Sure, Vacheron in 2024 presented its ultra-complicated clock with 63 complications in an almost 10cm-monolith weighting more than 1kg -- so not really a watch. And I dont want to put too much salt in their "Watches & Wonders"-served h'oeuvre of the thousand tastes, but it comes to me with the odor of a Guinness World-Record in the category "Largest Paella". Something that is for sure not easy to achieve / manufacture / stir together but if someone takes the task, he can add another 100kg of rice / another complication (and extend the size to 11cm) and beat the record -- today.

Instead the most natural and most relevant complication in watchmaking is "Miniaturisation" (see our category "Ultra-Thin" *klikk) and Vacheron took it to another level with excellence exactly 100y ago: with their 1924 produced movement RA8''' 15/12 cased in platinum and decorated with diamonds & gemstones.

Miniaturisation: It is the reason why it is not called clock- but watch-making and it is a dance on the border of technological feasibility of a certain time and era. It is impossible to crush the world-record of this era by simply adding more of the same. Instead it takes horological & technological advances that might come or not -- but that are not yet there.

Photos: Complicated Clock Hodinkee, Miniature Plus Ultra AG