I agree JC,

This kind of engineering shouldn't be judged on price. If it was $1000, there would be many who couldn't afford it & moan about the price.

I think it's astonishing.

Stewart

: We all have different opinions. This chronograph is together with
: the Monaco V4 a truly GRANDE COMPLICATION you can only compare
: to a Tourbillon. We have developed from scratch 396 totally new
: components and spent 20.000 hours of work. The assembling itself
: takes 2 days of a qualified wAtchmaster. Hence the cost hence
: the consumer price, taking into account as well the current vey
: high gold price. All media met found it rather
: "accessible" for the new benchmark in chronographs ie
: the only one EXTREMELY PRECISE and UTTERLY READABLE, which are
: the 2 main requirements for a top end chronographs. Never forget
: that before the Mikrograph, most chronographs you can buy
: nowadays, often at very very high prices are beating at 4 Hertz
: only (1/8th of a second.......) and don't display anything more
: precise than one second in ways not easy to read.....in other
: words, the MIKROGRAPH is the first ever real Chronograph !