Chopard Happy Sport Diamantissimo: 1.302.450€

The “Happy Sport” watches collection are already the flagship of this jewelry maison. Therefore, to celebrate their 20th anniversary, they have created a unique piece referred to as a “masterpiece” and costs more than a million euros. They explain it combines the two specialties of the maison: fine jewelry and watchmaking. This watch is made of 18 carat white gold, set with 958 baguette-cut diamonds and 1,978 diamonds. In total 65 carats and 4,500 hours of which 1,700 have been used exclusively in the work setting.

Chopard Happy Sport Diamantissimo

Hublot Classic Fusion Haute Joaillerie: 880.000€

To understand its price it’s important to give some of the figures behind its production. It has 1,185 baguette-cut diamonds, carved in 4100 hours, 500 hours of dimensional and quality testing and four months of work by gem setters. Just the baguette-cut diamonds box has required a team of 15 people who have spent 1800 hours in the carving. What makes it special? Its 1,185 diamonds have been searched, gathered and purchased specially for this watch and come from Yakutsk in Eastern Siberia.

Hublot Classic Fusion Haute Joaillerie

Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Grand Complication: 703.100€

This watch is part of a limited edition of three pieces. The box is made of 18 carat pink gold, a crystal and sapphire fund with anti-reflective treatment, black ceramic bezel, crown and pushbuttons in white ceramic, while the strap is white rubber with a 18 carat pink gold buckle.

Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Grand Complication

Zenith Christophe Colomb Hurricane Grand Voyage: 262.000€

This clock made of 18 carat pink gold is part of a limited edition of ten copies and pays tribute to the explorer Christopher Columbus. The creation of this model was a challenge not only for craftsmen but also for watchmakers and engineers who had to redesign the movement to include decorations on the back (the three caravels and the face of Columbus) in the same pink gold box of 45mm diameter and under its domed sapphire crystal, without sacrificing an apex of accuracy and reliability.

Zenith Christophe Colomb Hurricane Grand Voyage

Panerai Lo Scienziato Luminor 1950 Tourbillon GMT: 132.000€

“Lo Scienziato” takes its name from one of the nicknames of the astronomer Galileo Galilei. Thanks to the exhaustive work known as “skeletonized” and to the sapphire glass window in the background, the manual winding movement with tourbillon escapement can be completely seen. The box is made of black ceramic.

Panerai Lo Scienziato Luminor 1950 Tourbillon GTM

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.

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– Tourbillon: Invented in 1795 by the French watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet. This mechanism calculates the effect of gravity and regulates the movement of the indicators to compensate the effects and achieve greater accuracy.

– Complication: This term refers to any feature beyond the simple display of hour, minute and seconds on a watch. The usual additions such as day, date and chronographs are not considered sufficient to be called complications. The more complications a watch has, the more difficult it is to design. A typical date chronograph can have more than 250 parts and particularly a composite clock may have thousands of additional parts of the mechanism. Watches with many complications are referred as Grandes complications.

– Timeless calendar: It’s a calendar that displays information on a range of time of several years.

– Minute repeater: This is a complication which provides overtones to determine the hours and often minutes at the press of a button. There are already many repeaters, from the simple sounding in the hours to the minute repeater that sounds in minutes, using different tones for the hours, quarters of an hour, and minutes. Originally used for reading the time in the dark and for people with visual problems.

10. Breguet pocket – Price: 734.000 dollars.
With 225 years of tradition in watchmaking, this pocket watch of the house of Breguet has a skeleton of 18 carat gold, engraved by hand and features the famous tourbillon.

Breguet pocket

9. Blancpain 1735, Grande Complication – Price: 800.000 dollars.
Within this watch there’s a hiden mechanism of 740 pieces and a year from the life of a dedicated watchmaker. It features a frame made ​​of platinum, gauges showing a timeless calendar, moon phases and a chronograph while traffic is what gives power, having the ability to store stock for 80 hours.

Blancpain 1735, Grande Complication

8. Louis Moinet Magistralis – Price : 860,000 dollars.
At sunset time it has a timeless calendar and astronomical indicator of the night sky.Only seven watches of this kind have been manufactured and will not be made more like them. Inside the watch is located a bit meteor hurled from the moon 2,000 years ago. The meteorite was certified by the University of California. The so-called Moonstone, is an extremely rare material, more expensive than gold and platinum combined. The drive of Magistralis was designed 100 years ago and pulsates with 18,000 vibrations per hour. The watch has a casing of 18 carat gold and features a chronograph and timeless calendar that shows the day and month for a period of four years.

Louis Moinet Magistralis

7. Hublot Black Caviar Bang – Price: 1.000.000 dollars.
This is a watch and a jewelry at the same time. The watch case is a 18 carat white gold and 322 diamonds fill every available space. The crystal is sapphire as the inner surface and the base behind the indicators is covered with 179 black diamonds. The device vibrates with 21,600 vibrations per hour and has a power reserve of 120 hours. Even if you have the money to buy it, forget it. Manufactured in a limited number of… ONE piece.

Hublot Black Caviar Bang

6. Chopard Super Ice Cube – 1.1 million dollars.
It is mainly a jewelry in the form of a watch. It features a 66-carat diamond.

Chopard Super Ice Cube

5. Patek Philippe Sky Moon Tourbillon – Price: 1.3 million dollars.
It is the most expensive wristwatch manufactured by the famous Swiss watchmaker and only two such watches are made every year, one of platinum and one of pink gold. The Sky Moon Tourbillon is the most complicated watch ever built by Patek Philippe watch and the first double-sided. The movement is made ​​by 686 mechanical parts which some of them are microscopic. It features a minute repeater with tourbillon, overtones with two cathedrals gkonk activated via a button on the rolling frame and timeless calendar with retrograde indicator. Turning the clock on the other hand, reveals a celestial view showing the sidereal time and a sky map that follows the stars and phases and orbit of the moon.

Patek Philippe Sky Moon Tourbillon

4. Vacheron Constantin Tour de l’lle – Price: 1.5 million dollars.
Regarded by many as the most complicated watch ever made, with a mechanism of 834 parts mounted on the frame with a diameter of 47 mm. This is also a double-sided clock. Designers house Vacheron Constantin took more than 10,000 hours of research and development to create it. Shows the time in two different zones.

Vacheron Constantin Tour de lalle

3. Patek Philippe’s Platinum World Time – Price: 4 million dollars.
This astounding amount given to an auction, making it the most expensive watch in 2002. Featuring self-rotating mechanism, illustrates each of the 24 time zones known for its readability, user friendliness, and the alternating tones for day and night.

Patek Philippeas Platinum World Time

2. Patek Philippe’s Supercomplication – Price: 11 million dollars.
Supercoplication and Super-expensive. The famous watchmaker completed this masterpiece in 1932 after four years of deep devotion in order to make this watch for Henry Graves Jr. It is double sided and features 24 complications.

Patek Philippeas Super Complication

1. 201 carat Chopard – Price: 25 million dollars.
If you look closely at the photo, you will see a watch among the 201 carats. This watch is accompanied by three heart-shaped diamonds. A 15-carat pink diamond, a 12 carat blue diamond and an 11-carat white diamond. More than 600 yellow diamonds are scattered around and 91 crystal diamonds.

201 carat Chopard

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On the Turbine which is of 44 mm in diameter, the characteristic upper rotor makes its evolutions below a rose gold 4N lined ring. Its bright rays radiates the surface while running. The hands, Arabic numerals and indices give an extra touch of light in the heart of a case of black DLC-treated steel. The loops of solid gold perfect the picture, accentuating the contrast and at the same time create the liaison with the precious crocodile strap. The Whirlwind Special Edition Black & Gold is limited to 77 copies, a figure that winks the year 1777, when the house Perrelet was born. Its automatic movement, P-331, was developed on the gauge manufacturing A10. With 42 hours of power reserve, beats at 28,000 alternations / hour. The Côtes de Genève finishing can be admired through the sapphire crystal case back.

The new XL Tourbillon home in a box of 50 mm in diameter is characterized by the refined two-tone effect. The bezel and the rose gold case-back are punctuated by grooves in relief of black DLC-treated steel. Majestic setting for a movement of prestige with one of the finest achievements of the watchmaking art. The Tourbillon appears at 12 o’clock decorated with silver crosses. The seconds tick above the center dial of hours and minutes. In the background you can see the black robe surfaces by architectural volumes.  The loops are in nuance with the rubber strap to enhance the maximum purity of this creation.

The Black & Gold Tourbillon is available in a limited edition of 20 copies. The automatic movement tourbillon P-311 has been developed for Perrelet in collaboration with MHJV, a subsidiary of the Group. With a frequency of 28,800 vibrations / hour and a power reserve of 65 hours this movement is decorated with Côtes de Genève finish visible through the bottom with sapphire crystal.