A well-made watch is a combination of beauty and craftsmanship. Time, patience, and dedication are required to master the delicate skills of horology. Quality watches are high end goods that can take weeks, months or even years to finish. The more complex the timepiece, the longer the time required.
A timepiece showing only hours and minutes is known as a simple movement, with the movement being the actual time-telling mechanism. Any addition to a watch beyond this is known as a complication, with common complications in watches being day/date displays, kinetic winding mechanisms, lunar cycles, alarms and chronographs. Adding complications to a watch design increases the time required for the build, but also increases the individuality of the watch. A particularly complex watch with multiple tools added is known as ?Grand Complication? Too Complex to Define
Curiously, there is no accepted standard definition of what makes a ?Grand Complication?. In fact, in 2013, a selection of watch experts set out to attempt a definition during a panel discussion. Despite two of them claiming that a standard definition did indeed exist, they failed. A common and widely accepted definition however is any watch with a simple movement completed by three or more horological complexities. It should be noted that a watch with multiple non-horological complexities ? anything not related to the metering of time, such as a thermometer ? but only a simple movement will not be considered a grand com...