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I'm sure most of us are aware that James Packard was into highly sophisticated watches. In 1916 he had the most sophisticated watch in the world made for him. This ignited a "watch war" between him and Henry Graves. Henry's next watch took 8 years to build and recently got sold at an auction for $24 million:

http://www.luxurysecretsrevealed.com/?p=269

If you're into watches and especially the J. W. Packard collection (now sadly widely dispersed) and his ongoing "one-upsmanship" with Graves, the fairly recent book " A Grand Complication" is a very worthwhile read on the many watches made for both, many by Patek Philippe. I'm actually surprised no one has reviewed it for the Packard Bookshelf on this site.

Here's a bit more on the topic.

http://www.packardclub.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2172

I was lucky enough to see one of his watches on display, discussed here in this thread,https://packardinfo.com/xoops/html/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=11821&forum=4&post_id=122823#forumpost122823

I think these rich kooks pay absurd money for stuff like that because they secretly despise the people who make art and get a kick out of the fact that the artist doesn't receive any benefit.

With all that money they are still so repugnant they can't even get a decent piece of skin.

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Or, they have finally achieved the means to enjoy the finest things. Nothing wrong with that.

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