The gift giving season is just around the corner and soon you are going to be busy with finding the right items to give away to your family and friends. There are few things that can match a timepiece as a great gift. It can convey just how much you care and appreciate a person if you give them a really distinguished watch. There are so many watches that are available today that choosing the perfect one can be tough. They range from affordable digital watches to the pieces of jewellery that are the luxury watches. If you take the time, you are sure to find a watch that can match the personality and the lifestyle of the person to whom you want to give a gift.
If you have the money to spend then luxury watches are the best gifts that you can give. You can get them for yourself too, and have them engraved to really personalize them. If you are careful in the watch that you pick then you can find something that is not going to diminish in value with the passage of time but rather is going to become more valuable as it becomes rarer. This is one reason why there are a lot of people who go out of their way to collect luxury watches. They are secure in the knowledge that it is a great form of investment. They know that they are getting good value for their money.
If you are interested in starting a collection of luxury watches of your own then there are certain brands that you should go after. These are the brands that are well known for their craftsmanship that they put into their products.
Names like Patek Philippe, Vacheron Constantin, Jaeger LeCoultre, Cartier, Hublot, Chopard and Ulysses Nardin are just some of the brands that produce really expensive watches. The names included here might not sound so familiar and that is because they are in the business of making limited pieces of watches that are so expensive to be beyond the reach of ordinary people to buy.
If you want to find out about the most expensive watch in the world then there are several candidates for the title. It actually changes almost every year or rather every time a really rare and expensive watch is auctioned. Let us take a look at some of these watches that cost fortunes:
201 carat Chopard- The number 201 refers to the total amount in carats of the diamonds contained in the watch. This unbelievably expensive watch is priced at $25 million, yes that’s right, $25 million.
Platinum World Time Patek Philippe- Patek Philippe watches start out at $20,000 but the Platinum World Time sells at $4 million. Only one was created of this model and it was sold in 2002.
Supercomplication Patek Philippe- This watch was specially made for the banker Henry Graves Jr. in the 1930s at the time when the depression was starting to be felt. What makes this watch so expensive is the great number of complications that it has. This watch is priced at about $11 million today.
These are just a few of the most expensive watches in the world today. If you’re interested in buying me one, I’ll take the Supercomplication s’il vous plait 