A gem-studded gold watch that has gone on show within the historic capital of French watchmaking is estimated to be price €100million – though it doesn’t inform the time. 

The Leroy 01, with its valuable stones and 18-carat gold case, is insured for €25million however specialists say it may fetch 4 occasions that if it ever went to public sale. 

Manufactured in 1900 for a Portuguese millionaire, the watch consists of an altimeter, compass, barometer and hygrometer, to measure atmospheric moisture. It tells the native time in 125 cities worldwide, can show three totally different maps of the sky, and lists 600 stars. 

It’s on present in Besançon, the place it was remodeled seven years. With its 24 features, it was essentially the most complicated watch on the earth till 1989, when Swiss watchmaker Patek Philippe created one with 33 features. 

In an affidavit to its intricacy, it’s at the moment not working. There’s a mission to restore it however specialists can’t predict how lengthy this would possibly take or if, as soon as dismantled, anybody may put it again collectively once more attributable to its complexity. It may be seen at Besançon’s newly refurbished Musée du Temps.

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