to see a centrifugal governor in one of these, but I'd imagine that it wouldn't fit because of the integrated chrono...

[MartyMartin87]

Whaaaat?????

[Gambit58]

WOW I'm drooling like crazy, so beautiful! I would like to point out that Turbillon movement a ARE more complicated since not that many people can build or repair them. I think that a most excellent example is Breitling (I know crap in a nice wrapper) tried making one. They really didnt succeed. There is one though, at their museum but how well it keeps time and how easy it is to make it they wont say. . Be aware that fixing it might cost a fortune.

[HeySL87]

it sounds better than patek ! doesnt it ?

[chrisfball12]

wow

[dragonaire007]

11:58

[ocdetails]

How can you tell? That isn't what time it sounded like to me...

[GAWEIN]

11:(15x3+13) = 11:58

[dotUnderline]

the hours are signaled by a low tone, the quarters are signaled by a sequence of two tones and the minutes by a high tone. So it's 11 low tones (11 h) 3 sequences of two tones (45 min) and 13 high tones that add to 45 ( 45 + 13 = 58 ) 11:58 .

[565Customz]

so what if its 11.05?

[dotUnderline]

then it will be 11 low tones and 5 high tones

[edicius666]

amazing, 5 stars!

[provex0]

what an ugly watch. no one in their right mind would wear a piece of crap like that.

[therealglennquagmire]

LMAO have you noticed that this is the backside? stick to your casio so that you can at least read the time.

[petewharby]

that's the back of it, tard

[bowcapp]

Question to all of you watch gurus: Which one is more difficult to make, the minute repeater or the tourbillon (many people argue that the tourbillon is not a complication by itself)???

[maximusben1]

the tourbillon is harder to assemble for the watchmaker, but the minute repeater is more complicated both to develop and in itself. However, it depends. Some minute repeaters are much more complicated even to assemble, like the new gerald genta grande et petite sonnerie and some tourbillon are more complicated like the gyrotourbillon of JLC or the FP Journe a force constante. But a simple tourbillon is not hard to design, the chinese now do simple tourbillons that sell for about 700$

[lolcat23]

Its not harder for the watchmaker to assemble a tourbillon then a minute repeater.

[GraandHustleMafia]

wow im poor, i have no idea what i watching nor what you people are talking about? lol whats a Patek? whats a tourbillion?

[wizard79tg]

@GraandHustleMafia Patek refers to the Patek Phillipe watches 1 of the 3 great swiss watch makers these are very expensive watches $18000+ because of all the detail when been made (handmade) and their exclusiveness among others, tourbillion is a complication in mechanical watches that allows to minimize the effect of gravity in the mechanism thus making it more acurate altough it´s been proven that the effect is minimum, visit the patek, audemars piguet and vacheron constantin pages to de more

[MartyMartin87]

@wizard79tg 18000 dollars is not really expensive for what I have seen in this video. There are watches on earth that come for a half a million dollars or more. These babys aren't watches, they are the result of the best todays technics, engineering and art. I can't put it in words.

[Danne9000]

@wizard79tg I'd like to think you just "forgot" to name JLC ^

[wizard79tg]

@Danne9000 Mmmm no although JLC are luxury watches, they aren't 100% independent like patek or audemars, as i know Vacheron and JLC belong to the same group Richemont group so putting it in that words JLC and Vacheron are at the same level, but Vacheron has some really beautiful and expensive pieces of art like the tour de i'lle, that's why i put it instead of JLC

[platinumguitar]

@GraandHustleMafia Haha, has anyone told you yet?

[palauskas]

@GraandHustleMafia may I add, uneducated. Haha, these my friend are extremely simple terms, Patek is Phatek Philipe, which is a brand, and a tourbillion is a watch part, you know, that spins.

[John27346]

Can I ask you how you know this?

[lolcat23]

I work with complicated watches, all of them have tourbillons

[lolcat23]

The tourbillon is not a complication, although its complicated. a complication needs to derive something from measuring time, like chronograph, minute repeater, calender, alarm etc. a tourbillon is "merely" a different layout of the wheels.

[jasonextreme]

These watches are true works of art.

I wish I had such wealth and prestige to even afford these things, but I'm only 16 :(

[ketchupisevil]

I'm 17 and I hope I work hard enough to learn the concepts of mechanics to work in his shop one day. >_>

[Hakbje]

@jasonextreme Im only 16 to, but I recently bought myself a beautiful new Panerai 111. Paid almost 6000 dollars for it.And Im not full of money, I just used all my confirmation money. So, in other words, I am completely broke, but I have a beautiful watch I hope to keep for the rest of my life :)

[hermanshermits124124]

@Hakbje When I see you on the street, I will give you a dollar.

[zorky101]

@jasonextreme same here bro.

[DamienBlcK]

@jasonextreme Maybe next year.. Well atleast you appreciate them and can strive to acheive such things.. nothing is impossible.

[taylor102894]

well then you are way ahead of your time, i did not even get into watches or know what a tourbillon was until 25, the fact you can appreciate it at such a young age is great.  Go to watchmaking shcool, only have one chance.

[prodigytechus]

@jasonextreme

Am 25 & am just getting into the grandeur of mech watches, if you truly love watch making, study in Switzerland, if you want to earn the money to buy them - develop a creative talent, or you may have to slog on a job rather than be your own boss !

All the best brother !

[DanFrederiksen]

@jasonextreme I wish you'd be smart enough to see that a mechanical watch is foolish pretentious emperor's new clothes when a digital watch is so superior

[siber14]

@DanFrederiksen yes you are right digital watches can keep better time than analog watches. But automatic watches are not just for telling the time they are a work of art. These watches were never made to be a item to indicate ones status. But only to be enjoyed by their owners as art. As the swiss say if you have it hide it.

[ryanhayn]

@DanFrederiksen That's like saying "Why go to a museum when you can just Google a piece of art?"

[DanFrederiksen]

@ryanhayn in a sense yes. googling a piece of art might make it easier for you to realize that 'art' has little or no real value.

it's neat little grand father clock mechanics but to pay 200000$ for it is not Patek Philippe, it's Pathetique Philippe. Life saving surgery for a thousand people around his wrist when a 10$ watch would perform better.

[ryanhayn]

@DanFrederiksen Value is subjective. Some people value Pateks and some people value $10 Casios. $200000 could pay for surgery for a bunch of people the same way $10 could buy a few meals for a homeless person. If I had the money, I'd buy one of these watches, and I'd also donate some of my wealth to the poor.

[DanFrederiksen]

@ryanhayn saying what you would do doesn't make it right

[ryanhayn]

@DanFrederiksen Right is also subjective.

[DanFrederiksen]

@ryanhayn so hitler was also right? of course it's not subjective. truth is absolute. you are not entitled to your own standards

[ryanhayn]

@DanFrederiksen Of course, people always have to bring Hitler into the argument. Hitler was right and he was wrong. There's always positive and negative consequences to every action.

[thecartel360]

@jasonextreme your time will come man

[ToxicxChex]

@jasonextreme Ha i know how you feel, im 15 and i LOVE watches, but i dont think i'll ever be rich enough to own one ;(

[platinumguitar]

@ToxicxChex Why not? Just put your mind to it. I'm turning 16 in February and I've already accumulated extreme wealth. I'm already economically independent and I make about 200000$ every week. Keep on trying and you'll succeed. I guarantee that if you want it bad enough you will some day be wealthy! Good luck.

[ToxicxChex]

@platinumguitar i want to be an astrophysicist or a theoretical physicist, but they dont pay large sums of money :S What the hell do you work us to get that much money?

[platinumguitar]

@ToxicxChex I started investing in stock when I was 11 and earn extreme sums of money. From then on I came in contact with a very famous Sheik from Saudi Arabia and bought oil from him, now I just grow bigger all the time. I might be able to buy an oil plantation in 4-5 years, then I'll start to earn real money!

[Skovkat]

@platinumguitar You are full of shit, stupid basement dweller.

[platinumguitar]

@Skovkat I see you are from Denmark, I hate Denmark. And I especially hate you since you are another jealous punk. Basement dweller? I think YOU are.

[Skovkat]

@platinumguitar I'm jealous of your imagination

[platinumguitar]

@Skovkat My God… What is wring with todays internet society..

[azaas]

AP with one heck of a fine movement... A true manufacture among the very top of what we call Haute Horlogerie

[FabianDiegoAckermann]

wow that is amazing..i love it

[hohoman16]

it is 11.58,thats what the ticking indicate

the first low ring is for hour times

11 ring =11hour

2nd low and high ring (2rings=1 quater) indicate quater

3 rings=45 mins

13 high rings mean minutes

total is 11 58...... y did someone gave spiroth87932 a thumbs down for???? obviously that person dont know how to use a minute repeater watches.....sad

ignorance is bliss my friends

one love

[TakeBackTheWorld]

@hohoman16

Owning an AP watch = 1 giant headache

[scotfreak]

This is definitely a big jump from my AP (mine is vintage)

[evilamish]

Up your's rolex

How much does this watch go for?

[cristiantroy75]

300 K

[nakenkock]

So sweet!!!

[sephiroth87932]

11:58 yay!

[heliman29]

That is so steampunk... it doesn't even know it's steampunk...

[GrooveMasterItaly]

amazing!!!!

[Sokonomi]

This watch has such a majestic charm, its incredible. These watches progrably are worth a fortune?

[pbchrist]

naw, you can gets them for like a hundo up at the spot.

[Nizzler1]

first chimes indicate the hour, the double-chimes indicate the quarter hour and the single chimes at the end indicate how many minutes past the indicated quarter hour you are.

[nanogear]

WOOOW, thanks a lot!!!!

[PeterPW]

someone's excited

[nanogear]

Hehehe. Is just that this watch has a beautiful machine

[nanogear]

How? First 11 bell sounds say the hour but I dont know how you "read" the minutes.

Can some one explain it to me please?

[supernova7775]

11:58 is correct

[radicaledward40]

Wow, this blows my patek clean out of the water.

[notsuferatu]

i have never seen this before and i dont know how to translate it into time, however after watching several times i think i finally understood, this one's time is 11:58???

[PeterPW]

correct exactly right

[pkri]

sehr schön

[PeterPW]

I aspire a repeater watch

[hrhadam]

Such a brilliant and classic complication

[Dzhendobri]

Lovely.