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hen Lionel Messi accepted FIFA’s Best Men’s Player award in 2022, the Argentine soccer star wore a platinum Patek Philippe Ref. 5270P Perpetual Calendar Chronograph that retails for $218,000. Call it ...

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Irish watchmaker, Stephen McDonnell, came to MB&F founder, Maximilian Büsser, with a new idea for a perpetual calendar. This resulted in the MB&F Legacy Machine Perpetual, which solves several ...

Frederique Constant already makes one of the most affordable automatic perpetual calendars. Now, it comes in the perfect size with an updated movement. Every product is carefully selected by our ...

As we observe the leap year on Feb. 29, it’s a fitting time to explore five unconventional perpetual calendar watches that put a fresh twist on one of watchmaking’s oldest complications, which ...

Religion, politics, war and, in particular, the position of the sun and the moon can figure into the design of these complex timekeepers. Share full article Parmigiani Fleurier’s Tonda Hijri Perpetual ...

WHEN IWC SCHAFFHAUSEN UNVEILED THE Da Vinci Chronograph Perpetual Calendar in 1985, it showed how the perpetual calendar – one of the most complicated mechanical watches – could be made simple and ...

As part of the Complications, Simplified series explaining the complex mechanisms that add functionality – or complications – to mechanical watches, HYPEBEAST looks at how the Perpetual Calendar kept ...

They call functions on mechanical watches "complications" for a reason, but sometimes things get so complicated that it's time to start over. That's the reasoning that led MB&F and Irish watchmaker ...

Reading about watches can often feel like cracking open a textbook. Browsing—and even buying—means being barraged with inscrutable words and phrases like ”tourbillons,” “perpetual calendars,” “minute ...