Mid-November 2016 at the Phillips in Association with, an incredibly rare Patek Philippe Man Wristwatch was auctioned off.



































































The Jacob & Co Billionaire watch This feels less like a watch and more like a crown.is certainly one of the most luxurious watches in the world. It’s like they looked at the 5 million dollar Hublot we mentioned before and said: “Yeah, we can do better ”.





Adorned with 260 carats-worth of brilliant emerald-cut diamonds , it features a handcrafted movement comprising 167 components and 19 jewels

If you had the money to buy this particular watch, but instead you put it in a decent portfolio that pays 7% interest, you’d be earning 1.3 million dollars every year, just on the interest.

The company wasn’t playing around when they said this is a Billionaire’s Watch.



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5. PATEK PHILIPPE -HENRY GRAVES POCKET WATCH ( Price: $ 24 Million )





It used to be the most expensive pocket watch the world had ever seen!





It was sold for $11 Million back in 1999

It happens to be one of the most complicated and complex pockets watches in the world with over 24 functions!





Made out of 18-carat gold the watch used to be the world’s most expensive pocket watch until late 2013 when one piece dethroned it.

Now it’s at the 5th spot!

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Sold in the year 2000 for this unbelievable amount of $25 million it made the front page of every luxury publication at the time.





Rich Glare revealed that it contains 874 high-grade diamonds of different colors and sizes. At the centre of the glinting white gold and yellow gold, the hardware is an internally flawless heart-shaped pink diamond that weighs 15.37 carats, a 12.79-carat heart-shaped blue diamond and a flawless heart-shaped D-color diamond weighing 11.36 carats. Each of those stones is set in a bracelet that also contains clusters of 260 pear-shaped D-colour flawless diamonds and 91 round D-colour flawless diamonds weighing 10.29 carats total, which are arranged into flower shapes that feature around 8.81-carat yellow diamond in the center. Additionally, 26 pear-shaped yellow diamonds that together weigh 17.07 carats are scattered throughout the bracelet.





When one presses the spring-loaded mechanism in the piece, the three heart-shaped stones open like flower petals exposed to the sun, exposing the pavé-set watch face, which contains three pear-shaped yellow diamonds that total 8.45 carats.





Add in the fact that Chopard has an excellent reputation within the jewelry industry, and you have a timekeeper that's clearly coveted by collectors. The Richest explained that all of the company's watches are constructed in-house. The attention to detail is also incomparable - in fact, the Swiss watchmaker's timepieces do not depend on any of the ebauches or base movements for functionality that others often do.





Chopard stands for creativity and innovation but also history, craftsmanship and a family tradition,"





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

– 1 heart-shaped diamond, natural Fancy Pink, Internally Flawless, 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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Breguet Grande Complication Marie-Antoinette is the most expensive pocket watch in the world priced at $30 million! It was commissioned by an alleged lover of Marie Antoinette, the French queen. It’s making began in 1782 by Abraham-Louis Breguet and was finished in 1827 by his son, 4 years after his death. Marie Antoinette did not get to see the watch since it was completed 34 years after her execution, but we can be sure she would’ve been impressed.





The result, is an amazing piece of design, class, and technology containing every function that was possible at that time and it was encased in gold, displaying the intricate mechanism running it, Breguet used sapphire to lower the friction within the piece.





The watch was the most complex timekeeper in the world. Nearly a dozen complications fit inside, all of them powered by a massive rotor. It displays central jumping hours and minutes, an independent central seconds hand, running seconds at six o'clock, a, full perpetual calendar with the month at eight o’clock, the day at six o’clock, and a date hand at two o'clock, plus equation of time at 10 o'clock, a 48-hour power reserve indicator at 11 o'clock, and a thermometer at one o’clock. Yeah, it's a lot.





The watch was stolen in the late 1900s and retrieved only in 2007. Every since every top watch connoisseur wanted it. As of 2018, the watch is valued at at least $30 Million.





Currently the watch is secured at the L. A. Mayer museum so you can see it live if you’re in the area.

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Graff Diamonds staff are said to have spent thousands of hours making the new ladies watch, which was unveiled at the Baselworld watch and jewelry fair in Switzerland in 2014.







Encrusted with beautiful multicolored and rarest rare diamonds, the Hallucination contains 110 carats worth of diamonds set into a bracelet of platinum, which has been scrupulously inserted over years, one after another, by master craftsmen to create this colorful and impressive masterpiece. With a colorful layering of diamonds, it is the most efficient watch in the world and is certainly one of the most spectacular. If you look really close at the bundle of gems you can see a tiny quartz dial in the middle of it framed by pink diamonds.





In 1967, with stores already open in London, Mr. Graff expanded his business into Asia, opening up a Mr Graff, who started out as a jewelry apprentice , founded the company in 1960.In 1967, with stores already open in London, Mr. Graff expanded his business into Asia, opening up a jewelry concession in Singapore . Six years later, he became the first jeweler to win a Queen's Award to Industry . He went on to win this again in 1977, 1994 and 2006.





The company, which has flagship shops in Knightsbridge and on New Bond Street, opened its first store outside the UK in Monaco in 2000.













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