While reading about the 10 most expensive watches you will come across the word ‘Haute Horlogerie‘ quite often. Want to know why?
Because there lies a wide range of sophisticated, exciting, and delicate timepieces that are unique. From using the finest of diamonds to sapphires and gold to the perpetual calendar each horologist has reflected his level of expertise.
But these watches come with a hefty price tag that can become the fate of millionaires and billionaires and if not them then definitely museums.
Below is the list of the 10 most lavishing watches of 2022 that exist all across the globe. It doesn’t matter if the prices are over your range you can still have a look and decide which one is your favorite among them all.
10. Vacheron Constantin 56260 Pocket Watch – 8 Million USD
Cast in 18-karat gold, this pocket watch is a joint effort of three horologists who spent eight years creating it.
This is one luxurious watch made with 57 complications and 242 jewels embedded in it. There is a whole modern world in this watch as it has a Judaic calendar, a night alarm, and a chronograph. This was the first watch ever to have such technical features and was made for a private buyer.
What a spectacular timepiece at $8 million!
9. Patek Philippe Stainless Steel Ref. 1518 Stainless Steel Watch – 11.1 Million USD
In 1941 Patek Philippe designed a watch that became the then-most ultra-modern watch. It was a limited-edition run comprising four pieces only.
The body of this prestigious watch is made of the finest quality stainless steel and yellow gold. Additionally, its rare features include moon phases, tachymeter explanation, and Arabic hour markers.
8. Paul Newman Rolex Daytona Watch – 17.8 Million USD
This ‘exotic’ watch is still one of the most unique ones designed solely for racing drivers.
This watch was a present given to Paul Newman, the car race driver for thirty-five years, by his wife. The base of the watch touching the skin has ‘Drive Safely’ written on it. When put on the auction it led to a 12-minutes bidding war.
7. Billionaire Tourbillon White Diamond Watch – 18 Million USD
This Jacob & Co. Millionaire watch is a sophisticated watch with 177.11 carats of diamonds.
The watch is delicately manufactured as reflected by its skeletonized inner body having web-like structures. The diamonds are set in such an exquisite manner that their supporting metal remains invisible. The diamond-made bracelet is also one of its kind and has six links.
6. Patek Philippe Henry Graves Supercomplication Pocket Watch – 24 Million USD
Thinking about “Supercomplication”?
So, the watch was crafted in 1933 by Patek Philippe and is said to be the most complicated watch having 23 complications, or features.
This tiny timepiece is handcrafted and took seven years for its complicated manufacture.
A few of the qualities and features that the stunning watch holds are a perpetual calendar, sunset and sunrise times, and a celestial calendar.
5. Chopard 201-Carat Watch – 25 Million USD
Karl-Friedrich Scheufele, the CEO of Chopard is the forerunner of the company’s heritage and excellence in manufacturing such sophisticated jewelry.
I guess you know that the price is justified as you look at the title, but let me tell you the details that make this watch one-of-its-kind; this dazzling handmade accessory has a 12-carat blue diamond, 15-carat pink diamond, and D-colour flawless diamonds beside pear-shaped yellow diamonds.
4. Jaeger-LeCoultre Joaillerie 101 Manchette Watch – 26 Million USD
Jaeger-LeCoultre assembled this sophisticated timepiece to honor Queen Elizabeth II for serving sixty years as a queen in 2012.
A gift for the Royals is meant to be royal too! Fulfilling that, the company manufactured the watch using white gold, embellished it with diamond, and there lies a silver dial beside a crafted crown.
3. Marie-Antoinette Pocket Watch – 30 Million USD
Ever heard of a watch during whose manufacture the designer died and the beloved died whose wrist was to glisten from the watch? Well, that’s the story behind the third most expensive watch on our list, as it took forty long years during its full process.
The event dates as far back as 1783, when a secret lover of Marie-Antoinette, the French Queen, ordered Abraham-Louis Breguet for a pocket watch. The secret admirer wanted Breguet to make the then-best piece of Haute Horlogerie.
The watch was manufactured in 1827, with numerous complications, and was encased in gold. However, neither the queen nor Breguet saw the final results.
2. Graff Diamonds: The Fascination Watch – 40 Million USD
What if I tell you that the $40 million Fascination watch comes with a gift… and that too is made of diamond?
It’s true!
Regardless of the 152.96 carats of the finest white diamonds, the watch is further embellished by an interchangeable, pear-shaped, 38-carat diamond. You got that right!
When not in the mood to wear the timepiece, go ahead and wear it as an outrageous bracelet, with the diamond placed at the heart of the watch, or just wear it as a ring.
1. Graff Diamonds: Hallucination Watch – 55 Million USD
The Hallucination Watch by the Graff Diamond is a prestigious, sophisticated, and the most expensive watch in the world.
The Hallucination has set a new record for the Horlogerie as it has a hefty price tag of a whopping $55 million.
Lauren Graff, the CEO, has made the watch with faith to celebrate the blessing of colored diamonds. The Hallucination was unveiled during the Baselworld ceremony in 2014. It has a delicately placed tiny quartz dial surrounded by 110 carats of uniquely colored diamonds, all placed on a platinum bracelet.
Now that’s truly the most expensive watch!
