Graves spent 60,000 Swiss francs (USD $15,000) (equivalent to $364,357 in 2024),[5] nearly five times the price paid by Packard.

Complications included a perpetual calendar with phases and age of the moon, indication of sunrise and sunset, and a celestial chart depicting the stars in the nighttime sky over New York City.

)[7] The watch was held in the Rockford Time Museum until it was sold at Sotheby's for a record-breaking $11,002,500 to an anonymous bidder in New York City on December 2, 1999.

[4][8] The owner was later known to be a member of the Qatari Royal Family, Sheikh Saud bin Muhammed Al Thani.

[9][10] The watch was on loan to the Patek Philippe Museum[6] in Geneva, Switzerland for several years,[9] and was the most expensive single piece on display.