Moon Phase Pocket Watch
Most Expensive Watches
The most expensive watch to be ever made was a gold plated pocket watch which was sold at £7.12 million. It was the most complicated watch ever to be made involving 24 complications (complications are functions inside the watch other than the hour, seconds and the minute hands functions). This expensive watch was made by Patek Philippe for Henry GravesJr. It had an everlasting calendar with age and phases of the moon indication, sunset and sunrise indication, celestial charts showing constellation of stars. Before this watch the most expensive watch was Vacheron Constantin Tour de l'Ile which cost £0.91 million which was auctioned in Geneva in the ear 2005.
The titanic watches are one of the most expensive watches they cost around £99,846, it is made by the Swiss jewelers are now making watches that have the hull of the doomed Titanic. The metal is mixed along with steel that is used in shipbuilding, which makes the casing of the watch. The dials are made up with the burned coal that was recovered from the furnaces of The Titanic. Some of them are also made up of silver, steel, gold and diamonds.
Double Tourbillions are also made up of platinum case and includes grand complication. The blue-steel Bruguet dials are wound manually. This piece seems to be inspired by the solar system.
Tecnica Skeleton Chronograph is made up of a platinum case and includes complications that have a minute repeater, chronograph and tourbillion; it also includes a cathedral chime.
Classical Billionaire Tourbillion is made up of 850 diamonds and has a dazzling skeleton dial (hour and minute hands). This watch has been wound manually along with a 90 hour power reserve and also features Caliber CO-372. There are only ten of these watches available and they range from £212,334 to £652,219.
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