If luxury watchmakers are fretting about the 3.3% dip in Swisscheap watches for menexports in 2015, they certainly have a funny method of showing it at Baselworld, the worldwide watch and jewelry honest exactly where brand names present off their latest designs and technology.

Right here, representatives from Fendi talked about raising prices; Hermes showed watches with significant cats hand-carved and painted onto their enamel faces; and Chanel launched a collection of timepieces housing tiny sculpted gold birds in their cases. (Starting price: $200,000.) Brand names use these ultra-expensive, super limited-edition watches to tell their stories at Baselworld: Hermes showcases the artistry prevalent in its renowned scarves, Chanel's motifs hearken back to Coco's original apartment furnishings, and so forth.

On Quartz's first day in the fair, perhaps none of these marquis mega-relex watches replicablew our minds pretty like the Ulysse Nardin Grand Deck Marine Tourbillon: a high-tech tribute to the 170-year-old Swiss watchmaker's nautical history. (Ulysse Nardin launched in 1846 and created its name manufacturing marine chronometers: highly accurate watches designed for keeping time at sea.)

The Grand Deck might border on kitsch had been it not for its respect-demanding engineering and "complications"-those features view nerds go nuts for. These go far beyond its 60-second flying tourbillon and also a skeletonized barrel, by means of which the wearer could monitor his or her chronometer's several parts in action.

Within the watch's dial, four little silver pins function like winches (individuals metal spools you use to crank while in the sails) pulling the boom-the pole at the foot of the sail-across the watch's face above 60 minutes. Every hour, the watch's "boom" swings back across the its face. (This is the stage on an actual boat when you yell "Jibe ho!" or at least politely inform everyone toomega watches replicatheir head.) The dial, created of teeny-tiny strips of inlaid grey oak, looks like a miniaturized boat deck.

At $280,000, it truly is at least cheaper than an actual yacht and probably requires far less maintenance.