Coming in at number three of our countdown from the #SothebysArchives is the Audemars Piguet Universelle. Created in 1899, the watch known as the Universelle is one of the most complicated watches in the world. Its 1,168 components, including 316 screws, offer 26 functions, and houses 19 different complications. Equipped with a Grande Sonnerie Carillon and a perpetual calendar, an alarm with minutes indicator, the mechanism also integrates a split-seconds chronograph with a “foudroyante” and deadbeat seconds (also called jumping seconds). Forming the centrepiece of the Musée Atelier Audemars Piguet, the Universelle continues to delight visitors and inspire today’s watchmakers over a hundred years after its creation. After disappearing in the 1920s, this Universelle resurfaced at Sotheby’s Geneva, making its auction debut in November 1993.