Expensive watches or luxury watches are used as a symbol to show off wealth and success. For hundreds of years, it has been used as a status symbol. The brand’s reputation, quality, and price are what make a brand a luxury brand. The expensive watches are made from precious metals like gold and platinum combined with precious stones like diamonds and rubies. This requires a lot of manual effort and increases the longevity of the watch. Many watches today are combined with technology and can have various other functions also. The price of the most expensive watch can be more than $50 million. Below given are the top ten most expensive watches in the world.
- Graff Diamonds Hallucination
The Graff Diamond Hallucination is the most expensive watch in the world. It is also mentioned in the most expensive quartz watch. It is priced at $55 million. It contains 110 carats of diamonds in various colors and shapes like fancy pink, fancy yellow, fancy blue, and fancy green. Diamonds are present in shapes like heart, round, emerald, marquise, and pear. They are set into a bracelet made of platinum. It was brought to light at the Baselword watch and jewelry fair in 2014. It required the efforts of the best gemologists, designers, and craftsmen. The watch does full justice with its name and is truly breathtaking and fascinating.
- Graff Diamonds The Fascination
Graff Diamonds is a luxury brand known for its jewelry items. The founder or chairman of the company was inspired by the creation of The Fascination. He commented that the company was influenced by the rarest and precious diamonds available. He considers this watch as a celebration of their expertise in diamonds. The watch contains 152.96 carats of white diamonds and is priced at $40 million. It is a convertible watch with a pear-shaped diamond dial of 38 carats in the middle. The centerpiece can also be worn as a ring.
- Patek Philippe Grandmaster Chime
The Patek Philippe Grandmaster Chime Ref. 6300A- 010 is a two-dial watch designed and manufactured by Patek Phillipe SA. It is a Swiss luxury watch company located in the Canton of Geneva and owned by the Stern family in Switzerland. It is priced at $31 million and offers a dial at the front as well as at the back. It is the first Grandmaster Chime in steel and was designed for Only Watch. It has black dials made of ebony and inscribed with the words “The Only One”.
- Breguet No. 160
The Breguet No. 160 or Breguet Grande Complication Marie Antoinette is commonly known as the Queen. It is a mechanical gold watch designed by Swiss watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet. It took more than 40 years to complete this watch. It was made for the French queen named Marie Antoinette. it was stolen in the 1900s however, currently, it is safe and locked in the L.A. museum. It is priced at $30 million and is available for purchase.
- Chopard 201
Chopard 201 is designed and manufactured by a Swiss manufacturer of luxury watches and jewelry. The company is known for its high-quality watches and jewelry. The Chopard 201 consists of 874 high-quality diamonds of 201 carats. The watch is completely handmade and is priced at $25 million. The diamonds have various colors, sizes, and shapes. There are blue, yellow, pink diamonds in shapes like heart, pear, and flower. The design of the watch is very personal to the company and is famous among the royalties also.
- Patek Philippe Henry Graves Supercomplication
The Patek Philippe Henry Graves Supercomplication or the Supercomplication is a pocket watch with 24 complications. It is an 18 karat gold watch named after an American banker known as Henry Graves Jr. It was assembled by one of the oldest watch manufacturers i.e. Patek Philippe. It took more than 5 years to design this watch. It contains a perpetual calendar, celestial calendar, sunrise time, and sunset time. It is known as one of the most expensive pocket watches.
- Rolex Paul Newman Daytona Ref. 6239
The Paul Newman’s Rolex Daytona is manufactured by the British-founded Swiss watch designing and manufacturing company called Rolex. The watch is named after a movie star Paul Newman. He was also a race-car enthusiast who got the watch as a gift from his wife. It was engraved with the phrase “Drive Carefully, Me” and later the watch was gifted. It is an Art Deco-style watch with a black and cream dial. It was sold for $17.8 million within 12 minutes at an auction.
- Jacob and Co. Billionaire Watch
The Jacob and Co. Billionaire Watch is designed by a jewelry and wristwatch retailing company Jacob and Company. The company was founded by Jacob Arabo in 1986. The case and the bracelet of the watch are made of materials like 18 karats white gold and sapphire glass. It consists of 260 carats of diamonds in emerald shape and other 19 jewels. It is priced at $18 million.
- Vacheron Constantin 57260
The Vacheron Constantin 57260 is designed and assembled by a Swiss luxury watch and clock manufacturing company known as Vacheron Constantin SA. It is the only pocket watch with 57 complications. It is one of the most complicated mechanical watches. More than 7 years were dedicated by three watchmakers in the designing and creation of this watch. It has 242 jewels and 2826 components and is sold for $8 million to a client. It has features like a night mode and a Judaic calendar.
- Mouawad- Snow White Princess Diamond Watch
The Snow White Princess Diamond Watch is designed by a Swiss and Emirati company called Mouawad that makes luxury watches and jewelry. The watch was unveiled at the Doha Jewelry and Watch Exhibition, Qatar. It has 223 diamonds of various sizes with a total of around 107 carats. It also includes 18-carat white gold weighing around 100 grams. It is made with the best quality gemstones and shows off its expertise in designing and craftsmanship. It is priced at a total of $6.8 million.
