Most Expensive Watches
Chopard - $25 million
This gaudy timepiece by Chopard is adorned with three heart-shaped diamonds—a 15-carat pink diamond, a 12-carat blue diamond and an 11-carat white diamond. For good measure, they threw in 163 carats of white and yellow diamonds to bring the total to 201 carats of diamonds. The result is something that looks rather like a geode that’s been turned inside out and dipped in lemon Kool-Aid. Add to that the fact that the size of the watch’s face must make telling time into a fun game of Where’s Waldo and you’ll see that Chopard has truly created a recipe for success.
Patek Phillipe’s Supercomplication - $11 million
Polish watchmaker Antoni Patek started making pocket watches in 1839 in Geneva, along with his fellow Polish migrant Franciszek Czapek. They separated in 1844, and in 1845 Patek joined with the French watchmaker Adrien Philippe, inventor of the keyless winding mechanism. In 1851, Patek Philippe & Co was founded.
In 1868, Patek Philippe made their first wrist-watch. They have also pioneered the perpetual calendar, split-seconds hand, chronograph, and minute repeater in watches.
The company, like other Swiss manufacturers, produces mostly mechanical movements of the automatic and manual wind variety, but has produced quartz watches in the past and even a digital wrist watch, the Ref. 3414. PP is notable for manufacturing its own watch components.
Patek Philippe timepieces have recorded high closing prices in auctions worldwide. A large part of the demand for auction pieces is driven by Patek Philippe themselves, as they are often purchasing in the auction market to add to the collection of the Patek Philippe Museum in Geneva.
As of the late 2000s, the company is owned by the Stern family, led by Philippe Stern and his son Thierry Stern.
Patek Philippe produced an ultra-complicated (with 24 functions) pocket-watch for Henry Graves, Jr., who entered into a friendly horological competition with James Ward Packard, which resulted in the production of the watch (known as “The Supercomplication”) sold to Mr. Graves in 1933. After his death, the watch was auctioned at Sotheby’s in December 1999 for USD$11,000,000, at that time the most expensive timepiece ever sold.
Patek Philippe’s Platinum World Time – over $4 million
The Platinum World Time created by Patek Philippe was sold at auction for over $4 million USD in 2002. It is believed that only one was created and, at the time, it was the most expensive wristwatch in the world.
In fact, Patek Philippe had produced all of the ten most expensive watches in the world. The company, headquartered in Geneva, made their first wristwatch in 1868. They had already made a name for themselves prior to that, however, by providing watches to Queen Victoria herself in 1851. Other notable customers include Pope Pius IX, a king and queen of Denmark, an Italian king and Saddam Hussein’s son-in-law.
Vacheron Constantin Tour de l’Ile – $1.5 million
Vacheron Constantin was founded in Geneva, Switzerland in 1755 by Jean-Marc Vacheron. This makes it the oldest watch manufacturer in the world with an uninterrupted history. Besides being a young businessman, Vacheron was also a talented craftsman. In 1770 his company created the first complication, and nine years later he designed the first engine-turned dials.
Swiss watchmaker Vacheron Constantin marked its 250th anniversary in 2005 with the world’s most complicated wrist watch—the Tour de l’Ile. The watch is so complicated that it required over 10,000 hours of research to create. Its name refers to one of the historical sites of the venerable company, located next to the current Maison Vacheron Constantin on the Quai de l’Ile.
Only produced in a limited edition of seven pieces, this expensive watch is also the most complicated double-face watch. Tour de l’Ile is made with a totally original combination of horological complications (that is, features beyond the simple telling of the time of day) and astronomical indications composing a list of sixteen different points including a minute repeater, sunset time, perpetual calendar, second time zone, a tourbillion device, the equation of time and a representation of the night sky.
Patek Philippe Sky Moon Tourbillon $1.3 million
Patek Philippe Sky Moon Tourbillon is a watch for $ 1.3 million more complicated clock in the series by Patek Philippe. It consists of 688 pieces, including some super modest and microscopic parts. The tourbillion moon from the sky is a clock created from a quite complex, with a platinum casing. It is produced only two units each and every year.
The Chopard Super Ice Cube: $1.1 million
This Chopard timepiece exhibits 60 carat of diamonds encrusted glory. The Ice Cube watch and jewellery line is a symphony of ice cubes made of white or yellow gold, diamonds and coloured stones.
Hublot Black Caviar Bang: $1 million
Once you wear Hublot Black Caviar Bang in your hand, you will find 18k of white gold and 322 grains of black gems totaling 25 karats lay in your wrist. The maker took 2000 hours of detailed meticulous workmanship to finish the Hublot Black Caviar Bang
Louis Moinet Magistralis: $860,000
If you want to bring a little part of the moon on your wrist, the answer is Louis Moinet Magistralis. This watch is made of 18 karat of Gold and little piece of 2000 years old moon meteorite. This meteorite is rarer and lot more precious than Gold. That what make the wrist watch carries huge price tag.
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