For example, the now-famous Ulysse Nardin Freak Blue Phantom Replica Watch has a 45mm white gold case. Not small by imagination, but immanently portable, especially since within that 45mm is housed a 16-jewel hand-wound eight-day carousel orbital flying

Tourbillon Caliber UN-208 movement. The same goes for the rose gold 45mm Stranger ($ 112,000), and platinum 44mm Skeleton Tourbillon ($ 85,000) with its cutaway Caliber UN-170 manually wound movement.

How often do you get hands-on with amazingly rare and complicated Ulysse Nardin Freak Phantom swiss replica timepieces and eat a great rare New York Kona crust comic? Yes, not that often. So when I was invited to a dinner showcasing Ulysse Nardin's latest über complications, Baselworld novelties, and exclusive boutiques at the Boca Raton Capital Grille, I jumped at my chance. I mean ... steak, champagne, and watches ... what's better?
I'll tell you what could be better ... getting serious hands-on time with watches that will probably never make it into my collection, like the Ulysse Nardin Freak replica watches Blue Phantom, Stranger, Tellurium Johannes Kepler (part of the limited trilogy set), Skeleton Tourbillon, and Marine Chronograph. (Okay, so I can take a shot at that last one.) These watches were enough to freak out a person… get it… Freak… I'm killing myself.

Sorry about that. I drank a lot of caffeine today. Anyway. The watches. Normally, when one sees a uniquely complicated watch today, they are usually quite large. In fact, they are often, in a word, huge (Audemars Piguet and Hublot, I'm looking in your direction). Not so with the top-notch Ulysse Nardin. Their complicated timepieces (they place them under the "Exceptional" Collection) are surprisingly quite large.

Ulysse Nardin Freak Blue Phantom in white gold
There are a lot of creative, remarkably innovative, and really cool, complicated watches out there. But there is something special about the watches in the Ulysse Nardin Exceptional Collection. They have a feeling that they are not usually found with other manufacturers. They are just more fun.
Take the Ulysse Nardin Stranger, for example. This $ 112,000 rose gold music box watch plays Frank Sinatra's "Strangers in the Night" through a spinning music box-style disc that sits on top of the self-winding Caliber UN-690 64 jewels movement. You could probably count the number of music box watches on the one hand, but none of them pay tribute to the chairman of the board, except for the Ulysse Nardin Stranger. Like I said, nice. The Stranger's only downside is its weight. It's a bit hefty, but not so heavy that you wouldn't get used to it. Replica Rolex Perpetual successful feeling watches for sale.