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This year’s Tempus saw the unveiling of Richard Mille’s highly anticipated Planetarium-Tellurium. This extraordinary creation took Mille seven years to complete and is priced at S$5 million. Essentially, the Planetarium-Tellurium is an astronomical clock that displays information such as the relative positions of the sun, moon, zodiac constellations and planets. Based on new calculations by an astronomer-physicist and use of a détente chronometer escapement, Richard Mille’s Planetarium-Tellurium is quite likely the most precise mechanical astronomical clock ever made. Here’s a closer look at this horological wonder.