2. Breguet Grande Complication Marie-Antoinette – $30,000,000
As a matter of fact, Breguet was a famous watchmaker back in the day in Europe, and one of his most prized patrons was Marie Antoinette. It’s no wonder that there is now a watch named for the leading lady herself. Marie’s favorite type of timepiece was a perpetuelle that had a self-winding feature. The Breguet Grande Complication Marie-Antoinette is a modern-day attempt at giving the Queen what she asked for. Nearly an exact replication, this $30,000,000 watch took hours upon hours of poring over books, reading centuries-old documents, and doing as much research as possible to get the pieces and design just right. The perpetuelle has a minute repeater, calendar, civil and solar time, and 823 parts and components. This multi-million dollar watch has the exquisite materials that would make Marie Antoinette swoon: plates and bars of rose gold, as well as polished steel and pristine sapphire.
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