Top 10 Most Expensive Watches In The World
10. Hublot Big Bang – $5 million
Hublot’s Big Bang watch contains 1,282 diamonds in total, including more than 100 carats of baguette diamonds and 6 emerald-cut diamonds weighing more than 3 carats each. Beyoncé purchased this watch for Jay-Z as a birthday present in 2012.
9. Vacheron Constantin 57260 – $8 million
Another fairly complicated watch, the Vacheron Constantin has 57 complications, some of which are unique including multiple calendars and a double retrograde split-seconds chronograph. It has a whopping 2,800 parts and the push buttons are enclosed within a white gold casing.
8. Patek Philippe Ref. 1518 – $11.1 million
In late 2016, the stainless steel-cased Patek Philippe ref. 1518 sold at auction for just over $11 million. Patek Philippe produced the 1518 model in 1941, making it the first perpetual calendar chronograph wristwatch every produced in a series.
7. Paul Newman Rolex Daytona - $ 17.7 Million
The most expensive timepiece ever sold at auction, originally belonging to Paul Newman as a gift from his wife.
6. Jacob & Co. Billionaire Watch – $18 million
This watch has over 260-carat baguette cut diamonds. Under the diamonds, there is a white gold encasing for the actual watch.
5. Patek Philippe Supercomplication – $24 million
This gold pocket watch was created in 1933 by Patek Philippe for banker Henry Graves Jr. The watch took 5 years to design and build and features 24 complications, including a perpetual calendar, sunrise and sunset times, and a celestial calendar from Graves’ apartment on Fifth Avenue in New York.
4. Chopard 201-Carat Watch – $25 million
This stunning watch contains 874 diamonds, totaling 201 carats, in an array of colors. The center of the Chopard watch is comprised of three heart-shaped diamond in yellow, pink, and blue.
3. Breguet No. 160 – $30 million
Created by Breguet himself for the Queen. Completed after both their deaths. Stolen in 1983 but discovered in 2007. The original is not sold but Breguet unveiled an exact replica in 2008.
2. Graff Diamonds the Fascination – $40 million
Graff Diamonds created The Fascination watch, which contains 152.96 carats & The center diamond is 33 carats and can be removed to be worn as a ring.
1.Graff Diamonds Hallucination – $55 million
this unprecedented watch is made up of 110 carats of diamonds. Diamonds of all colors, including Fancy Pink, Fancy Yellow, Fancy Green, and Fancy Blue, & the design was worked upon by John Graff himself along with gemologists and craftsmen over thousands of hours.
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