Having expensive and luxury watches is the passion of great personalities in the world. They are produced by prominent watch brands and main producers are from Switzerland. They also have a long history, their own unique developments, and a long history. It is impossible to make an unambiguous rate of the watches brands because their advantages are determined by a whole range of criteria.
Some people appreciate the prestige and popularity of the brand, others – the complexity and perfection of the movement. Some evaluate exclusivity or design. Some count the efforts being done to produce such masterpieces over a long course of time.
For others the history of the brand and outstanding personalities connected with it are important. However, there are watch companies which will take place in the top positions of the rate anyway. They are a super-premium class, most expensive branded watch, beautiful designer both for men and women.
Many of them are still based in the small and picturesque Alpine cities of La Chaux-de-Fonds and Le Locle, both of which were declared World Cultural Heritage sites in 2009 because of their illustrious heritage. At one time, half the world’s watches were manufactured here.
Visitors can still tour the workshops and factories, and even learn the basics of watchmaking by taking apart and reassembling a basic mechanism. Now presents, world top most expensive and luxurious watch up to 2018 starting from 7th position to 1st.
It was sold for 11,002,000 Swiss francs! That’s around 11,136,642 USD.
The reason why it fetched such a high amount is rather odd, it’s the fact that it has stainless steel casing, a very rare thing since almost all luxury watches Patek made with yellow or rose gold. While most other watches on this list get their value from the jewels added to the watch, this is part of a very limited edition 4 piece series.
This feels less like a watch and more like a crown. The Jacob & Co Billionaire watch is certainly one of the most luxurious watches in the world. It’s like they looked at the 5 million dollar Hublot we mentioned before and said: “Yeah, we can do better”.
We couldn’t talk about the most expensive watches in the world. without having a billionaire worthy watch couldn’t we?
Adorned with 260 carats-worth of brilliant emerald-cut diamonds, it features a handcrafted movement comprising 167 components and 19 jewels. Just to put things into perspective.
If you had the money to buy this particular watch, but instead you put it in a decent portfolio that pays 7% interest, you’d be earning 1.3 million dollars every year, just on the interest.
The company wasn’t playing around when they said this is a Billionaire’s Watch.
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5. PATEK PHILIPPE -HENRY GRAVES POCKET WATCH ( Price: $ 24 Million)
5. PATEK PHILIPPE -HENRY GRAVES POCKET WATCH ( Price: $ 24 Million)
It used to be the most expensive pocket watch the world had ever seen!
It was sold for $11 Million back in 1999 if we adjust for inflation and the economic environment + its novelty factor this piece could easily go for over $15 Million if it was to be resold. They wanted to put that theory to the test. Last year it went on Sale and it fetched a record-breaking 24 million dollars.
It happens to be one of the most complicated and complex pockets watches in the world with over 24 functions!
Made out of 18-carat gold the watch used to be the world’s most expensive pocket watch until late 2013 when one piece dethroned it.
Now it’s at the 5th spot!
4. CHOPARD 201 CARAT POCKET WATCH TIMEPIECE- (Price: $30 Million)
With 874 rare diamonds, the Chopard 201-carat watch used to be the world’s most expensive watch and still is the 4th highest priced jewelry watch out on the market! Rest assured that the entirely handmade watch is well worth its price tag
Sold in the year 2000 for this unbelievable amount of $25 million it made the front page of every luxury publication at the time.
Rich Glare revealed that it contains 874 high-grade diamonds of different colors and sizes. At the centre of the glinting white gold and yellow gold, the hardware is an internally flawless heart-shaped pink diamond that weighs 15.37 carats, a 12.79-carat heart-shaped blue diamond and a flawless heart-shaped D-color diamond weighing 11.36 carats. Each of those stones is set in a bracelet that also contains clusters of 260 pear-shaped D-colour flawless diamonds and 91 round D-colour flawless diamonds weighing 10.29 carats total, which are arranged into flower shapes that feature around 8.81-carat yellow diamond in the center. Additionally, 26 pear-shaped yellow diamonds that together weigh 17.07 carats are scattered throughout the bracelet.
When one presses the spring-loaded mechanism in the piece, the three heart-shaped stones open like flower petals exposed to the sun, exposing the pavé-set watch face, which contains three pear-shaped yellow diamonds that total 8.45 carats.
Add in the fact that Chopard has an excellent reputation within the jewelry industry, and you have a timekeeper that's clearly coveted by collectors. The Richest explained that all of the company's watches are constructed in-house. The attention to detail is also incomparable - in fact, the Swiss watchmaker's timepieces do not depend on any of the ebauches or base movements for functionality that others often do.
Chopard stands for creativity and innovation but also history, craftsmanship and a family tradition,"
The specifications for a number of the diamonds are as follows:-
– 1 heart-shaped diamond, natural Fancy Pink, Internally Flawless, 15.37 carats.
– 1 heart-shaped diamond, natural Fancy Blue, VS2, 12.79 carats.
– 1 heart-shaped diamond, D color, Flawless, 11.36 carats.
– 3 pear-shaped diamonds, natural Fancy Intense Yellow, 8.45 carats total.
– 26 pear-shaped diamonds, natural Fancy Intense Yellow, 17.07 carats total.
– 48 round diamonds, natural Fancy Yellow, 8.81 carats total.
– 260 pear-shaped diamonds, all D color, Flawless, 60.94 carats total.
– 91 round diamonds, D color, Flawless, 10.29 carats total.
– 443 FC diamonds, natural Fancy Intense Yellow, 4.95 carats total.
That photo above is Breguet's Marie Antoinette Number 1160, a 63mm pocket watch crafted from gold, and one of the world’s most complicated pocket watches. Technically, it's a replica of a watch made in 1783 that we thought was lost to history, until its miraculous recovery in 2007. It can also be called as "GOLDEN WATCH", also a "Men's Luxury Watch" and can be in the list of Buy Watch.
Breguet Grande Complication Marie-Antoinette is the most expensive pocket watch in the world priced at $30 million! It was commissioned by an alleged lover of Marie Antoinette, the French queen. It’s making began in 1782 by Abraham-Louis Breguet and was finished in 1827 by his son, 4 years after his death. Marie Antoinette did not get to see the watch since it was completed 34 years after her execution, but we can be sure she would’ve been impressed.
The result, is an amazing piece of design, class, and technology containing every function that was possible at that time and it was encased in gold, displaying the intricate mechanism running it, Breguet used sapphire to lower the friction within the piece.
The watch was the most complex timekeeper in the world. Nearly a dozen complications fit inside, all of them powered by a massive rotor. It displays central jumping hours and minutes, an independent central seconds hand, running seconds at six o'clock, a, full perpetual calendar with the month at eight o’clock, the day at six o’clock, and a date hand at two o'clock, plus equation of time at 10 o'clock, a 48-hour power reserve indicator at 11 o'clock, and a thermometer at one o’clock. Yeah, it's a lot.
The watch was stolen in the late 1900s and retrieved only in 2007. Every since every top watch connoisseur wanted it. As of 2018, the watch is valued at at least $30 Million.
Currently the watch is secured at the L. A. Mayer museum so you can see it live if you’re in the area.
2. GRAFF DIAMOND FASCINATION WATCH - Price (40 Million)
Graff Diamonds have unveiled the world’s most valuable transformable timepiece “The Fascination”, a £27.3 million transformable watch and can be converted into Ring Watch. The most expensive watch is exhibited at Graff’s Baselworld stand, located at Hall 1.1, Stand D51. The Fascination is a one-of-a-kind bracelet-cum-watch, encrusted with a mind-boggling 152.96 carats of Graff’s finest white diamonds, adds a report. The Fascination’s transformability comes courtesy of a central 38.13-carat, a pear-shaped diamond graded as D Flawless. It is the carefully crafted internal mechanism due to which, this stone can be removed from the bracelet and fitted into a bespoke ring shank. A diamond watch face can then be inserted in its place, making the Fascination one of the most expensive three-in-one jewels ever created, with a value of around $40 million (£27.3 million). According to Laurance Graff, the founder and chairman of Graff Diamond “The Fascination is an outstanding piece, carefully crafted so it can be worn in a number of different ways-adding a touch of magic to the jewel”.
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1. GRAFF: THE HALLUCINATION – MOST EXPENSIVE, JEWELRY LADIES WRIST WATCH ($55 MILLION)
Graff Diamonds staff are said to have spent thousands of hours making the new ladies watch, which was unveiled at the Baselworld watch and jewelry fair in Switzerland in 2014.
Encrusted with beautiful multicolored and rarest rare diamonds, the Hallucination contains 110 carats worth of diamonds set into a bracelet of platinum, which has been scrupulously inserted over years, one after another, by master craftsmen to create this colorful and impressive masterpiece. With a colorful layering of diamonds, it is the most efficient watch in the world and is certainly one of the most spectacular. If you look really close at the bundle of gems you can see a tiny quartz dial in the middle of it framed by pink diamonds.
Mr Graff, who started out as a jewelry apprentice, founded the company in 1960. In 1967, with stores already open in London, Mr. Graff expanded his business into Asia, opening up a jewelry concession in Singapore. Six years later, he became the first jeweler to win a Queen's Award to Industry. He went on to win this again in 1977, 1994 and 2006.
The company, which has flagship shops in Knightsbridge and on New Bond Street, opened its first store outside the UK in Monaco in 2000.
Graff Diamonds now has outlets across the world, including in the United States, Russia, South Africa, China, and Japan.
Mr. Graff was awarded at OBE in 2013 for services to the jewellery.
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