Horological Meandering

A post a little while ago by Art Collector (“3 watches that sing to me”) made me ponder that oft-considered rhetorical question “what is the minimum number of high-end watches that could represent a forever collection?”. Even assuming an exemption for rel...  

A repeater, world time, alarm, and perpetual calendar watch. Geez! Uhh... If I were to design a watch, I'd want it to be able to do everything! Oh! Wait! They already make one of those! It's called APPLE WATCH! Joking aside, what a wonderfully fun post! T... 

I think 'Forever' watches exist, but not among advocates of watch forums like ours. Unless it's an heirloom or gift from a special person, in my experience, nothing is forever. For over 5 years I had a Patek 5020, AP Royal Oak Offshore Moonphase Perpetual... 

Although I'd put a lot of functional complexity in here, at heart this is an automatic minute repeater, perpetual calendar with a 24 hour function, all elements that the Patek 3974 had in a 36mm x 12mm case in 1989 (though, to be fair, it doesn't have the... 

And affordable to me!

I would definitely have the sum functionalities but i would replace the minute repeater with an hourly chimmer function instead and would be nice to have like a solar system there (like below) and I have always liked the world maps where they have dots or...  

Thanks for the thoughts - the planetarium stuff is cool but wasn't something I wanted in a world timer; the astronomical watch would be another of the four forever pieces. And no clever software; I just mocked up in ppt!

I might try that out and make my own dream watch lol