The one and only Poker watch from Christophe Claret (costing around 200,000CHF) ; One can play a game of Texas hold'em with up to three players. With this fully mechanical complication which appropriates a full deck of cards, the game is completely random and you have just the same odds as if you were playing with a real deck!
There were two other watches from Claret making their debut; A distinctly feminine complication which randomly plucks petals from a sunflower in the fabled game of would be princesses "he loves me, he loves me not". This watch was even more complicated than its more masculine siblings with around 700 parts in total! Being a ladies watch it comes with a full compliment of high grade diamonds making the piece cost a whopping 280 thousand Swiss Francs.
The last watch was a bit of a surprise for me and I have to admit I was quite impressed with the result. Claret decided to tackle one of my favourite escapements, the detent, and appropriate it to the wristwatch with a constant force mechanism to boot! The company went to great lengths to confront the issue of shock absorption surrounding the escapemen. A bridge with a dampening mechanism was developed to absorb shocks that would go to the arm of the escapement. As the detent arm is such a delicate mechanism a simple shock could release the whole gear train from its control causing serious damage to the watch. I found the level of finishing to be very impressive as well and was surprised to see they even used a sapphire bridge (without even making a big deal about it!) so we can see even more of the components.
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