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https://gizmodo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/18/1434610201181437585.jpg?quality=751280720To help celebrate 260 years of watchmaking, Vacheron Constantin actually spent the last eight years leading up to its anniversary designing, engineering, and building what it claims is the most complicated mechanical pocket watch ever created.