The World's Most Expensive Watches

Blancpain, value: 839,000 U.S. dollars

Today, more than a timekeeping watch as simple as a watch with a value of treasures can be handed down as heirlooms. The watch works of art, not the average person can have, to have a glimpse of his true colors have been lucky. U.S. "Forbes" magazine in the world's most expensive watch last year's Ping Chu, the most expensive as high as 12.48 million yuan, the most "accessible" should also be 1.8 million yuan, the following is one of the representative.

In 1991, Blancpain launched the 1735 watch, this watch design, development and manufacturing engineering took 6 years, the world's most complex, most functions of the entire manual mechanical watches. 740 precision watch parts from the composition, mechanical watch collection in the world today all six functions in a complex mechanism, including the ultra-thin self-winding movement, two-pointer returning to time, Tourbillon, always ask three functions, RTC and profit and loss function of moon phase. Teachers need to watch one and a half hours to make a such a watch, now the world's only three watchmakers can make such a complicated watches. While this watch even afford to buy, have to book in advance at least 3 years before they can.

Vacheron, Value: 1.5 million U.S. dollars

Vacheron Constantin Tourdel'lle double astronomical watches, the surface diameter of 47 mm, users can directly enjoy the tourbillon operation, is 250 years Vacheron watch manufacturing technology and design skills of the essence. This may be the world's most complex features excellent watch. A world with only seven products, each individually numbered. The promotion of a black dial, serial number as the 1st. This work is 18K rose gold production, two-surface design with a unique twisted rope pattern dial decorated. Movement spent a total of more than 10,000 hours making, by up to 834 parts.

Parmigiani, Value: 477,000 U.S. dollars

While this Parmigiani Fleurier's Calendar 3 Q Toric Brisk control watch, is the world's first one-touch calibration three questions calendar table calendar watch brand aside of a common inconvenience of adjusting to time stopwatch button device with identical Single-button format, adjust all the calendar features, both functional and easy to use. Reverse jump date, week, month, leap year and moon phase cycle for the first time can be automatically alignment, simply pressing the "revise" button to the desired date, calendar functions in all cells are immediately re-adjustment is correct. All calendar functions can also be necessary in the case through the 4 layout of the edge of the regulator for independent adjustments.

Girard, value: 532,000 U.S. dollars

Girard-Perregaux introduced in 2003 on the 3rd OperaThree Opera watch, is very sophisticated music table, each hour will automatically play the music melody. The heart of this model is a mini-bells, with 20 keys and 150 staff with a tooth of the roller screw assembly, to a small lever drum according to serial conversion position, can be said that the installation of a music box watch space into a small, very fine hand. Another lever with three files, you can select the system music, the need to activate the melody when playing, and set an hour's broadcast.

Surface design, the 6 o'clock position of a small second hand, there are bells power reserve upper right direction, while the upper left corner, there's the choice of melody, respectively, Mozart and Tchaikovsky's melodies.