Your heartbeat will stop to hear that a watch cost at $25 million. It may also sound bizarre. But it is true. You may also say that why you will pay million dollars for a watch when you can get time by your couple of dollar cell phone. Actually it was a diamond watch. This twenty-five million dollars watch made by three heart-shaped diamonds—a 15-carat pink diamond, a 12-carat blue diamond and an 11-carat white diamond. For good measure, they threw in 163 carats of white and yellow diamonds to bring the total to 201 carats of diamonds.
Expensive watch story has not finished yet. A New York based banker bought a watch at $11 million in 1932. What a great fun! It was a gold pocket watch made by Patek Philippe. Actually baker might paid for gold not watch. Meanwhile it was the most complicated watch in the world for fifty years.
Patek Philippe is well known for its expensive watch. It’s another expensive watch was Platinum World Time created and was sold at auction for over $4 million USD in 2002. 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.
A watch required 10000 hours to produce! Yes It’s true Swiss watchmaker Vacheron Constantin marked its 250th anniversary in 2005 with the world’s most complicated wrist watch—the Tour de l’Ile. It was $1.5 million watch only produced seven pieces!