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Top 10 Most Expensive Watches Ever Sold
Auction records that defined ultra-luxury watch collecting. Hammer prices include buyer's premium.
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1
Patek Philippe Grandmaster Chime 6300A-010
$31,000,000 · 2019 · Only Watch / Christie's Geneva
Steel case. Only example in steel ever made. Sold for charity. 20 complications including double-faced reversible case.
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2
Breguet Marie-Antoinette N°160 (Grande Complication)
$30,000,000 · 2014 · L.A. Mayer Museum (theft recovery), valued
Commissioned 1783, completed 1827. 23 complications. Most famous pocket watch in history.
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3
Patek Philippe Henry Graves Supercomplication
$24,000,000 · 2014 · Sotheby's Geneva
Made 1933 for banker Henry Graves Jr. 24 complications including chart of NYC night sky.
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4
Jacob & Co. Billionaire Ashoka
$18,000,000 · 2023 · Direct retail
260 carats of Ashoka-cut diamonds. Skeletonized tourbillon.
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5
Rolex Daytona 'Paul Newman' 6239 (Paul Newman's own watch)
$17,752,500 · 2017 · Phillips New York
Gifted by Joanne Woodward to Paul Newman in the late 1960s. Inscribed caseback 'DRIVE CAREFULLY ME'.
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6
Patek Philippe Stainless Steel 1518
$11,100,000 · 2016 · Phillips Geneva
Perpetual calendar chronograph in steel. Only 4 examples known to exist.
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Patek Philippe 5004T (Titanium)
$8,280,000 · 2018 · Only Watch / Phillips
Split-seconds chronograph perpetual calendar. Titanium one-off.
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8
Vacheron Constantin Reference 57260
$8,000,000 · 2015 · Direct commission
57 complications. Largest, most complicated mechanical pocket watch ever made (2015 commission).
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9
Patek Philippe 5711/1A-018 Tiffany Blue (auction)
$6,500,000 · 2021 · Phillips New York
170 made for Tiffany 5th Avenue. Retail $52k, secondary $6.5M day-of.
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Patek Philippe 2499 First Series (yellow gold)
$5,600,000 · 2018 · Phillips Geneva
Perpetual calendar chronograph. Reference 2499 'first series' from the early 1950s.