World’s Top Three Luxury Timepieces
Friday, June 24th, 2011Joaillerie 101 Manchette
How much is the watch? The answer is priceless. You cannot measure it with money. I suppose at the first sight, you are definitely not shocked by its appearance and it looks more like a bracelet, right? However, it is a watch making up of a series of polishing and refining squared diamonds. The movement adopts the mechanical wound Jaeger-LeCoultre Calibre 10. There is a sapphire crystal, a silver-colored dial, and a winding crown on the back of the case. The wristwatch is decorated with 576 diamonds and 11 onyx cabochons which is fabulous to check out the time while appreciate those precious creatures.
201-Carat Chopard watch
Yes, you got it. Here is a costly timepiece which could measure with money in the whole world at present, but it is also a extremely expensive one. This is the one that launched by Chopard, a Swiss luxury jewelry, timepieces and accessories company devoting itself on pocket watches and chronometers sticking to innovative ideas. It costs all together 25 million dollars for its blinding diamonds. The case is surrounded by 201 carats diamonds in diverse colors, such as pink, yellow, white and blue to reflect a polychrome phenomenon. There are heart-shaped, pear-shaped and round diamonds composing the basic structure of this watch. The case is surrounded by a 12-carat blue diamond, a 15-carat pink diamond and an 11-carat white one in shape of heat and clusters of more than 600 yellow diamonds sprinkling from the center to outside, all of which is support by a spring-loaded mechanism. The watch weights 201 carat in all and the case is a little bit small encircled by these 201 carat diamonds, so Chopard names it with its weight.
Patek Phillipe’s Supercomplication
It is launched by Petek Phillipe, a Swiss luxury watch manufactory, costing 11 million dollars. It is reported that this brand has been kept the highest record in auctions in the world. This one is an 18 carat gold pocket timepiece with two faces and ultra-complicated functions producing in 1932. I think it is amazing creature in that age because craftsmen did every detail manually to accomplish such a functional watch possessing a sum of thirty-three different functions. It was originally designed for Henry Jr., a New York banker, which set a record for its price selling in an auction in 1999 as a pocket one.



