1. $5,120,000 Patek Caliber 89
Selling 3.5 Bugatti Veyrons, which is around 70% of the total number they sold in 2005, would be necessary to purchase this watch.
Most of us will only ever get to see a Veyron on Top Gear while salivating over it.
Perspective is everything, folks.
a trio of Veyrons
Declare it aloud: Three Veyrons.
So what gives this watch its $5.12 million value?
With 33 intricacies, it is the watch on the world with the most complications.
It has everything but the kitchen sink, but understanding it really takes a mechanical engineering degree.
Additionally, it took longer to design than you allotted for college (including the additional years you spent “studying” chemistry).
2. Patek Philippe Split Seconds Reference 1436 by Tiffany & Co. – $214,000
Given that it bears the name Tiffany & Co., you should expect to pay a high price.
But it’s actually rather affordable when compared to the other watches on our list.
If two hundred thousand dollars can ever be deemed affordable, that is.
What more could you ask for when you receive the names Patek and Tiffany?
You didn’t suppose those beautiful blue hands were just for show did you? The capacity to time two events that begin simultaneously but terminate at various times.
3. Ref. 5016P Patek Philippe – $762,000.
The Ref 5016P completes the Patek trinity of watches (The P stands for platinum, duh).
This watch ranks as Patek’s second-most complex timepiece (the first was a pocket watch, so it doesn’t count).
Adjustments are necessary with watches of this calibre, but Patek offers an app for that.
This moon-phase, perpetual calendar, retrograde giant won’t require adjusting until 2100 if you run it continually.
Your children’s children’s children will most definitely value that.
4. $XX,000,000 The Breguet Marie Antoinette
This watch, which Breguet himself initially developed, has 823 more components than an iPhone.
All of its features, excluding MMS messaging, include a minute repeater, perpetual calendar, equation of time, jumping hour, power reserve indication, and a bimetallic thermometer.
The original took forty-four years to build, and Marie Antoinette and Breguet both passed away before it was finished.
The original watch eventually vanished and was never seen again.
A hunt in the vein of Indiana Jones for the watch started after Swatch purchased Breguet.
When they ran out of time, they made a copy of the watch based solely on the original’s pictures.
Despite receiving bids in the eight-figure area, Breguet is refusing to sell.
5. Gyrotourbillon 1 by Jaeger-LeCoultre – $400 000
This watch is obviously sophisticated, yet it features a tourbillon, which some other watches do not.
A tourbillon is what?
a gravity-defying gadget worn on the wrist.
In the simplest terms, tourbillons stop precision from being negatively impacted by gravity.
This tourbillon rocks on two anti-gravity axes as opposed to the usual one.
When the third and fourth axes will be merged is yet unknown.
6. $234,000 Rolex Submariner
Everyone has held, worn, or owned a Rolex Submariner at some point in life.
The unique Steve McQueen handled, wore, and owned this one, making it distinctive.
That’s correct, this specific self-winding, stainless steel oyster band, submersible Rolex belonged to the “King of Cool.”
Time, a Rolex, and genuine badassery are yours.
7. $1,250,000 Vacheron Tour de l’Ile
Since its founding in 1755, Vacheron is the oldest watch maker currently in business.
Their 250+ year history enables them to produce watches that surpass the majority of others.
The Tour de l’Ile is the most complex serial wrist watch ever created, featuring a tourbillon, two faces, and more complexities and components than even the Breguet Marie Antoinette (preferably without the beheading).
It costs JUST a little less than a Veyron, unless you purchase secondhand.
8. Complication at Royal Oak Grande: $560,000
With the Royal Oak Grande Complication, Audemars Piquet (from which the abbreviation AP plainly derives) succeeds once more.
Another timepiece with a perpetual calendar accurate well into the future is the Grande Complication.
The minute repeater, split seconds chronograph, and perpetual calendar are just a few of the complications that it shares with other clocks, but it displays them in a fashion that doesn’t necessitate reading a thousand page instruction manual simply to understand them.
Real men don’t follow directions.
9. $525,000 Richard Mille Tourbillon
Examine it.
The Gugenheim appears to have had intercourse with a Rube Goldberg machine, and the result was a skeletonized offspring.
Although several of these timepieces have contemporary features, none of them have the watch’s contemporary design.
It would look fantastic next to the new transparent hood you just installed on the Ferrari and be made of aluminium, titanium, and other awesome materials.
10. $340,000 for the Ulysse Nardin Triplejack Minute Repeater
Although it may seem absurd, this watch seems to conceal some important historical information that only Nicolas Cage is capable of deciphering.
To divide the quarters from the minutes, the three Jacks may just be banging the bells.
Although this watch is more costly than a Ferrari, something about it feels more simpler.
When did you decide that all you wanted from your watch was the time?
