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In March 2012, at a jewelry show in Switzerland, watchmaker Hublot unveiled what news reports hailed as the world’s most expensi
In March 2012, at a jewelry show in Switzerland, watchmaker Hublot unveiled what news reports hailed as the world’s most expensi
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问题
In March 2012, at a jewelry show in Switzerland, watchmaker Hublot unveiled what news reports hailed as the world’s most expensive wrist watch—a timepiece (钟表计时器) encrusted with 1,282 diamonds, including six stones that weighed more than three carats (克拉) apiece. It took 17 workers 14 months to set all the stones in the one-of-a-kind timepiece. The price tag? Five million dollars. The company’s president, Jean-Claude Biver, told the reporter that it’d be hard to make a pricier watch than this one, given that "the surface of a watch is limited" and there just isn’t much room for more bling.
Hublot’s over-the-top (奢侈的) watch is an elegant piece of wrist candy, to be sure, even if you wouldn’t dare to wear it on the street without an armed escort. But if you’re concerned about actually using a watch to tell time, this one probably isn’t that great of a choice, since there’s so much glitter on the face that the positions of the hour, minute and second hands are tough to discern. Also, there’s no digital display and no stopwatch mode, so it wouldn’t be very useful if you want to keep track of your pace when you go for a jog in the park. In comparison, a humble Timex Ironman T5E321, the sort of watch you can purchase on Amazon.com for as little as $47, can do all of that and far more. It has a back-lit (背光) display that you can read clearly even at night, and if you’re a traveler, you can set it to flip between two different time zones. In a pinch, it even can double as an alarm clock.
But most importantly, the $5 million watch doesn’t necessarily keep time more accurately than a $47 watch—at least to any degree you could discern. In a study published in Horological Journal in 2008, a researcher from the National Institute of Standards and Technology used sophisticated scientific equipment to test the performance of four cheap watches, including a counterfeit Rolex purchased from a street vendor for $15. He found that all four were astonishingly precise, to within a few thousandths of a second per day.
So for strictly utilitarian (使用的) purposes, the answer to the question we’ve posed is a simple "no". But "better" is subjective, and people pick watches for a lot of other reasons besides telling time.
What do we know about the world’s most expensive wrist watch?
选项
A、It was unveiled at a jewelry show in May 2012.
B、It was priced at five million dollars.
C、It was made by 17 workers for 14 years.
D、It was decorated with six diamonds.
答案
B
解析
细节题。根据题干中的the world’s most expensive wrist watch可定位到原文第一段。该段提到,这块最为名贵的手表是在2012年3月的一次珠宝展上首次公开展出的,表盘上镶有1282颗钻石,其中6颗超过3克拉。17名工人花了14个月的时间才镶嵌好所有的宝石。该手表的标价是500万美元。由此可知,四个选项中只有B项表述符合原文,故选B。
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