10 Most Expensive Designer Watches In The World 2022
What is the most expensive wristwatch in the world in 2022? If you are a horologist, you may be familiar with luxury watch brands like Patek Philippe and Graff Diamonds. These are familiar names in the expensive luxury watches field. We have put together a list of the 10 most expensive designer watches in the world in 2022. Most of us will never own a watch from this list and the prices quoted may cause us to fall off our chairs. Hold tight!
10 Most Expensive Designer Watches In The World (2022)
10. Hublot Big Bang Diamond
- $5 Million
If you have $5 million lying around and want an eye-catching wristwatch, then the Hublot Big Bang might be right for you. Even rapper Jay-Z has one. His wife, Beyonce, gifted it to him on his 43rd
birthday in 2012. This is easily the most expensive Hublot wristwatch.
The watch features 1280 three-carat diamonds, all hand-cut by a New York City Jeweler with 40 years of experience.
Included amongst the collection of diamonds are 6 emerald cut diamonds that are approximately 3 carats per diamond. There is also an impressive 100 carats’ worth of baguette diamonds aesthetically placed in this watch. What makes this watch so special is the sheer amount of precision that has gone into making this watch.
09. Patek Philippe Ref. 1527
- $5.7 Million
In 1933, Patek Philippe forged his place in history by making one of the most complex watches by hand for Henry Graves. The watch can appear to be rather ordinary on the outside. However, the watch contains more than twenty different precious stones and is made from 20 carats of rose gold.
The watch’s hefty price tag is determined by two things. The first, it is incredibly rare and was the only one of its kind. The second, Patek went on to use this model as inspiration for several other models
Not much is publicly known about the watch but it is one of the two Ref. 1527 watches made. The first Patek Philippe watch currently resides in the Patek Phillipe Museum in Switzerland. The second Ref. 1527 watch features a chronograph, unlike the first one. It registers time through a 30-minutes register. It has 3 subsidiary dials and a tachymeter scale on the outer rim. It has a 5-minute division on the silver-matte dial with gold Arabic numerals.
08. Patek Philippe Ref. 1518 in Stainless Steel
- $11 Million
The 1518 series by Patek Philippe is a limited edition four-piece series. What makes it so special and unique compared to other expensive watches is its unique casing. The 1518 is different from most other Patek luxury watches, which are made of rose or yellow gold because it’s the only perpetual Patek calendar chronograph made of stainless steel.
This watch was created in 1941 and therefore, it invariably was one of the first chronograph watches to have been made by Patek Philippe. The watch recently was auctioned off for $11.1 million. This is the second of 3 Patek Philippe expensive wristwatches on our list of 10 most expensive designer watches in the world in 2022.
07. Paul Newman Rolex Daytona
- $17.6 Million
This is an extremely rare watch!
Paul Newman’s Rolex Daytona sold for an astounding $17.8 million in 2017 in front of 400 watch enthusiasts at the Phillip’s NY Headquarters. It is not a classic design but has a rather art-deco aesthetic. Paul and his wife opted for the exotic black-and-white dial instead of the regular dial. It is estimated that only one in twenty Daytonas were equipped with the “exotic” dial because they were originally slow to sell. However, after Mr. Newman was seen wearing the watch while racing, the price escalated.
Rolex classifies models like these are “professional” timepieces and the company did not produce too many Daytona models. Paul Newman’s Daytona’s rarity combined with the customization and personalization easily raked up $17.8 million at the auction.
