10) $734,000 : Breguet pocket watch 1907BA/12
Built by the centuries-old watchmaker credited with creating a device to foil gravity, Breguet?s pocket piece is an 18-karat yellow-gold case with a hand-engraved movement and a two-way rotating crown.
9) $800,000 : Blancpain 1735, Grande Complication
Between the crocodile leather strap of the Blancpain 1735 lies 740 watch parts and a year in the live of a dedicated watchmaker. The watch has a platinum case and elements displaying a perpetual calendar, lunar phase and a split-second chronograph.
8) $860,000 : Louis Moinet Magistralis
Inside the Louis Moinet Magistralis rests a piece of a 2,000-year-old lunar meteorite. Outside, the 18-karat gold watch has a movement that displays a minute repeater, perpetual calendar and a push-button chronograph
7) $1 million : Hublot Black Caviar Bang
Made from an 18-karat white-gold case packed with 322 diamonds, the Hublot Black Caviar is the most unassuming timepiece on our list. Still, diamonds are packed onto every spare square of space, including 179 crammed onto the bezel and 30 encrusted on the clasp
6) $1.1 million : The Chopard Super Ice Cube
This Chopard has 66 carats worth of diamond-encrusted glory. It?s gaudy, ugly, square-faced and worth more than a million ? just like Ice Cube.
5) $1.3 million : Patek Philippe Sky Moon Tourbillon
Patek Philippe. Get used to that name, you?ll be seeing it again. This rare timepiece has two faces and a reputation as being the watchmaker?s most complicated model. It has a perpetual calendar, retrograde date and lists the lunar phase. A flip of the watch reveals a celestial view detailing the sidereal time and a skychart that traces the stars and phase and orbit of the moon
4) $1.5 million : Vacheron Constantin Tour de liIle
There are 834 parts inside the Vacheron Constain?s Tour de lille, a watch considered ?the most complicated watch ever made? by some. The watch lists two time zones, gives the sunset time, has a perpetual calendar and an astronomical indicator of the night sky
3) $4 million : Patek Philippe's Platinum World Time
A $4 million auction bid made Patek Philippe's Platinum World Time the most expensive watch in 2002. 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
2) $11 million : Patek Phillipe's Supercomplication
Patek Philippe's supercomplicated creation is also super expensive. The famed watchmaker finished the timepiece in 1932, a four year-long commission to create a watch for Henry Graves Jr., who had waged watch-war with James Ward Packard. The yellow-gold watch has two faces and 24 complications and was bought at a Sotheby's auction for a little over $11 million
1) $25 million : 201-carat Chopard
