The 10 Most Expensive Watches in the World ~ DepoTech

Have you ever wondered, what are the most expensive watches in world?
Here I am going to tell you about 10 of most expansive watches. There are many intricate details in million dollar watches like expensive stones, diamonds and gems that are encrusted into them jacking up their price. These watches have complicated mechanisms inside that make time telling as accurate as it could be. Some are equipped with the tourbillion, an intricate mechanism that counters the effects of gravity.
These complexities definitely increase the selling price of these expensive watches in the world

10. Piaget, Emperador Temple – $3.3 Million

A Swiss luxury watchmaker, Piaget was founded in 1874 by George Piaget. Initially only concerned with the production of watch movements, Piaget began developing its own watches in the 20th century.
The Piaget Emperador Temple is, as we call it, fully iced. There are 481 brilliant-cut diamonds, 207 baguette-cut diamonds and an emerald-cut diamond on the top of the case. And that’s just the first part of the case. The second part of the case, containing another watch now with a tourbillon, has a dial made of Polynesian mother-of-pearl and is set with 162 brilliant-cut diamonds and 11 baguette-cut diamonds. The bracelet is set with 350 baguette-cut diamonds.

9. Patek Philippe, 1928 Single-Button Chronograph – $3.6 Million

Founded in 1851, Patek Philippe & Co. was started when Polish watchmaker Antoni Patek teamed up with French watchmaker Adrien Philippe. Since then, the company has been known for producing time pieces of the highest quality. Looking at this 1928 watch, you may wonder why such a ‘normal’ looking watch can fetch such a high price. First, it’s a Patek Philippe which automatically ensures its build quality. Second, this particular cushion-shaped watch is the only surviving white gold version known to exist from Patek Philippe. Additionally, it has Breguet numerals and vertically positioned registers. Records show the watch was created especially for an anonymous buyer just one year before the Great Depression struck.

8. Patek Philippe, 1939 Platinum World Time – $4.1 Million

One of Patek Philippe’s Time Collection pieces, only one unit of this Platinum World Time Watch was manufactured, way back in 1939. The watch is capable of showing the time in 42 different cities of the world, has a self-winding mechanism, and it doesn’t look too bad either.

7. Louis Moinet, Meteoris – $4.6 Million

This watch is out of this world. No, really. The Louis Moinet Meteoris is actually made from pieces of the moon (and an asteroid and a meteorite too). The Meteoris set includes 4 separate timepieces –

The Tourbillon Mars – which is made from a fragment of Mars more than 180 million years old !

The Tourbillon Asteroid – made from the Itqiy meteorite said to form close to the sun thousands of years ago before it fell to the Earth

The Tourbillon Moon – made from a fragment of the moon’s surface, thousands of years old.

The Tourbillon Rosetta Stone – which is made from the rare Sahara 99555 meteorite, which could be a rock from Mercury, and as old as the Solar System itself at a stunning 4.66 billion years old.

6. Breguet & Fils, No.2667 Precision Stop-Watch – $4.6 Million

Since the 18th century, the watches of Abraham-Louis Breguet have attracted crowds whenever they come up for auction. Breguet’s watchmaking skill was second to none and the quality of his products attracted the biggest names of his time. Notable customers and patrons of Breguet included Louis XVI, Napoleon Bonaparte, Tsar Alexander I, King George III, Arthur Wellesley and Queen Victoria. Helping Breguet to claim spot number six on this list is a two movement stop-watch. The 18 karat gold and platinum piece is, understandably, built to the highest standards. Sold in 1814 for a mere 5,000 francs (about $18,000 in today’s terms), this stopwatch commands a price of $4.6 million.

5. Hublot Big Bang – $5 Million

A world first, a unique piece, an exceptional and incredibly rare feat. And a completely different approach was used for its creation. Unlike an Haute Joaillerie piece, where the design and technical construction are created to "emphasise and serve" stones which have already been selected, the opposite approach was adopted. The diamond cutters started with a design and then found the diamonds which best matched the complex construction of the case, dial and bracelet. Cutters and setters then employed all of their expertise to resize them to ensure a perfect fit.

First challenge: to develop the design of the Big Bang, whilst retaining its graphic codes to ensure it cohesively integrates more than 3 carats of diamonds. Once the technical design was finalised, then the diamonds had to be found and combined. It took one year for the largest stones which came from all four corners of the world, and the same for the 1276 others. Every stone was individually selected to ensure that all were of a consistent quality and colour. They then had to be resized, one by one, to make them a perfect fit for the watch. A renowned "master cutter" from New York with over 40 years' experience was responsible for single-handedly cutting.

4. Patek Philippe, ‘Calibre 89’ – $6 Million

Most of the other Patek Philippe watches on this list are relatively old creations. Not this one. In 1989, the Swiss luxury watchmaker decided to celebrate its 150th anniversary with what the company has called the most complicated watch in the world. It has 18 complications (features) and is two-sided. In addition to all the usual abilities you’d expect in a watch, this one includes such features as a star-chart, thermometer, sunrise and sunset indicator, chronometer, moon-phase indicator and full calendar with days, months and years. From start to finish it took 9 years worth of research, development and manufacturing to produce four of these watches.

3. Patek Philippe, Henry Graves Jr. Supercomplication Pocket Watch – $11 Million

And, again, a Patek Philippe, a brand that is famous for the many highly collectible watches that are sold for millions at auctions. Here’s the Patek Philippe Supercomplication, a yellow-gold pocket watch, that was created for banker Henry Graves Jr. in 1932. Graves had a competition with James Ward Packard (of the Packard car company) for having the world’s most complicated watch. This Patek Philippe Supercomplication ensured Graves of winning this contest, and it was Patek Philippe who created a watch with even more complications (the Patek Philippe Caliber 89).

2. Chopard 201-Carat – $25 Million

Runner-up on today’s list is a watch – and I do use that term loosely- which looks as though it was created by a child with left over jewels, beads, glitter and a bunch of glue. That said, this creation by Swiss luxury watch maker Chopard isn’t really about the watch itself, but the 201 carats worth of diamonds covering it. In total there are 874 diamonds ranging in size and color with the largest being a 15 carat pink diamond. The three largest heart-shaped diamonds are linked to a spring-loaded mechanism which ‘opens’ them like petals on a flower to reveal the watch face. We’re sure the watch itself is of the highest quality. It’s just a bit hard to see past all of those glittering diamonds.

1. Breguet Grande Complication, Marie Antoinette – $30 Million

Thirty million dollars? Yes, you read it right. Thirty with six zeros. This is the world’s most expensive watch,

Marie-Antoinette was driven by a truly passionate desire for Breguet watches. Keen to possess any auspicious novelty, she had acquired a number of timepieces, including a «perpétuel» watch embellished with a self-winding device developed by Breguet. In 1783, one of her admirers ordered from the workshops in the Quai de l’Horloge, the most spectacular watch possible, incorporating the entire body of horological science of the time, as a gift to the queen. The order specified that gold should, wherever possible, be used instead of other metals, and that the complications should be both multiple and varied. Unconstrained by limitations of cost or time, Breguet had a free hand.

The queen never had the opportunity to admire the timepiece. It was not completed until 1827, 34 years after her death, 44 years after it was ordered and four years after the death of the founder. Breguet n° 160, known as the «Marie-Antoinette», entered into watchmaking legend from 1783. Its extreme complexity, its roots and its story, as fabulous as it is epic, have haunted the watchmaking landscape and the minds of collectors for more than two centuries. More recently, its destiny shrouded in mystery – stolen from a Jerusalem museum and lost for decades – has written a new page in the saga.

In 2005, Nicolas G. Hayek set himself the challenge of reproducing it identically. He then heard about the fate of the oak of the palace of Versailles, the queen’s favourite tree, which had to be felled, and decided to give it a second life by fashioning from its wood the presentation case of the watch. Versailles offered the tree to Montres Breguet which, as a token of its gratitude committed itself to the restoration of the Marie-Antoinette domain. Just when the manufacture of the watch reached its end in 2007, the spoils of the 1983 robbery suddenly appeared as if by magic in Jerusalem. The saga continues. Montres Breguet has to date not yet had the opportunity to inspect them.