25 Watches Over $1 Million

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Price: $1 million

Hublot’s One Million $ Black caviar watch was a draw dropper when it came out in 2009, well, it has long since raised the bar, but this wristwatch, covered in 501 baguette-cut black diamonds and 18-carat white gold is a classic, surprisingly understated piece.

Price: $1,022,500

Known for its ridiculously sophisticated watches with exorbitant price tags (as you’ll see later), Patek Philippe has been holding court on quality watches since 1851. Made in 1933, this 18-karat gold watch has 18 jewels and a two-tone day-night 24 hour dial.

Price: $1.1 million

This Swiss-made watch has 60-karats of diamonds cut into perfect cubes.

Price: $1.3 million

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.

Price: $1.4 million

Part of the Tour de I'lle series, Vacheron Constantin’s Rose Gold piece has been called the world’s most complicated wristwatch. With an alligator leather strap, snap-in caseback embellished with Sapphire crystals, and a hand-guilloché motif on the back dial, the watch has 834 individual parts and took over 10,000 hours to design, and no piece is the same.

Price: $1.7 million

If you’re a part of Fiddy’s Money Team, dropping 1.7 mill from your money tree on a transparent wristwatch that looks like a prop from Martin Scorsese’s Hugo probably isn’t a big deal. Limited to five pieces in the world, the Richard Mille RM 56 Felipe Massa Sapphire watch has a tourbillon movement that’s completely covered in sapphire crystal. With 1,000 hours to machine the case, 430 hours to grind and 350 to finish, this timepiece says: "If you’re wondering what’s going on in my head, don’t ask questions. Check the watch."

Price: $1.7 million

This one of a kind 1936 model sold for over 1.7 mil at Christie’s in Geneva. It has unique navigation complications and operates on a 24-hour scale.

Price: $1,773,206

A slick yellow-gold wristwatch that sold in Geneva back in 2006 that has a stop slide and tachometer.

Price: $1,812,7000

Stuffed with 480 baguette-cut diamonds, this self-winding wristwatch has 239 parts with a seven day power reserve. It has a white gold case that’s water resistant.

Price: $1.85 million

Patek Philippe's Sky Moon Tourbillon series has that obviously up-market aesthetic with a platinum case and bazel, scratch-resistant sapphire and a Crocodile leather strap. Just don’t put it near water.

Price: $1,918,387

Patek Philippe kills the market again with this 18-karat yellow gold watch has a chronograph and 60-minute register.

Price: $1,945,040

This gold chronograph watch was one of the first watches made from a lefty.

Price: $2,263,964

What makes this watch special? Scarcity. It's the most expensive stainless steel wristwatch, and is one of two that reportedly exist. This one was made in 1944, but wasn't widely-known about until it went to auction in 1996.

Price: $2,280,000

This Patek Philippe watch has a 18-karat yellow gold and 23 jewels with an estimate of only five in the world.

Price: $2.4 Million

This Swiss-made watch can take up to two years to make. With luxurious features like Mother-of-Pearl counters and a white gold dial, the lotus flower embellishment on the front kind of gives it a feminine flair.

Price: $2,755,000

Made of 18-carat, rhodium-plated white gold with small emerald embellishments, this Cartier watch, covered in 3,010 brilliant-cut diamonds has an additional portrait-cut diamond that weighs 3.53 carats.

Price: $2,899,373

An 18-karat yellow gold world time watch with a North American diagram was sold at the watch auctioneer Antiquorum in 2002.

Price: $3.3 million

Piaget’s Emperador Temple diamonds watch has Lil Wayne written all over it. Essentially two-watches-in-one, one face is concealed by in a case covered in 481 brilliant-cut diamonds, 207 baguette-cut diamonds, and an emerald-cut diamond. While on the second face the Polynesian mother-of-pearl dial has 162 brilliant-cut diamonds, 11 baguette-cut diamonds and a bracelet set with 350 baguette-cut diamonds. The watch was a one-of-a-kind and was gone as soon as it was released.

Price: $3,637,408

One of the last surviving true examples of a single button chronograph in white gold from the world’s most admired watch brands.

Price: $4,026,524

Not much is known about this historic wristwatch, but it was sold in 2002 and considered one the only watches ever made of its time.

Price: $4,599,487

It may look like a lot, but considering the series comes in a set of four tourbillion watches, the price isn’t that bad. Moinet decided to use pieces of meteorites to make each watch. He teamed up with Meteorite hunter Luc Labenne to collect pieces from the moon, a Mars meteorite, and an asteroid.

Price: $4,682,165

A 18k gold precision with two movements sold in 1814 for 5,000 francs. It’s worth a lot more now.

Price: $5 million

Considering this one was made in 1943, it is without a doubt, a vintage piece. With an 18K gold perpetual calendar, 23 jewels, bimetallic compensation balance (which sounds so intricate it must be important), silvered matte dial, and applied gold Arabic numerals to name a few of its fancy details.

Price: $11 million

Long off the market, this solid 18-karat gold watch was specially made for the banker it’s named after in 1933 and took five years to design and build. It was actually quite ahead of its time with a chronological function for each hour, a chart of NYC’s skyline and chiming minute repeater. This piece is hella sexy, not to mention classy to boot.

Price: $25 million

Somewhere beneath all these rocks, there's actually a watch. With three heart-shaped diamonds (a 15-carat pink one, 12-carat blue one and a 11-carat colorless one), they swivel around a flower-motif encrusted bracelet with white gold, yellow gold hardware and a handful of diamonds in between making up the grand total.