We always have our eyes on the next luxurious fashion selections of the rich, famous, and successful. Among a lot of things that they wear, it is usually their choice of luxury watches to wear that makes us stunned with admiration. Most, if not all, are quite interested in the latest and most fashionable pieces that the high fashion industry has released. As for watches, everyone cannot deny how precious and glamorous it all looked—and their looks are just one thing. Inside every luxury watch is its intricate engineering, carefully handmade by the best watchmakers in the industry. Most brands offer fancy accessories like Patek Philippe and Breitling straps to add more colors to your watch design. If you want to venture and know more about the most expensive and precious luxury watches in the world, you have come to the right place. Check this out!
1. Patek Philippe Ref. 1518
This Swiss-made watch brand has always been one of the best and most expensive luxury watch brands. Wearing a Patek Philippe watch will make you a head-turner. For one, Patek Philippe is so precious that not a lot of pieces are manufactured and sold in the market. They say that there are only less than a million Patek Philippe watches ever made since 1839. Its design, style, and prestige are the only contributing factors to why this brand is so famous and expensive. Watch lovers also love their Patek Philippe Nautilus collection.
This particular Patek Philippe watch was sold at an auction in 2016 for $11.1 million. What makes this so special is that it marked the beginning of the Patek Philippe supremacy. This timepiece, made in the year 1941, was the brand’s first wristwatch to showcase a perpetual calendar and a chronograph. It is the world’s first watch made in the series.
2. Paul Newman’s Rolex Daytona
Rolex is also one of the most famous and influential brands in the world—not just in luxury brand watches. Compared to Patek Philippe watches, Rolex watches are more affordable. Although, Rolex watches are still expensive in general. Rolex watches are also known for their participation in historical events in the industry of sports. Paul Newman’s Rolex Daytona was also sold in the auction for $17.8 million last 2017.
Paul Newman was a famous actor and race-car driver. He had used this Rolex watch every day for years, which is why it became more valuable than it already is. Newman’s Daytona watches with reference 6239 and made in 1968 offer an Art Deco style. His wife engraved phrases, “Drive Carefully, Me” on it.
3. Jacob & Co. Billionaire Watch
This watch is indeed the watch for the rich and famous. Jacob & Co. as a brand merges high jewelry and sophisticated timepieces. It is known as a brand that exercises creativity and everything glamorous and elegant. Watch lovers would also say that Jacob & Co. offers radical engineering with their watches.
The Jacob & Co. Billionaire Watch is truly a watch fit for billionaires because of its 260 carats of emerald-cut diamonds. It also has 19 jewels and 167 individual components. The face and the bracelet are also finely made with 18K white gold. Today, professional boxer, Floyd Mayweather owns the precious watch, buying it in June 2018 from Tadashi Fukushima.
4. Patek Philippe Supercomplication
Patek Philippe has made it again in the list, but this time, with a vintage (nearly antique) golden pocket watch. The Patek Philippe Supercomplication was made in 1933 by Patek Philippe. This watch was issued for banker Henry Graves Jr. This pocket watch showcases 24 complications, with a perpetual calendar and sunset and sunrise times. It also has a celestial calendar from Henry Graves Jr.’s apartment in the posh Fifth Avenue in New York.
5. Chopard 201 – Carat Watch
Chopard is also one of the many Swiss-made luxury watch brands that are often compared to Rolex. This watch brand has established prestige of its own. This $25 million Chopard watch is studded with 874 diamonds, having a total of 201 carats in different colors. In the middle of the Chopard watch are three diamonds cut in a heart shape. Its colors are pink, yellow, and blue.
6. Breguet No. 160
Some say that the original version of this watch was made for Marie Antoinette. In 1782, founder Abraham-Louis Breguet started tinkering on the watch. Breguet’s son completed this piece in 1827, but sadly, Marie Antoinette was already executed. This watch contained everything sophisticated and complicated for the watchmaking industry. It has a chime, thermometer, and perpetual calendar. You can see this watch displayed at the L.A. Mayer Museum in Jerusalem, priced at $30 million.
7. Graff Diamonds the Fascination
Graff Diamonds have been known for their diamond jewelry. This is why it no longer comes as a surprise that their $40 million-worth timepiece is made with 152.96 carats of diamonds. It has a center diamond with a 38.14-carat pear-shaped face. You can even detach the center diamond, so you can wear it as a ring.
8. Graff Diamonds Hallucination
Another from the diamond firm, this jewelry-like watch becomes the most expensive watch at $55 million. It is made with 110 carats of diamonds.
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Here are just some of the most expensive watches of all times. You do not have to worry because you can even buy a watch that is just as precious and durable! Find a reliable store like TheWatchCompany.com for you to find the right watch that will fit your style.
Salman is a prolific environmental writer, and has authored more than 500 articles in reputed journals, magazines and websites. He is proactively engaged in creating mass awareness on renewable energy, waste management, sustainability and conservation all over the world.
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