2.Breguet Grande Complication Marie-Antoinette Number 160 – 10 million dollars
This piece is going to raise some question marks because has an enormous price and it is a replica.
But the story behind it makes you forget that it is a replica.
Originally meant for Marie-Antoinette the watch was made 34 years later due to the French Revolution. This was part number one of the interesting stories.
The second part is when her descendants where track down and the Breguet group gave them the pocket watch. But his place wasn’t intended for the family and it ended in a museum in Jerusalem from where it was stolen.
When Swatch bought the Breguet group they wanted their own copy of the watch and told Breguet to reproduce it.
It took him 4 years and was estimated at 10 million dollars.
It is in a museum and not for sale, but for the interested we can say that it is a self-winding watch with a minute repeater, equation of time, bimetallic thermometer, a double parachute anti-shock device and has a unique box made out of Royal Oak Tree of Versailles, the box costing alone 100.000 $.
The most expensive pocket watch!->
