there have been a number of repetition a minutes made by pp. many were made upon request. i speak of the tonneau shaped platinum case minuter repeater for henry graves jnr,  refs 2421, 2524, ref 3979, 3974,3939,5013, 5016, 5074  and toubillion ref 3834, 3939, 5101, 5016

i have noted that that a number of comments on here that suggest that these master complications are useless in a watch and can not justify paying so much for a reference with them. 

it is admitted that the movement of the wrist takes the place of a tourbillion and is therefore redundant in a watch and it can be successfully argued that non one cares to listen to the chimes and gongs of a wrist watch, as this was for when electricity was uninvented and darknes reigned.

my arguement is that it is not the use of the complications that counts but the audacity a feat as to defy horology logic by placing so much in so little space. surely that is what kindles a flame inside the mind of a horology collector, afterall if we are to discuss the logic of acquisition then why would anybody in their right mind spend tens of thousand of dollars/euro on any watch, let alone hundreds of thousands, when you can get a cheap quartz watch that will tell you the time or even better still, utilise our cellphones clock.

most of us presumably use our watches to solely inform us of the time and at the same moment admire the beauty of the watch we have on. how many of us actually use the complications regularly is another question. i for one rarely use the chronography but doodle over the other complications that i have on my other watches. most collectors will not even use the watches (straight into the safe in plastic nib), others use their watches but do not correct the complications (if perpetual, annual calendar).

so when you consider a watch to buy, is it important that the complication is useful for you or is it the horology feat that gives you the kicks?