Awesome Solar System Watch

Van Cleef & Arpels is selling the Complication Poétique Midnight Planétarium for a cool 

$245,000. It’s a 369 part watch that displays the first six of our NINE (you’ll always be 

planet to me, Pluto!) planets orbiting in real time. As in, mini Mercury takes 88 days to 

make a rotation around the mini sun, Venus takes 224, Earth a year, Mars in 687 days,

 Jupiter in 12 years, and Saturn in whopping 29 years. Strangely enough, the watch is not

 solar powered which I think would have been appropriate. I know, pretty genius idea. What 

can I say, I’m ahead of my time. Well, that’s one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is

that I’m a stoner who occassionally has a clear moment, producing a quasi-good idea. But

 personally I prefer the first description.