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Now that was complicated!!!
All this time, I thought a watch just consisted of:
Case
Caseback
Dial
Movement
After reading John's last post, I feel like I just got accepted to elementary school, maybe even kindergarten!!! How many years do I have to be in this hobby to know what you just said?
: ...what constitutes a complication?
: 1 Grande Sonnerie
: 2 Petite Sonnerie
: 3 Minute repeater
: 4 Strikework mode display (Silence/Grand Sonnerie/Petite Sonnerie)
: 5 Alarm with time strike
: 6 Date repeater
: 7 Movement power-reserve indicator
: 8 Strikework power-reserve indicator
: 9 Strikework isolator display
: 10 Second time zone
: 11 Second time zone day/night indicator
: 12 Instantaneous perpetual calendar
: 13 Day-of-week display
: 14 Month display
: 15 Date display (on both dials)
: 16 Leap year cycle
: 17 Four-digit year display
: 18 24-hour and minute subdial
: 19 Moon phase
: 20 Crown position indicator
: I do not want to diminish the achievement. I like the watch.
: However, calling the strikework isolator display and the crown
: position indicator complications seems a stretch. I know they
: have traditionally been deemed that but....
: I think the theme of the new Patek collection could
: be..."Complicated".
: JohnCote
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