The most expensive watch ever bought...

Quite a piece...pocket change!!



The most expensive watch ever bought


The most expensive watch ever made was the result of a long lasting feud between two American financiers. During a time when most of the United States didn’t have two sticks to rub together the two businessmen, New York financier Henry Graves Jr. and Ohio automobile engineer James Ward Packard, duked it out in a game of “who can have the most ridiculous watch”.

Packard commissioned 13 complicated watches from Patek Philippe between 1900 and 1927 with complications including a perpetual calendar with phases and age of the moon, indication of sunrise and sunset, and a celestial chart depicting the constellations of stars in the sky over Packard’s home in Ohio.
Graves Jr. wasn’t going to roll over that easily, over a similar time period he comissioned complicated watched from the same guy who probably couldn’t believe his luck. To have two businessmen throwing money at you in the hope that you eventually roll over and say “this is as complicated as it gets” is surely a stroll up dream street for watch manufacturers.

The process eventually ended with a watch comissioned by Graves Jr. that boasted 24 complications. It took three years to design and five years to produce. The 24 carrat gold time piece was finished in 1933, had a different horological function for each hour of the day and included a chart of the night sky over Graves’ home in New York.

Triumphant in his victory, Graves died in 1953 leaving the watch to people lucky enough to be written into his will who sold the watch to the Time Museum in Rockford, Illinois. In 1999 the museum closed and their collection of watches was sold off at a Sotheby’s auction. With a pre-sale estimate of $3 million, the Graves watch eventually sold for $11,003,500 to an anonymous collector.

That’s around half a million dollars for every complication in the watch and whoever bought it will be lucky enough to know how bright it is at the home of its original owner.


$11,003,500







original source --->>> http://blog.watchsuperstar.com/index.php/2009/04/21/the-worlds-most-expensive-watches/

DEFINITELY a beautiful watch !!! ..Just a little pricey !
..Some of the other watches from that link are ridiculously NICE
as well !..YOWZA !!!..Thanks !

Well, at least it wasn't made by some micro brand for that price.

porschefan wrote:

Well, at least it wasn't made by some micro brand for that price.

Tim, you too are pickin on my kobold? How were the races, they sounded great in the papers! Next time we will make it work and I'm buying lunch or dinner!

Nope, not at all, Trev. Poking fun at the others. (I'm apparently part of the minority thinking not all micro's should sell for $200. I'm starting it all over again, uh? )

Races were great. Turned into just what everyone thought and hoped it wold be, as a six hour enduro. One of our friends race didn't turn out so well, taken out by another.

Hey, no worries. How'd your event go?

Just long enough to screw Sunday up but I did have my iPhone so I could keep up with the fora! On it now forgot my laptop at work !

What race? Where? When? Who? How?

Man do I wish I lived near a good track instead of drag strip designed for dumb asses doing quarter miles.

PoliMalaka wrote:

What race? Where? When? Who? How?

Man do I wish I lived near a good track instead of drag strip designed for dumb asses doing quarter miles.

ALMS at Laguna Seca... Highlight show this Saturday, CBS, check your local listings.

Poli, look at the "One for Poli" thread in "Noting to do with a watch" section. A real track seems to be coming to Tek-sheesh

PoliMalaka wrote:

What race? Where? When? Who? How?

Man do I wish I lived near a good track instead of drag strip designed for dumb asses doing quarter miles.

. . . I dunno Poli . . . I don't go regularily, and the stockers don't do much for me, but Fuel Cars are freakin' awesome!!!! 8000 horsepower and a human strapped inside pretty damn cool to watch . . .