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After Girard-Perregaux gave the world amazing watches like the Opera one and the Opera Three (which is touted to be on of the most expensive watches) they have now come up with a new variant of the Opera three. This one comes in a small music box that has a keyboard with 20 blades which is can be played through a spinning drum that has 150 hand-mounted pins. What that means is that every time the watch completes an hour, the watch will play Tchaikovsky or Mozart, instead if annoying beeps. A collector's item, the watch saw first light in 2002 and comes with a platinum case and alligator skin strap. It was last priced at $532,000, making it the third most expensive watch in the world![OhGizmo]

And they thought they could get away with it. How silly! French police have recovered a priceless watch collection stolen when thieves forced their way into watch museum in La Chaux-de-Fonds last Thursday. The booty was found under an oak tree, hidden amidst branches, south of Valdahon in neighboring France on Saturday. The robbers had snatched the watches after smashing display cases at the museum. The collection at the Villa Marguerite museum dated back to the 18th century and included several unique timepieces. All of the items, worth several million Swiss francs, were cataloged and would have been difficult to sell, experts said. Willy Schweizer, the museum curator, congratulated the Swiss and French police for their "superb work".