"The hands of this retrograding timepiece join at the top of the dial... resemble the needles of a mariner's compass, similar to the one that Gerardus Mercator used... The retrograding hands progress across two arc-shaped zones, one graduated from 1 to 12 hours and the other from 0 to 60 minutes. Each of the hands return to zero on completing one half day and one hour, respectively."It's a Vacheron Constantin's Mercator America, and it's astronomically expensive. Via.
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