Showing posts with label Most Expensive Watches. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Most Expensive Watches. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Fourth Most Expensive Watch

Patek Philippe’s Platinum World Time

4million_Patek Philippes Platinum Worl

Again the super hero among the watchmakers Patek Philippe's product "The Platinum World Time" was sold at auction for over $4 million USD in 2002. It is believed that only one was created and, at the time, it was the most expensive wristwatch in the world.

The self-winding watch displays each of the 24 time zones and is known for its readability, user friendliness and having separate and switchable night and day tones.

In fact, Patek Philippe had produced all of the ten most expensive watches in the world. The company, headquartered in Geneva, made their first wristwatch in 1868. They had already made a name for themselves prior to that, however, by providing watches to Queen Victoria herself in 1851. Other notable customers include Pope Pius IX, a king and queen of Denmark, an Italian king and Saddam Hussein’s son-in-law.

Monday, July 13, 2009

Third most Expensive watch

Calibre 89

Patek Philippe Calibre89
Third most Expensive watch is also proudly creation of Patek Philippe.If you can remember you can see you met this name several times. Calibre 89 also one of historical watch in this world. If you can remember the Patek Philippe’s Supercomplication in 1933 that is the most complicated watch in that time i think you can remember that story too. After the competition over Patek Philippe doesn't stop his work. Result of that one of world historical watch, Calibre 89 made for celebration of the firm's 150 th anniversary in 1989 by Patek Philippe. only four were produced.

Calibre 89 With 33 complications, 1728 parts, and weight almost 3lbs. Calibre 89 is most complicated pocket watch too. It has more functions than Patek Philippe’s Supercomplication.

The complications of the Patek Philippe Calibre 89 include the phases of the moon, the date of Easter, the times of sunrise and sunset, indications of sidereal time and a star chart. one of this watch sold at the same auction which sold the Patek Philippe’s Supercomplication in 1999 for over $6 million.

Second Most Expensive Watchm

Patek Philippe’s Supercomplication



Patek Phillipe Super complication

The world second most expensive watch is Patek Philippe’s Supercomplication. This watch became the one of most expensive watch in the world when it was sold at auction in 1999 for over $11 million USD.
The gold pocket watch, which featured 24 complications, was the result of a long-standing competition between two magnates of America's Gilded Age. New York financier Henry Graves Jr. and Ohio automobile engineer James Ward Packard vied with one another to own a timepiece with the greatest possible number of complications. (Complications are mechanical functions of the watch other than the hours, minutes and seconds.) Packard commissioned 13 complicated watches from Patek Philippe between 1900 and 1927. They included a perpetual calendar with phases and age of the moon, indication of sunrise and sunset, and a celestial chart depicting the constellations of stars in the sky over Packard's home in Ohio.
This timepiece that took three years to design and five years to produce.When completed in 1933, the watch had a different horological function for each hour of the day and included a chart of the nighttime sky over Graves' home in New York.

The process eventually ended with a watch commissioned by Graves.Jr. Graves died in 1953, and his heirs sold the watch to the Time Museum in Rockford, Ill., in 1968. When the museum closed,the watch was sold at Sotheby's in 1999. All together(80 other pieces from the collection of Museum in Rockford), they brought $28 million. The Graves watch had a presale estimate of $3 million to $5 million, and sold for $11,003,500 to an anonymous collector.

Now it's a historical thing in the world. That was the most expensive watch till July 18th, 2008. After above day that title goes to another watch. but still now that atek Philippe’s Supercomplication is second place in list.

Most Expensive Watch

Chopard’s $25 million watch



25 million_201 carat Chopard

The Most Expensive watch in world history. That is Chopard’s $25 million watch.

Befour this the most expensive watch title owned to Patek Phillipe’s Supercomplication that is in 1999. but after in 2008 this title is changed then it owned to Chopard’s $25 million watch. that is how change history still now the Chopard’s $25 million watch is the Most expensive watch in the world.
This watch by Chopard features three heart-shaped diamonds, the pink weighs 15 carats, the blue weighs 12 carats and the white weighs 11 carats. They are set in a bracelet encrusted with clusters of white pear-shaped diamonds arrange in flower motifs, with a yellow diamond standing up from the center of each. Total caratweight of the white and yellow diamonds is 163 carats, while the total caratweight of the watch is 201 carats. The watch has a spring-loaded mechanism which, when pressed, allows the three heart shapes to mechanically open up, much the way the petals of a flower will in the sunshine. The watch face, pavé-set with small round yellow diamonds, is exposed from underneath the heart-shaped diamonds. The watch's pricetag is $25 million.


The specifications for a number of the diamonds are as follows:


- 1 heart-shaped diamond, natural Fancy Pink, Internally Flawess, 15.37 carats.
- 1 heart-shaped diamond, natural Fancy Blue, VS2, 12.79 carats.
- 1 heart-shaped diamond, D color, Flawless, 11.36 carats.
- 3 pear-shaped diamonds, natural Fancy Intense Yellow, 8.45 carats total.
- 26 pear-shaped diamonds, natural Fancy Intense Yellow, 17.07 carats total.
- 48 round diamonds, natural Fancy Yellow, 8.81 carats total.
- 260 pear-shaped diamonds, all D color, Flawless, 60.94 carats total.
- 91 round diamonds, D color, Flawless, 10.29 carats total.
- 443 FC diamonds, natural Fancy Intense Yellow, 4.95 carats total.

 


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