The 14-year veteran received several gifts from the club, including a Tiffany crystal, a Rolex watch, a painting and a stick embossed with silver.

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The geometry of the bridges, the oscillating weight and the decoration, displayed through the sapphire crystal back of the watch, form the image of a garden pavilion in the Mediterranean style, identical to the stately residences of Caroline Murat.

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In a quartz watch a battery runs current through a synthetic quartz crystal, which vibrates at 32, 600 beats per second.

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Immerse yourself in surroundings that evoke a more genteel era and watch treasures from the archives in the glass orangerie (modelled on Crystal Palace), silent films accompanied by live orchestration in the neo-classical drawing room or take part in a foley workshop (recording sound effects) in the crumbling stable block.

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Instead of its standard position behind the movement in back of the watch, the 14mm-diameter wheel floats above the movement and dials, encased under the domed crystal on its face.

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Finally, order a glass or two of fine champagne at one of the city's stellar nightclubs - try Crystal on Rue Monot for bling or B018 in Quarantine for subterranean cool - then sit back, watch Beirut's beautiful people out to play, and toast to the completion of a road trip with which few others back home will be able to match.

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