Meta Luxury Time Style :The Most Expensive Watches for the Uber Rich

For time to turn timeless it needs to be wrapped in something that goes beyond being a product. It has to be a labour of love, of skilled workmanship and a heritage that lives on for generations.

A watch reflects more about the choice and character of the wearer and can be one of the most noticeable accessories that adorns us.

The watches listed below would be amongst the most expensive ones made and a few of them would be classified more in terms of jewelry than actual timepieces but all involve extremely skilled workmanship, top quality components and a truly luxurious lineage.

Truly Meta-Luxury Time Style.

Chopard 201-Carat

Price: $25 million

Chopard 201-Carat

Hidden beneath this rainbow of gems and precious stones, is a watch, surrounded by three heart-shaped diamonds each different from the other: a pink 15-carat rock, a blue 12-carat and a colourless 11-carat. Fixed on a diamond-encrusted bracelet made of white and yellow gold, This is the world’s most expensive watch…

Patek Phillipe Henry Graves Supercomplication Pocket Watch

Price: $11 million

Patek Phillipe Henry Graves Supercomplication Pocket Watch

This one-of-a-kind pocket watch was made in 1933 yet looks contemporary enough to have been forged today. Named after the banker it was specially commissioned for, this timepiece is constructed out of solid 18-carat gold. It still looks modern today and its chronological functions and chiming minute repeater are more suited to today’s era than the 1930s. A piece of art ahead of its time.

Louis Moinet Meteoris Watch

Price: $4.6 million

Louis Moinet Meteoris Watch

Louis Moinet collected more than meteorite dust to help make this masterpiece. He collected samples from the Moon and an asteroid as well as a Mars meteorite to put into each of his Meteoris watches. It's not a bad price to wear a piece of the Moon on your wrist and it does come in a set of four.

The Piaget Emperador Temple

Price: $3.3 million

The Piaget Emperador Temple

Essentially two watches-in-one, Piaget’s Emperador Temple is one of the most ‘bling’ timepieces money can buy. Covered in 1,212 diamonds, it’s pyramid style front opens up to reveal a second face, and can be closed over to be simply worn as a bracelet. The case holds 688 brilliant and baguette-cut diamonds while the second face possesses 173 of the world’s most valuable stone. Not to be outdone, the bracelet holds 350 diamonds of its own. A watch for someone who has everything else.

Patek Philippe Model 2523 Heures Universelles

Price: $2.9 million

Patek Philippe Model 2523 Heures Universelles

The watch epitomises modern sophistication. This Patek Philippe watch, though almost 60 years old, is an elegant yet original 18-carat gold piece with a splash of colour in the centre dial. The diagram of North America helped the watch to sell for its near $3 million price tag at an auction in 2002.

Cartier Secret Watch with Phoenix Décor

Price: $2.75 million

Cartier Secret Watch with Phoenix Décor

  

A watch disguised as a glistening bracelet, Cartier’s Phoenix timepiece is made of 18-carat, rhodium-plated white gold. Encompassing over 3,000 brilliant-cut diamonds, a 3.53-carat portrait-cut diamond and emerald embellishments, this watch might be secret but it's not very subtle. In tune with the legend of cartier it belongs more in a royal treasure chest than on a commoner’s wrist.

Franck Muller The Aeternitas Mega 4

Price: $2.4 million

Franck Muller The Aeternitas Mega 4

Hailed as the most intricate wrist watch ever created, the Aeternitas Mega 4 is specially manufactured by Franck Muller and can only be purchase in New York and Geneva. It has the tune of Carillon Westminster which comes in 3 time zones, 999-year calendar and chimes every hour. This special watch can be purchased at a price of about $2.4 million.

Parmigiani Fleurier - Fibonacci Pocket Watch

 Price: $2.4 million

Parmigiani Fleurier - Fibonacci Pocket Watch

Renowned clock manufacturer Parmigiani Fleurier, well known among connoisseurs for their collaboration with Bugatti has created a masterpiece: a timepiece crafted of Palladium.

Named after the nickname of Italy’s most famous mathematician, Leonardo Pisano, the Fibonacci can take up to two years to make and dismisses sparkly diamonds for mother-of-pearl counters – where the majority of its hefty price tag can be attributed to. Alongside a white gold dial and cathedral chimes, this pocket watch is of a more feminine taste than the norm, featuring a lotus flower embellishment on the front.

An elaborately engraved lily was selected by Parmigiani to ornament the face of the chronograph and filigree hand-engraving on the bridge augment the elegance.

Blancpain Tourbillon Diamants

 Price: $1.8 million

Blancpain Tourbillon Diamants

A diamond-heavy piece, the Tourbillon Diamants by Blancpain incorporates 480 diamonds on a white gold case. The watch features a self-winding function and a seven-day power reserve as well as being water-resistant. It is instantly recognizable and an ultra luxurious Blancpain masterpiece.

Richard Mille RM 56 Felipe Massa Sapphire Watch

Price: $1.7 million

Richard Mille RM 56 Felipe Massa Sapphire Watch

One thing all watches above the $1 million price tag have is exclusivity, and they don’t come much more exclusive than the RM 56 Felipe Massa watch. With only five made in the world, the Richard Mille creation is covered with sapphire crystal and a clear face allowing the fortunate owners to view into the timepiece’s mechanisms.

Hublot Big Bang

Price $ 1 million

Hublot Big Bang

Hublot made the million dollar big bang watch out of white gold and rare baguette cut black diamonds. almost 550 diamonds are all over the watch, with a total of 34.5 carats. Hublot took its time making the watch. Over 2000 hours went into it. The movement is a manually wound tourbillon. Functions include the time (tourbillon acts as the seconds indicator), and a power reserve indicator.

It is rare, took a lot of time to make, is for men, and is actually very attractive. It is supposed to inspire envy, awe, and a bit of anger. A Power watch.

Audemars Piguet Royal Oaks Watch

Price: $1.3 million

Audemars Piguet Royal Oaks Watch

With an 18-carat white gold bezel, 104 baguettes on the case and a dial encrusted with 116 diamonds, Audemars Piguet’s diamond Royal Oaks watch is a standard entry into elite wristwatch terrain. More for the overtly luxurious than understated it still ranks as one of the finest pieces ever made.