Ten Most Expensive Watches in the World

1. Zadora Timepieces Manufacturer: Andreas von Zadora-Gerlof
The latest offering by Andreas von Zadora-Gerlof is a bee of oxidized palladium and micro pave. The bee is adorned with black and canary yellow diamonds, pear-shaped emerald eyes with a baroque south sea pearl in its mouth.Price: $150,000Image: A Zadora Timepiece

2. Titanic Watches Manufacturer: Romain Jerome
A Swiss jeweller is now offering watches made from the hull of the Titanic.The metal has been mixed with shipbuilding steel to make the casing. The black dials have been made by mixing the recovered coal burned in the Titanic's furnaces with ceramics.Price: $152,435

3. Double Tourbillon Manfacturer: Breguet
The Breguet Double Tourbillion comes hand-engraved with an image of the solar system.This double-tourbillon watch has a 95 per cent pure platinum case while the blued-steel Breguet hands are wound manually and do not contain springs.Price: $329,000

4. Opera One Manufacturer: Girard-Perregaux
This beautiful platinum timepiece includes an alligator band and features a Westminster minute repeater and tourbillon with three gold bridges, manual winding, 75-hour power reserve and a see-through backing. The watch has a power reserve indicator, a subsecond complication, a minute repeater and a truly elegant face.What differentiates Girard-Perregaux's Opera Three from other luxury watches is its ability to sound passing hours not with a beep but with actual tunes.Price: $495,000

5. Grande Complication Manufacturer: Blancpain
This wristwatch has a minute repeater, split-seconds chronograph, tourbillon, perpetual calendar, moon phase and an automatic winding mechanism. The sleek crocodile wristband further adds to the look. It takes the maker eight to 10 months to piece together all 740 components and only 18 of a limited run of 30 watches have been assembled till now.Price: $785,000

6. Tecnica Skeleton Chronograph Manufacturer: Parmigiani Fleurier
This watch hit the market early in 2008. Each unit of the watch includes a platinum case and other interesting features like a minute repeater, tourbillon and chronograph, as well as a cathedral chime.Price: $850,000

7. Classical Billionaire Tourbillion Manufacturer: Corum
The shimmering wristwatch is adorned with 850 diamonds and boasts a dazzling skeleton dial with skeleton hour and minute hands. The watch is manually wound with 90-hour power reserve and features Caliber CO-372 by Corum and La Joux-Perret. Rightly named so, the Billionaire Tourbillion comes in many versions with price ranging from $325,000 to $998,000. Only 10 pieces are in production.Price: $998,000

8. Big Bang Chronograph Manufacturer: Hublot, Bunter SA
The renowned watchmaker, Hublot, in alliance with a diamond-setting workshop, Bunter SA, designed and developed an elite watch dubbed Big Bang.The $1-million Big Bang boasts a fully invisible setting that makes the material disappear. Only things that can be seen are the diamonds.The credit goes to the craftsmen who accomplished the tedious job of making this exclusive watch, which was not feasible a few years ago.Price: $1 milllion

9. Tour de l'Ile Manufacturer: Vacheron Constantin
Vacheron Costantin's Tour de l'Ile was designed in 2005. The collectible piece is also the most complicated double-face watch, and only produced in a limited edition of seven.This 834-part watch took over 10,000 man-hours to be made and features an 18-carat silver gold dial with a hand-sewn alligator leather band and pink gold buckle.It touts an original combination of horological complications and astronomical indications forming 16 different points, including a minute repeater, sunset time, perpetual calendar, second time zone, and a tourbillon device.Price: $1.5 million

10. Joaillerie 101 Manchette Manufacturer: Jaeger-LeCoultre
In this watch,a unsystematic series of polished or gem-set links (a jewellery puzzle) hides the exalted Calibre 101.It'ss wonderful to look for the time through the gold, diamonds and onyx cabochons.The wristwatch is festooned with 576 diamonds and comes in 18-carat white gold. The versions with Onyx have 400 diamonds and 11 onyx cabochons.Price: Unknown at the moment

Portugal firework—IWC Portugal Automatic Movement Diamond Wrist Watch

The word“diamond” may remind you of Marilyn Monroe’s lyric“Diamond is the best girlfriend for ladies”.Indeed,from acient times to the present, ladies are attracted by diamond.However,it’s not ladies’ privilege to own the diamond.

Open-minded men all are curious to knoww about the mystery of the gem stone and how the master craftsmen cut the diamonds skillfully and release their dazzling bright. IWC is thought to be men’s wrist watch,which is not only a wristlet,but also men’s In order to achieve the above mentioned requirement, it adopts the Portugal Automatic Movement with a diameter of 41mm and embeded with perfect diamond,being Schaffhausen’s most sophisticated automatic wrist watch.

With a long history,this wrist watch has delicate and fashionable profile.Though not so small,it becomes more and more prevalent among ladies.Schaffhausen made stars-pervading wrist watch,which has platinum or rose gold case,both have three patterns of embeded diamonds.

The first style is embedding diamonds on the inner circle;the second one has diamonds both on the inner circle and the joints between strap and case;the third one has embeded diamonds not only on the inner circle and the joints,but also the bezel and the crown has diamonds embeded.

The platinum wrist watch with rock-grey dial and stunning diamonds present a perfect low-key feeling to us,while the one with rose gold case and black dial,sending forth a twinkling bright with the studded diamond.Both of them have crocodile strap and precious metallic buckle.Setting with automatic movement,it has choronograph function and 30-minute small dial.

The blue sapphire crystal scratch durable glass face,which shines like twinkling Portugal firework,is exactly harder than the diamond.

Detailed information about this Portugal Automatic Movement wrist watch is as following:

Characters: Automatic movement with stopwatch function

Three patterns of studded diamonds are available.

Movement:

Serial number:79350

Frequency:28800 times and 4HZ per hour

Daimonds:31 pieces

Power reservation:44 hours

Winding:automatic winding

Case:Material:18K platinum and 18K rose gold

Glass face:sapphire crystal anti-reflictive glass face

Water resistant:30 meters

Diameter:40.9mm

Thickness:12.3mm

Weight:

Platinum case,diamond on inner circle weighs 109 grams

Platinum case,diamond on inner circle and joints weighs 106grams

Platinum case,diamond on inner circle,joints and crown weighs 105grams

Rose gold case,diamond on inner circle weighs 106grams

Rose gold case,diamond on inner circle and joints weighs 103grams

Rose gold case,diamond on inner circle,joints and crown weighs 103grams

Moonphase—contracted aristocratic symbol

The mysterious moon just changes its shape as time going.The literators endowed it with more charms by beautiful legends.Fortunately,we have the chance to wear such romantic wish on our wrists.The moonphase will change as time went by,from what we can learn something about secret of the moon,not only adding a flair to the elegant watch.We can unconsciously experience ingenious changes of the nature.Moreover,it’s another kind of fun when reading the time.

The basicest cellinium watch is comprised of hour hand,minute hand and second hand.This simple wrist watch will be more charming and attractive by attaching a pure and elegant moonphase dial beneath the small second hand.It will demonstrate classic,modern,traditional or exquisite look by adding different moonphases.

The knowingness of the Frank Muller Take Your Time wrist watch series lies in its irregular time rhythm.Moreover,it takes on a unque idea by positioning a moonphase upon the six o’clock position,which perfectly combines fun with time.

The GIRARD-PERREGAUX Vintage 1945 series are famous for its classic and contracted design,which has a moonphase and big date window,exerting its noble and elegant characters of the brand thoroughly. The first thing comes into our mind when talking about .JEANRICHARD TV Screen Retrograde Moon Phase,is its unique case,which was made by prominent conventional craftsmanship.With the vivid moonphase and shining look acting as foils,the watch becomes an artsy and intelligent chronograph essence.

1. The GIRARD-PERREGAUX Vintage 1945 series wrist watch adopts GP Cal.3330 automatic movement with rose gold case,moonphase on the six o’clock position and big calendar. Both the hour hand and minute hand are pink,while second hand on the moonphase is blue.It’s water resistant deep to 30 meters.

2. JR.10PL automatic movement it adopts,this JEANRICHARD TV Screen Retrograde Moon Phase wrist watch has steel case,white dial and silver numeral markers.The 48-hour-power-reservation dial is fixed on the six o’clock postion,while the moonphase is one the 12 o’clock position.With anti-clockwise second hand,it’s also water resistant deep to 30 meters.

3. With irregular hour/minute/second instructions,this FRANK MULLER Take Your Time wrist watch has automatic movement and 42-hour-power-reservation.Besides,the moonphase is set on the six o’clock position.It has rose gold case and black genuine leather strap.