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TIME HONORED effortless complexity PERPETUAL CALENDARS PRESENT A DELIGHTFUL DUALITY TO WATCH-OBSESSED LAS VEGAS MEN: A COMPLICATED BUILD FOR A CENTURY OF EASY WEAR. BY ROBERTA NAAS PHOTOGRAPHY BY JEFF GALE AND JEFF CRAWFORD O ne of the most sought-after complications on today's watch market—both in vintage and in new timepieces—is the perpetual calendar. These sophisticated time trackers typically hold anywhere from 300 to 600 pieces and command prices that range from $25,000 to hundreds of thousands of dollars, depending on their added functions and adornments. Waiting lists for these watches can run several years—a drop in the bucket, really, since these complex movements can stay accurate for more than a hundred years. Essentially, the perpetual calendar tracks and displays the day, month, date, and year with automatic accuracy. With the exception of a few that will run for centuries, today's perpetual calendar watches typically are built to track time until March 1, 2100. At that point in time, the leap year TOP LEFT : A. Lange & Söhne's Datograph Perpetual watch ($164,800) is crafted in platinum and consists of 556 parts. Accurate to a rate deviation of only one day in 122 years, it is also equipped with chronograph with jumping minute counter, oversize date, day of week and month indication, year and leap year display, moon phase, and day/night indication. Wynn & Company Watches, 702-770-3520; alange-soehne.com user-friendly, the watch date, day, month, and year can be instantly changed forward or backward with the + or – pushers when the user changes time zones. Horologio, Grand Canal Shoppes at the Venetian, 702-733-0016; ulysse-nardin.ch TOP RIGHT: From Ulysse Nardin, this platinum El Toro GMT +/- Perpetual Calendar watch ($69,900) is created in a limited edition of 500 pieces. It offers dual time function and the UN-32 movement is a COSC-certified chronometer. Highly 66 BOTTOM : The IWC Big Pilot's Watch Perpetual Calendar Top Gun ($38,600) houses a host of complications, including a perpetual calendar with four-digit year display, moon-phase display in both the northern and southern hemispheres, and offers seven days of power reserve thanks to the Pellaton automatic winding system. It is crafted in titanium and ceramic. Bellusso Jewelers, The Shoppes at the Palazzo, 702-650-2988; iwc.com VEGASMAGAZINE.COM 066-067_V_SS_TimeHonored_Win13.indd 66 1/2/13 1:52 PM