The Most Expensive Watches in The World

Watches are not always sold at the bargain prices available on Find Watches that is for sure! The world of watches stretches up to dizzying proportions. Watches from the finest watch manufacturers in the world go for many millions . Rare watches sold at auctions frequently exceed expert opinions on their worth as collectors fight to own rare time pieces.

Pocket Watch – $11,003,500 Dollars

The most expensive watch to ever be sold at auction was a special commision watch designed and made by technicians at Patek Philippe. The gold pocket watch sold at Sothebys for a staggering $11,003,500 in December 1999 to a private bidder. You may be wondering what could possible make a watch worth so much money. It is a matter of superiority of design using the best quality materials plus an internationally famed history.

The super complication pocket watch was made in 1932 for a New York banker, Henry Graves Jr.. He was competing with an acquaintance, an Ohio Automobile salesman James Ward Packard, to own a watch with the highest number of complications. A complication is a function on a watch beyond display of the time and date. The Patek Philippe watch that was commissioned took four years to create and had 24 complications, a feat that was not bested until over 50 years later when the same watch manufacturer created a 33 complication pocket watch in18 carat gold. The calibre 89, as it is known, went for $6 million; demonstrating the value of historical interest in collectable watches.

Ladies Watch – $25 Million Dollars

The most expensive watch to be sold new was an amazingly lavish ladies watch made by Chopard. The watch mechanism is not the reason that this watch was so expensive. This ladies watch is encrusted with 201 carats of diamonds. The glittering time piece was reportedly sold for $25 million at the beginning of the year 2000. This Chopard watch boasts a 15 carat pink diamond, a 12 carat blue diamond and an 11 carat white diamond all of the highest quality. A further 163 carats of white and yellow diamonds finish off the watch. This exceedingly expensive watch lacked in practicality as the dial is of a minimal size in comparison to the watch, but I suppose that if you have enough money for that watch you probably don’t need to worry about the time too much!

If these watches are a bit out of your budget you should have a look through our discount watches shop, where you will definitely find something to suit your pocket as well as your taste. We stock a range of diamond set watches and pocket watches as well as designer watches from Police Watches and Karen Millen watches and many others for lots of different occasions.