Perpetual calendar watches with style that will last a century
Created by Patek Philippe in 1925, the perpetual calendar complication ensured that one would never be inconvenienced by having to reset a watch to account for months with 31 days—or a pesky leap year. Today, one of the most romantic concepts in horology is still ticking—while other timepieces (those with monthly calendars) require winding and adjusting, these watches do not. Instead, they keep track of seconds, minutes, hours, days and years for at least a century. All you really need to appreciate them is time
GREUBEL FORSEY PLATINUM GMT
In horology, a GMT watch refers to a dual time-zone indicator set to Greenwich Mean Time. But this GMT goes well beyond the conventional display by incorporating a globe that completes one rotation every 24 hours. It also features a 72-hour power reserve, small seconds and day/night indicators in a 43.5-mm wide platinum case ($630,000)
(This story appears in the Sept-Oct 2014 issue of ForbesLife India. To visit our Archives, click here.)