Watch is one of the most important accessory for man. It has a natural benefit of its own. It has its own beauty, it can speak of the status and personality of its owner.
The components used to assemble a watch needs and expert’s choice and skills (not to mention the machine system used to make it) to create a masterpiece. Do we have the same thoughts?

I have the passion for elegant watch. During my free time, I normally go to the plaza and never missed new arrivals of watches displayed. I’ll check on the price and the design. If I happen to like a particular one, I’ll make sure to have it but after saving money to buy it. Wow!.....that would surely take sometime.
But I think for some, designs and prices or brand aint really that important. Anyway any kind would still give you the same time.
“Any watch tell time alike the time tell person worth also”
I think everybody, no matter what status you have in life owns a watch
While writing this, it makes me wonder and much eager to know what’s inside a watch and how it really works. Well, maybe that’s what I’m gonna do, search on it and tell you when I get back to my next post.

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Let continue post Top 10 watches besides have One of the world's most demanding wristwatches.So Honorable mentions

IWC Grande Complication Ref. IW927016
Price: $230,000 (165,000 EUR)

IWC Grande Complication IW927016IWC Grande Complication Ref. IW927016 consists of total of 659 mechanical parts, 71 of them jewels, twelve patents and 21 functions and displays, including a perpetual calendar for the next 500 years, together with perpetual moon phase display made of polished goldstone representing a star-stubbed night sky. Working inside the case are a chronograph and a highly complex minute repeater activated through an all-or-nothing piece slide.

This wonderful invention chimes out the time in crystal-clear tones, which are activated by the slide on the left-hand side of the case. Two tiny, precision-made hammers are released and chime the time in hours, quarters and minutes on two gongs. The striking mechanism is a technical tour de force. Initially, the chimes were inaudible outside the solid platinum case, so the glass was freely suspended on a platinum membrane to enable it to amplify the vibrations produced by the gongs via the sound transmission pin.

The case, too, finished in solid platinum with a fineness of 95 percent or 18 ct. rose gold, is first-class. Despite the complex design of the case, the Grande Complication is unaffected by superficial water splashes. Production limited to 20 watches per year.


A. Lange & Söhne Datograph Perpetual
A unique timepiece for the moment and for eternity
Price: $152,000 (110,000 EUR)

A unique timepiece for the moment and for eternity
Price: $152,000 (110,000 EUR)
A. Lange & Sohne Datograph PerpetualIn the Datograph Perpetual, Lange combines two classic complications - the chronograph (for short time measurements) and the perpetual calendar - in one landmark watch that is also enriched with many of the manufactory's acclaimed new-era attributes.

This masterpiece by Lange is the first wristwatch that incorporates a chronograph and a perpetual calendar. It no doubt represents the most classic combination of complications, capturing the moment, the present, and eternity. Additionally, it is endowed with all of the features that make Lange timepieces so distinctive. It owes its harmonious personality to the subtly offset symmetry of the solid-silver dial.

The Datograph Perpetual can stop times of up to 30 minutes with an accuracy of one-fifth of a second.

The movement is the automatic Caliber L952.1. The platinum case measures 41mm. When fully wound, the spring barrel of the Datograph Perpetual has a power reserve of 36 hours. The accuracy of the watch originates from a glucydur balance with eccentric poising weights, a Lange balance spring, and with a frequency of 18,000 semi-oscillations per hour. The watch consists of 556 individaul parts that must be assembled and adjusted to interact flawlessly in a time-consuming process.

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Woww!!! Top 10 the most expensive watches in the world 2009

You are the one cannot decline. The one accessory that is popular with people long time ago.
It’s purposes is just to tell time. But for some people a watch is much more.
Some watches have high Technology combine. It symbolizes one's social and financial status.
It’s be assets. And some watches are expensive then car or even a house.
Yes the watches can be very expensive, so read on to know more about the most expensive
Watches of 2009 We will series start at


10. Girard-Perregaux Opera Three
Ultra-miniaturized music box
Price: $316,000 (226,000 EUR)

Girard-Perregaux Opera ThreeGirard-Perregaux is one of the few authentic Swiss watch manufactures. For over two centuries now, Girard-Perregaux has been renown for its many remarkable creations, among them the emblematic Tourbillon with Three Gold Bridges. From the research and development stage right through to the final adjustments made by master watchmakers, Girard-Perregaux continues to enrich its heritage through its Haute Horlogerie collection.
Opera Three model was launched way back in 2003 and it is a device that actually incorporates an ultra-miniaturized music box.

This Girard-Perregaux Haute Horlogerie Opera Three watch in platinum features a 43 mm case with an elegant silver dial shown here on a black alligator strap. The Girard-Perregaux Haute Horlogerie Opera Three also features a mechanical manual wound movement with an hourstriker complication and the ability to play two separate melodies, a power reserve indicator and sub seconds.

It's important to mention that the device works at a frequency of 28.800 vibrations per hour (4 Hz), and provides a power reserve of minimum 50 hours.

The Opera Three watch is able to sound the passing hours with a melody. The movement’s miniature carillon is composed of a keyboard with 20 blades and a drum whose surface has around 150 hand-mounted pins. A selector allows a choice between two different tunes. A lever can disconnect the sound or allow it to play upon demand.

The music played can be personalized to taste. The Opera Three watch from Girard-Perregaux is yet another one of those ultra-expensive timepieces that almost break the half-a-million barrier.

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9. Parmigiani Fleurier Toric Westminster
The watch with a musical movement
Price: $334,000 (239,000 EUR)

Parmigiani Fleurier Toric WestminsterLess known Swiss watch manufacturer Parmigiani Fleurier has created a fairly large number of high-end, hand-made timepieces over the years. One of the extraordinary models Parmigiani has launched recently is the Toric Westminster model, designed to reproduce on a much smaller scale the movement and chime of the famous Westminster Abbey clock.
Parmigiani Fleurier Toric Westminster watch is equipped with a minute repeater that strikes the hours, quarters and minutes on four gongs to the tune of the Westminster chimes.

Furthermore, Toric Westminster features the GMT function with rapid correction by push-button indicates a 24-hour second time zone and the prestigious tourbillon that smoothes out position errors of the escapement.

It's also quite interesting to note the fact that the design of the bridges and the finishing carried out conveys the beauty of the movement. Although the design and functions are the first to draw the customer's attention, the interior of the Toric Westminster is equally important.

Toric Westminster mechanism, codenamed PF255.01, features no less than 42 jewels, has a diameter of 27 mm, works at a frequency of 21.600 vibrations per hour and offers users an overall power reserve of min 75 hours.

8. Ulysse Nardin Genghis Khan
World's first wristwatch featuring a Westminster chime
Price: $490,000 (351,000 EUR)

Ulysse Nardin Genghis KhanIn 2002 Ulysse Nardin proudly presented a watch beyond all considerations of practicability, a piece of art more than a mere timepiece; the Genghis Khan, world's first wristwatch featuring a Westminster chime with minute repeater, automatons and tourbillon.

A dial made of massive onyx features four figures, meticulously chased from gold. The figures show Mongolian warriors, thus explaining the watch's strange name, which remembers the founder of the largest empire in humankind's history, Genghis Khan (born 1155, or 1162, or 1167; died 1227). Each time the Westminster chimes or the repeater is engaged, the figures are fighting with their characteristically curved swords or trying to catch a small ring with a spear, while riding a impressively crafted horse.

The visible one minute Tourbillon is integrated into the aventurine dial. Opaque or translucent, containing crystals that were engendered by fire in molten glass, aventurine scintillates, subtyl flecked with all possible shades of red, yellow and grey. Forged by human hands, often compared to the philoshopher's stone, aventurine contains the secrets of the master jeweler's aclhemy.

All this is encased in 18k gold of 42 mm diameter, and in spite of its repeater activation slider it is watertight down to 30 meters.


7. Audemars Piguet Grande Complication
Audemars Piguet most expensive timepiece
Price: $526,000 (395,000 EUR)

Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Grande ComplicationAudemars Piguet is another manufacturer of expensive Swiss watches. Tradition, excellence, daring: it is based on these three fundamental values that Manufacture Audemars Piguet perpetuates the art of Haute Horlogerie. At each stage of its history, it has proved capable of adopting the latest avant-garde technologies and of placing them in the service of hand craftsmanship, thereby creating exceptional timepieces.

Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Grande Complication is a selfwinding watch that features perpetual calendar indicationg the day, the week, the moon phases, the month and the leap years.

It also features minute repeater, split-seconds chronograph and small seconds at 9 o'clock. 18-carat white gold case and bracelet, transparent sapphire caseback. Water-resistant to 20 metres. Limited production.

Reference No: 25865BC.0.1105BC.01


6. Breguet pocket watch 1907BA/12
The most expensive pocket watch
Price: $734,000 (540,000 EUR)

Breguet 1907BA/12Breguet is one of the oldest and most respected names in the watchmaking industry, the company being around for more than 225 years and being credited for the invention of one of the most famous watch complication, the tourbillon.

Although it's now a part of the Swatch group of companies, the Swiss watchmaker keeps coming up with all sorts of extremely special timepieces, some of them instantly becoming a collector's item, due both to their high (sometimes enormous) price tags, as well as their one-of-a-kind features.

Breguet Classique "Grande Complication" pocket-watch in 18-carat yellow gold features grand strike and tourbillon, hand-engraved and hand-wound movement with 2-way rotating crown, off-centred chapter ring, centre minute hand, silvered gold dial, hand-engraved on a rose-engine and sapphire caseback.

Breguet's Grand Complications pay tribute to the two-century-old equivalence between Breguet watchmaking and advanced mechanical science. Building a grand complication confronts watchmakers with a maze of technical difficulties that challenge not only their skills but also their powers of invention. Thinking and working in four dimensions, generations of Breguet watchmakers have demonstrated the summit of their art in repeaters, perpetual calendars and tourbillon watches. Breguet protects its latest developments in perpetual calendars with two patents.


5. Blancpain 1735, Grande Complication
Six masterpieces merged in a single construction
Price: $800,000 (582,000 EUR)

Blancpain Grande Complication 1735Blancpain's expert watchmakers devised a daunting challenge: merging their six earlier masterpieces into a single construction. For no other reason than the secret pleasure of outdoing themselves. Despite countless doubts and dead ends, talent and preservance ultimately got them there. After six years, against all odds, fulfillment was at finally hand. In homage to the year of foundation of the House of Blancpain, they called the new watch 1735. Almost magical in its intricacy, its movement's original design comprises an impressive 740 parts and components.

A truly inspired achievement, the Blancpain 1735's horological wizardry provides a rare and altogether convincing demonstration that, at least for the best watchmakers, impossibility is only relative.

The 1735 is the fruit of a year of loving labor by a single watchmaker. With its 740 individual hand-finished components, the 1735 remains the world's most complicated automatic winding wristwatch produced in a series. The platinum case measures 42 mm, the strap is croco leather. Movement is the automatic Caliber 1735, with 950 platinum rotor and a power reserve of 80 hours.


4. Louis Moinet Magistralis
One of a kind watch with real pieces of the Moon
Price: $868,000 (631,000 EUR)

Louis Moinet MagistralisSwiss watchmaker Louis Moinet has recently presented a watch with real pieces of the Moon! These pieces are from a lunar meteorite that was ejected from the Moon 2,000 years ago. The meteorite has been authenticated by the University of California. Moonstone is an extremely rare material that is even more expensive than gold and platinum combined.

The movement of Magistralis was created a hundred years ago. Designed in the Vallee de Joux, it was made in Geneva and bears the Poinçon de Geneve quality hallmark. It beats at 18,000 vibrations per hour and features a (double-bladed) self-compensating balance and a flame-blued Breguet balance spring.

The case is made of 5N and 3N 18-carat rose gold. Its brand-signature design stands out especially for its crown guard (patent pending) and its chronograph button guard at 12 o’clock. The perpetual calendar function displays the day, date and month over four years.

Magistralis is an extraordinary watch representing the expert craftsmanship of the time-honoured art of Haute Horlogerie. It is one of a kind, unlike any other, and will never be repeated.

3. Hublot One Million $ Black Caviar Bang
The quintessence of "invisible visibility" in a uniform range of
black tones
Price: $1 million (727,000 EUR)

Hublot One Million $ Black Caviar BangSwiss manufacturer of luxury watches Hublot has recently introduced one million dollar watch Black Caviar Bang. This watch's setting is very complex. The difficulty resides in the unusual lines of the Big Bang case – round but with sharp angles. The white gold, one-piece construction of the case does not reveal one grain of gold, and the diamonds, cut in mysterious ways, seem to hold together as if by magic. The only visible feature is the black and deep tones of the diamonds, shining in their harmonious alignment.

This unique piece, which houses a Tourbillon, symbolises the fusion between watchmaking and jewellery, tradition and technology, glittering and invisibility. The vibration which emanates from it gives rise to an emotion tinged with fascination.

Creating this exceptional watch demanded over 2000 hours of meticulous work, from design to final adjustment, without forgetting the research and development, programming of the machines, choice of tools, diamond cutting, optical checking of each part, and setting and casing.

The case, in 18kt white gold, is covered with 322 black diamonds (25 carats). The crystal is an AR-coated sapphire, as is the display back. The bezel, done in 18kt white gold, is covered with 179 black diamonds (6 carats). Movement is the Hublot caliber HUB Solo T, a 1 minute Tourbillon Volant, manual-wind with special black finishing. The watch has 24 jewels, beats at 21,600 bph and has a power reserve of 120 hours. The bracelet is rubber with an 18kt white gold closure covered with 30 black diamonds (3.5 carats). The watch is manufactured in limited edition of just one piece.


2. Vacheron Constantin Tour de l'Ile
World's most complex watch ever made
Price: $1.4 million (994,000 EUR)

Vacheron Constantin Tour de l'IleOf all the wristwatches imagined and produced by Vacheron Constantin to celebrate its 250th anniversary, the Tour de l'Ile is a study in superlatives. Calling this a "Grande Complication" model is a dramatic understatement: it is, in fact, the world’s most complex watch ever made, with its original combination of 16 complications that can be read off on a double-face display. Its design-engineers have developed a calibre smoothly integrating a series of grand horological complications and astronomical indications in order to make it a genuine wristwatch that is perfectly suited to and comfortable on the wrist.

It took the Vacheron Constantin design-engineers and the watchmakers over 10,000 hours of research and development to create this sheer masterpiece of horological technique, named in reference to one of the historical sites of the venerable firm, located next to the current Maison Vacheron Constantin on the Quai de l’Ile. An additional statistic provides an instant glimpse of the density of this exceptional calibre: no less than 834 parts are housed within a case measuring 47 mm in diameter.
The gold case with its hand-soldered lugs, which maintains beautiful and harmonious proportions despite its substantial content, is now distinguished by a symmetrical double protuberance on either side of the bezel. This miniature horological marvel, which will go down in the history of the wristwatch and of watchmaking in general, is produced in a strictly limited edition of just 7.

1.Patek Philippe Sky Moon Tourbillon Ref. 5002 P
Patek Philippe Sky Moon Tourbillon Ref. 5002 PA (platinum Patek)
Price : $1.49 Million (1.06 Million ERU)

Patek Philippe Sky Moon Tourbillon Ref. 5002 PA platinum Patek
Philippe tourbillon watch became the most expensive modern wristwatch to be sold at auction when it fetched HK$11.75 million ($1.49 million) in Hong Kong on April 10, 2008.

The "Ref. 5002 P Sky Moon Tourbillon" wristwatch with a double dial is considered the most complicated wristwatch ever produced by the renowned Swiss watchmaker. Only two such watches are made every year, one in platinum and one in rose gold. The watch, made in 2003, was bought by an Asian private buyer at the Sotheby's auction.

The previous auction record for a modern wristwatch was a Vacheron Constantin Tour de l'Ile, ranked 2nd on this list, which was sold by the auction house Antiquorum for $1.4 million in Geneva in 2005.

The Sky Moon Tourbillon Ref. 5002 is the most complicated wristwatch ever produced by Patek Philippe and also the workshop's first double-face wristwatch. Its movement consists of 686 parts, some of which are microscopically small. This rare and exceptional timepiece features mechanical movement that must be manually wound, a minute repeater with tourbillon escapement, chime with two "cathedral" gongs activated by a slide piece in the case, perpetual calendar with retrograde date hand, hours and minutes of mean solar time, day, month, leap year by hands and moon age. The platinum case measures 42.8 mm.

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1485 : Leonardo da Vinci sketches a fusee for a clock
1500 : Germany : Peter Henlein creates the first pocket watch.
Early 1600s : Form watches becoming popular. Cases are shaped like animals and objects. Religious themes are popular.
1635 : Around this time that the fusee was adapted from clocks to watches.
1659 -1675 : Christian Huygens invents the "Remontoire".
1687 : Daniel Quare patents the repeating mechanism that uses bells to sound quarter hours and the hours.
1704 : Peter and Jacob Debaufre, Nicolas Facio, are the first to use rubies in watch movements.
1735: Blancpain started making watches and produces fewer than 10,000 a year
1750 : Watch makers began using enamel on watch dials.
1759 : Thomas Mudge invents the English lever escapement.
1775 : Abraham Louis Breguet sets up his own watch making shop in Paris, France.
1780 : Abraham Louis Perrelet invents the self winding movement.
1786 : Breguet is the first to use guilloche on watch dials.
1791 : J.F. Bautte founded the watch company that would eventually become Girard-Perregaux.
1807 : Thomas Young invents the recording chronograph.
1809 : Luther Goddard of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts is the first watch manufacturer in America.
1820 : Thomas Prest registers a patent for the self winding watch.
1832: Longines founded
1830: Baume & Mercier was started in by two brothers with one mantra
1833 : Antoine LeCoultre starts his own watchmaking business which later become Jaeger-LeCoultre.
1837 : The French fashion house of Hermes was established by Thierry Hermes
1839: Antoine Norbert de Patek (Salesman) and François Czapek (Watchmaker) joined forces to found « Patek,

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1843: Adrien Philippe develops a watch with winding and setting through the crown.
1844 : The start, stop, and reset chronograph is invented by Adolphe Nicole.
1844 : Antoine LeCoultre invents the millionometre.
1847 : Cartier was founded in Paris by Louis-François
1848 : Louis Brandt opens his own workshop in La Chaux-de-Fonds which eventually became the Omega Watch Company
1851 : Mr. Philippe became officially associated the company was rebaptised « Patek Philippe & Cie
1853 : Tissot makes the first dual time zone watch.
1858 : Minerva was founded.
1860 : Chopard Watches was founded
Officine Panerai was founded in Florence, Italy
Heuer was founded.
1865 : Zenith founded by a young Georges Favre-Jacot
1868 : IWC Founded by Florentine Jones, a 27-year old American master watchmaker from Boston
1875 : Audemars Piguet was originally established by two young men; Mr. Audemars designed the movements for the luxury timepieces and Mr. Piguet was in charge of the financial and commercial aspect
1881 : Movado was founded.
1884 : Greenwich, England is officially named the zero meridian and used as the world wide recognized basis of time zones.
1884: The story of Breitling watches began in when Leon Breitling opened a watchmaking workshop in the Jura Mountains of Switzerland
1886 : Geneva Seal established.
1892: The Hamilton Watch Company was founded in Lancaster Company was founded in Lancaster
1894 : Universal Geneve established.
1904 : The Oris watch company was founded and has become well-known for only producing mechanical watches
1905 : Hans Wilsdorf starts the Rolex Watch Company.
1906: Guccio Gucci, son of an Italian trader founded the House of Gucci in Florence
1908 : Concord was founded in Switzerland
1911 : Ebel was founded in Switzerland by life and business partners, Eugene Blum and Alice Levy. Ebel, an acronym of their initials, stands for “Architects of Time”.
1914 : Eterna introduces the first wristwatch with an alarm.
1918: Japan : Shakosha Watch Company opened. This would become Citizen in1931.
1921: From its inception by Guccio Gucci, the name Gucci has become internationally equated with absolute luxury.
1923 : John Harwood is the first to mass produce a self winding wristwatch.
1924 : Tokyo : Seiko brand name is launched by Kinttaro Hattori.
1926 : Rolex introduces the first waterproof case called the "Oyster".
1929 : First anti magnetic watch created by Tissot.
1931 : Shakosha became Citizen.
1933 : Ingersoll introduces the "Mickey Mouse" watch.
1956 : Rolex introduces their first model that displays the day and date.
1957 : Hamilton introduces the world's first battery driven watch.
1962 : Rado produces the world's first scratch proof watch called the "Diastar 1".
1962 : ETA of Switzerland develops the first quartz battery operated watch.
1970 : Hamilton releases the "Pulsar", the first electronic digital watch.
1972 : Longines and Seiko introduce the LCD, (Liquid Crystal Display).
1976 : Founded by Raymond Weil, his watches are based on the ideal of combining classic styling
1980 : Hublot It was established by Carlo Crocco.
1983 : SMH of Switzerland launches the Swatch brand.
Philippe Charriol, the founder of the company that bears his name, was President of Cartier before launching his own line of watches
1985 : Swiss Heuer Company merges with TAG to form TAG Heuer.
1986 : Audemars Piguet introduces the first self winding tourbillon.
1991 : Franck Muller founded.
1999 : Casio innovates with the first wristwatch with a built-in Global Positioning System (GPS).

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Time
The world revolve around us and so is time. People learn from sunlight,
water and other natural phenomenon. They create tools to tell time. We call it the clock. Its origin occurred on the planet over 3500-years ago. They say that time is based on the sun. And this is when man invented the sundial. But then dial modifications were brought about to calculate the time among the ancient Greek inhabitants where precision is more accurate. The Greeks invented a water clock called “Clepsydra” (literally means water thief). It was a device for drawing liquids from vats too large to pour which utilized the principles of air pressure to transport the liquid from one container to another. But there were some restrictions to this, since in winter the water will freeze and will never be available. So water watch died a natural death long before it became popular.

In 1929 Warren Morrison had invented a clock that is more specific. Quartz watch was a very accurate clock. Since the clock has developed steadily from the relentless wind forces. This was in 1980, a period in which people started to use computer technology. Invention using a clock chip was an additional component in the mechanism of this clock. In addition to telling time it can also store information needed. And can be used by the electronic calculator. Until now, clock continues to evolve in the digital age coupled with computer technology.

Time is most valuable to man. All men are born with equal inheritance each day.
We were all given 24 hours a day. It is up to us to grab and utilize it overtime.

Be punctual with your values because when it’s over, there’s no way you can get it back. Only memories remain.

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