Time is money, as we often say. In our busy world treasure every moment, because it all goes by so fast. And it does. Not just for me. For everyone. We need to know the time now more than ever. If we don’t wear watches or pay attention to clocks, how will we know it is time to do things? There are many digital clock in the present, but if I say the word „watch”, I rather think analog watch, with it’s purely mechanical movements and springs instead of digital quartz watch..

It's first purpose is just to tell time. But, for some people a watch is so much more. It could be lovely inheritance which we will never want to sell. We shouldn’t forget of course up to this day, that watch is collectively with luxuries like the most expensive automotives symbolise one’s social and financial status. If somebody is looking at the watch its like flashing your name all over.

In this case let’s see what are the world most expensive watches..

Henry Grave’s Supercomplication by Patek Philippe

It fetches world record price at auction $11,002,500 is the most ever paid for a pocket watch anywhere in the world.

It was created as part of a vain competition between Henry Graves, Jr. and Ohio automobile engineer James Ward Packard. It was a big challenge in 1925 to construct a watch with the most complications in the world. Relishing this challenge, a Patek Philippe craftsman began three years of exhaustive study in mathematics, astronomy and precision mechanics to ensure that Graves’ request would be realized. This watch guaranteed that Graves won the contest. The Supercomplication epitomizes an era when superior craftsmanship and mechanical skill acted to consistently produce excellence.

This extraordinary timepiece is housed in an 18K gold case with white enameled and silvered gold dials. It depicts the night sky, with the magnitude of the stars and the Milky Way as seen from Graves´ home in New York. This watch features 24 complications with more than 900 individual components, including 430 screws, 110 wheels, 120 various movable parts and 70 jewels.

Patek Philippe’s Calibre 89

The auction house Antiquorum sold a white gold Calibre 89 for just over $5 million in 2004.

The Calibre 89 was designed to celebrate the watchmaker's  company 150th anniversary in 1989. It has pretty much all the complexities that we can imagine for a mechanical clock. It has a record 33 of functions. This decent mechanical watch is able to display when the sun rises and sets in Geneva, the month, year, decade, century and moon phase. It has a loud alarm and a quiet alarm. It incorporates the Georgian calendar, a map of the sky as seen from Geneva and the date of the next Easter, which appears each December 31. It contains hundreds of hubs, wheels, gears, pins, tiny screws and springs – for a total of 1,728 parts.

Patek Philippe’s Platinum World Time

This certain gentleman’s wristwatch was the most expensive watch in 2002 by a bid of $4,026,524 in Geneva.

This self-winding watch is very unique and rare because displays each of the 24 time zones and is known for its readability, user friendliness and having separate and switchable night and day tones.

Sky Moon Tourbillon

It became the most expensive modern wristwatch to be sold at auction when it fetched HK$11.75 million ($1.49 million) at Sotheby’s Hong Kong auction in 2008.

The Sky Moon Tourbillon has two fascinating faces - one showing mean solar time and a perpetual date, and the other on the base with a map of the night sky, shows the angular movement of the moon, the moon phases and sidereal time. One of the most complicated, double-faced wristwatch Philippe Patek has ever produced. Only two units made each year. It’s movement consists of 686 parts, some of which are microscopically small.

As an independent family owned company, Patek Philippe enjoys total creative freedom to design, assemble and produce what experts agree to be the finest timepieces in the world.

Vacheron Constantin Tour de l'Ile

At $1.5 million, this is one of the world’s most expensive watch produced in recent years

The Tour de l’Ile is a study in superlatives, very complicated, and yes it is very rare, with its original combination of 16 complications that can be read off on a double-face display. Imagined and developed by Vacheron Constantin’s design-engineers to celebrate its 250th anniversary in 2005. It features an 18-carat silver gold dial with alligator leather band and pink gold buckle. This collectible piece is so complicated that it required over 10,000 hours of research to create, and is only produced in a limited edition of seven. Its name refers to one of the historical sites of the venerable company, located next to the current Maison Vacheron Constantin on the Quai de l’Ile. It touts an original combination of horological complications and astronomical indications forming 16 different points, including a minute repeater, sunset time, perpetual calendar, second time zone, and a tourbillon device.

These precious, timeless elegant watches, proudly handed down from one generation to the next, are the result of latest-generation technology combined with traditional watchmaking know-how. These are all represents more money than a single person can expect to earn in their entire lifetime…