Top 10 Amazing and Bejwelled Watches
Since we got habituated of using mobile phones, the watches lost their usefulness to keep track of time, rather they’ve now become a piece of jewelry to be worn at special occasions. Nevertheless, they are always a gadget that represents your class. And having a look at them is always a pleasure especially the luxurious ones. So, whether you are in a market to purchase one, or simply want to see what the upper class is wearing these days, we have compiled a list of 10 luxurious watches for men, ladies and also some unique watches which you may never heard of. Have a look at these stunning watches.
The Chopard Super Ice Cube
This wholly diamond encrusted watch looks very ugly (Grapes are sour of course!). It has 66 carats worth of diamond-encrusted glory.
Price
$1.1 million
Big Bang Chronograph
The renowned watchmaker, Hublot, in alliance with a diamond-setting workshop, Bunter SA, designed and developed an elite watch dubbed Big Bang. It 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
Patek Philippe’s Platinum World Time
This was the most expensive watch in 2002 by a bid of $4 million. The self-winding watch displays each of the 24 time zones and is known for its readability, user friendliness and having separate and switchable night and day tones.
Price
$4 million
Tour de l’Ile
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
Chopard
Where is the watch? This is the first thing that came to my mind when I saw it first time. Then I found it to be somewhere in the middle surrounded by 201 carats jewelery. More than 600 yellow diamonds are sprinkled alongside 91 or so colorless diamonds. The watch-bracelet comes with a trio of heart-shaped diamonds: A 15-carat pink diamond, 12-carat blue diamond and an 11-carat white diamond, all of which open with a spring-loaded mechanism. This looks more like a showpiece than a watch.
Price
$25 million
Concord Saratoga Sl
This gorgeous blue and silver watch looks elegant on any woman’s wrist. Made of 18 karat white gold.
Price varies based upon availability.
Hublot Black Caviar Bang
This looks awesomely innovative in design and class. Diamonds are packed onto every spare square of space with 322 diamonds including 179 crammed onto the bezel and 30 encrusted on the clasp.The case is made from an 18-karat white-gold.
Price
$1 million
Grande Complication
This Blancpain wristwatch has a minute repeater, split-seconds chronograph, tourbillon, perpetual calendar, moon phase and an automatic winding mechanism. To complete the watch it takes the maker eight to ten months to piece together all 740 components and only 18 of a limited run of 30 watches have been assembled till now. The sleek wristband also add to the look.
Price
$785,000
Double Tourbillon
Manufactured by Breguet this Double Tourbillion watch looks somewhat like the solar system. It has a 95 per cent pure platinum case while the blued-steel Breguet hands are wound manually and do not contain springs. This really a hand made marvel.
Price
$329,000
Titanic Watches
This watch is made from the hull of the Titanic by a Swiss jeweller Romain Jerome. 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
Do you think that these watches justify their prices? Tell us.
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July 4th, 2009 at 10:13 am
Grate watches but the price is the problem
July 24th, 2009 at 4:51 am
I wonder how heavy those watches are?
And I wonder how many people who own one of those watches have been mugged lately? Seriously, they cost more than my bank account.
March 16th, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Someone owning one of these watches with a net worth
in the billions is like someone with a net worth of a few million buying a candy bar.