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Let's play a game: what would you buy for nautilus money?
Jan 20, 2022,18:54 PM
After seeing the steel Nautilus trading for around 160-170k euros on chrono24 I decided to play a game: building a varied collection of grail level pre owned pieces for the same amount of money.
Here's what I came up with:
1) Lange 1 in platinum, it's my grail watch and had to include one, couldn't go for the darth because of the "limited" budget (~36k)
2) Blancpain Tourbillon Transparence: 38mm of pure rose gold goodness, with a sapphire dial and a big date complication (~36k)
3) Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Minute Repeater: the perfect reverso size with the coolest complication there is (~34k)
4) Vacheron Constantin Malte Platinum Perpetual Calendar Chronograph (–54k)
If this isn't a clear sign of the insanity of today's market I don't know what is. If given the choice and money was no object I'd pick any of these watches alone against a Nautilus, but nowadays you can have all 4 for the price of a 3 hand steel watch with a date and pins in the bracelet. That or a perpetual calendar chronograph, a tourbillon with a big date and power reserve, a minute repeater and a lange 1, all in either rose gold or platinum. Wow.