Luxury watches have always been considered pieces of jewelry and status symbols rather than just timepieces. In fact, there are several watches in the world that are worth millions of dollars. Beyond luxury watches, these also include timepieces with historical significance and masterful craftsmanship. Some of these watches are also equipped with numerous complications—meaning the additional features apart from telling time—which further add to their mechanical marvel and overall worth.
Graff Diamonds Hallucination
The first watch on this list is from Graff Diamonds and it was created from the vision of the company’s chairman, Laurence Graff. The watch, titled Hallucination, features a combination of 110 carats of diamonds, all of which are in different colors and cuts. The various colors include Fancy Pink, Fancy Yellow, Fancy Green, and Fancy Blue. And the different cuts of the diamonds include heart, pear, round, marquise, and emerald. But it is not only the diamonds that make the Hallucination such a rare and luxurious piece. All of these diamonds are embedded into a platinum bracelet, which further adds to the watch’s worth. Owing to such a dazzling and rare assortment of diamonds and a precious metal, this watch is worth around $55 million.
Graff Diamonds The Fascination
The second most expensive watch in the world is also from Graff Diamonds, titled The Fascination. This watch was manufactured in 2015, and it features an assortment of 152.96 carats of white diamonds. The central dial of the watch is a huge pear-shaped diamond, which is 38.13 carats. This pear-shaped diamond is a detachable gem, which can also be worn as a ring. The Fascination from Graff Diamonds is worth around $40 million.
Patek Philippe Grandmaster Chime Ref. 6300A-010
Valued at around $31 million, this watch was created in 2014 to celebrate the 175th anniversary of the brand, Patek Philippe. The most interesting feature of this watch is that it has a dual-dial design. This means that the watch has a face on both sides of the dial. Moreover, both these dials are made with solid 18K gold and feature masterful hand engravings. Apart from these, one of the most impressive features of the watch is that it has around 20 complications! This in itself is an indication of what an amazing piece of engineering the watch is. Among the 20 complications of the watch, some of the most notable ones include an acoustic alarm, five different chimes, a minute repeater, a date repeater, a power reserve indicator, a day-and-night indicator, and a moon phase display.
Breguet Grande Complication Marie Antoinette
This is a pocket watch from 1827, with an interesting history. The watch, which bears the name of the French Queen Marie Antoinette, was commissioned for her by Count Hans Axel von Fersen. It was rumored that von Fersen was the Queen’s lover. As per the story, von Fersen had asked the watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet to design the timepiece. It took Breguet a long span of 40 years to create the watch, and by then, both the Queen and von Fersen had passed. The watch is made of gold and features various interesting complications, such as a minute repeater, a perpetual calendar, a thermometer, and a celestial chart of the night sky as seen over Paris. Thanks to the interesting origin, the allure of gold, and a range of complications, the watch is valued at around $30 million.
Jaeger-LeCoultre Joaillerie 101 Manchette
This is yet another watch on the list that was made for a queen. The watch was created in 2012, for Queen Elizabeth II, to commemorate 60 years of her reign. Made with white gold, the watch also features a hand-wound mechanism and a sapphire glass-covered clock. More interestingly, the design of this timepiece is inlaid with 577 diamonds. And if that wasn’t rare enough, the watch also features the miniature Caliber 101 movement. For the unversed, this is one of the smallest possible mechanical movements in the world. With such distinctive features and history, the timepiece makes it to the list of the most expensive watches in the world, with a value of around $26 million.
Patek Philippe Henry Graves Supercomplication
This watch from Patek Philippe is titled Supercomplication for the numerous intricate complications it is equipped with. It is a pocket watch that was made in 1933, for Henry Graves, an American banker. Among the several complications that it features, the most interesting one is a celestial chart that depicts the night sky as seen from the residence of Henry Graves in New York. Besides this, the watch also features a minute repeater, sunrise and sunset times, and a calendar, among other things. The Supercomplication, which took around seven years to be completed, is worth around $26 million.
Chopard 201- Carat
Featuring a whopping 874 diamonds, this watch from the year 2000, is worth around $25 million. It is not only the 874 diamonds that make it so rare, unique, and valuable but the kind of diamonds the watch features and the way it features them add to its value. To be precise, the watch has a combination of three heart-shaped diamonds in the center, which are attached to a spring mechanism. So, with the push of a button, the three diamonds open up to show the face of the watch. That’s not all. The watch face is further embedded with three pear-shaped yellow diamonds. Apart from this, the timepiece also includes an 11-carat white diamond, a 12-carat blue diamond, and a 15-carat pink diamond.