1. BREGUET GRANDE COMPLICATION MARIE-ANTOINETTE

Priced at a whopping $30,000.000, this watch was made for Marie Antoinette, the ill-fated French queen and was said to be commissioned by her lover. The work on this intricately designed watch was started by Abraham-Louis Breguet in 1782 but he passed on even before completing it. Fortunately, continued by his son, who finished the work in 1827, four years after the older Breguet’s death. The executed queen did not live to long enough to see the master piece which was enclosed in gold and where sapphire was used. Stolen in the late 1900s and was only returned in 2007, this luxurious watch is now on display at the L.A. Mayer Museum.

2. CHOPARD 201-CARAT WATCH

Still holding the throne as the most expensive jewelry watch today, this watch boasts of 874 diamonds considered to be rare. These include an internally flawless 15.37-carat naturally Fancy Pink, naturally Fancy Blue that has 12.79 carats and 3 pearl-shaped diamonds at 8.45 carats collectively. It appears bulky since the stones are not placed as if Chopard spent time analyzing how the stones will be set.  However, the details on this piece are amazing. The display is so small but no one will miss the diamonds almost eating up the face of the watch. Price tag is $25,000,000.

3. PATEK PHILIPPE – HENRY GRAVES – POCKET WATCH

With a price tag of $11,000,000, this complicated pocket watch made it to the top of the list of the most expensive watches in the world back in the early part of 2013. This 18-carat piece has 24 functions and was made in 1933 by Patek Philippe for Henry Graves.

Breguet watches

From the beginning of its journey, of which the starting point was in 1775, the Swiss fashion house has been dedicated to the mission of transferring the best in exceptional watchmaking creations. Today, as in the past, the Breguet name is synonymous with innovation, elegance, class and the stubborn search for both aesthetic and technical perfection. The brand’s models are true masterpieces, also in the versions for women.

Breguet watches

Breguet has given its name in watchmaking history, thanks to inventions such as the so-called parachute, the spiral with a raised terminal curve, rightly called the Breguet spiral. What’s more, we cannot miss mentioning the tourbillon, which is considered one of the finest complications that have ever existed, that all the watchmaking world admires and takes on an increasingly wider scale.

Breguet watches

The beautiful Swiss timepiece company, one of the oldest and most prestigious in the industry, creates what is caled an authentic jewelry on the wrist. Breguet is constantly working in the field of haute horlogerie since its founding. It should be stressed that the first seat, founded by Abraham-Louis Breguet, was done so while he was in Paris. Then came the move to Switzerland.

Breguet watches

In the models in the catalog, class and sophistication come together in a wonderful way, for the results of sublime artistic charm. From generation to generation, craftsmen of Breguet refused and refuse to give in to the lure of the facility, maintaining the unwavering determination to move more and more the boundaries of science that measures the passage of time, with extraordinary inventions such as the spiral and escapement in silicon or magnetic pin.

By +Nikos Kontorigas