The watch Jay-Z is wearing in that photo isn't just a watch.
You can't just walk into a store and buy this, even if you have $6.5 million cash.
Patek Philippe requires an application process. They look at your history as a collector to ensure the watch goes to someone who deserves it (and won't immediately flip it for profit).
For a watch like this, you aren't paying for the time; you’re paying for a combination of extreme engineering complications, rarity and wearable art.
In watchmaking, a complication is any function beyond telling the hours and minutes. This specific watch has 20 complications and over 1,366 individual parts.
It knows the difference between months with 30 and 31 days and even accounts for leap years without needing a manual reset until the year 2100.
The watch is double-faced. There are dials on both the front and the back. The lugs are designed so you can flip the watch over to see the other face while it's still on your wrist.
While most modern watches are made by machines, every single one of those 1,366 parts in the Grandmaster Chime was hand-finished.
A luxury car loses value the moment you drive it away, a Patek Philippe often gains value. For example, a unique stainless steel version of this exact model once sold at auction for $31 million.
2016 is the last year (black) people collectively remember as a good year all around. Hm I wonder what monumental event took place to change all that? Surely it must’ve been something.
Ngl, adult friendships require grace. People are very busy. People are healing. People are growing. People are taking time for self care just like you. Less communication isn’t less love. Check in not out.
Do people understand that worrying about the 1 male cheerleader standing with 20 beautiful women cheerleaders is in fact, gayer than actually being gay?
Her 2010 Grammy performance of if I were a boy x you Oughta know mashup. Absolute legendary!
Also Beyoncé became the first female artist in history to win six Grammys in one night. ✨