It is said that men's pursuit of watches is just like women's love of bags. A man's temperament does not entirely come from his looks, height, education, money, such as tie, watch, belt, these three are enough to see a man, and the watch in these three pieces, is the most intuitive embodiment of a man's temperament and taste. So what are the most luxurious watch brands? What do you know about the 18 most expensive watches in the world?
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If Rolex is the brand everyone wants, Patek Philippe is the brand they want. In 175 years, it has gone through World War, recession and near collapse (this is the current owner, how stern bought the business) and become a leader in luxury watches.
Founded in 1851 by Antoni Patek and Jean Adrien Philippe, it makes watches for the royal family, mastering all the extremely complex functions offered by the watch industry, and has recently become one of the leading brands in silicon technology. It even involves a compliance mechanism, launching aquanaut ref 5650 in 2017, proving that Patek Philippe is still an innovator, not a follower.
chopard
Cars and Cannes are probably Chopin's best known places, thanks to its collaboration with Mille Miglia, the Italian endurance race and the glamorous film festival that sponsored the Palme d'Or trophy. However, it was founded by Louis Ulysse Chopard in 1860 as a pocket watch and female watchmaker.
When the Chopard family ran out, Paul Andr & eacute; Chopard sold the company to German watchmaker Karl Scheufele III, whose son and daughter run the brand today. Its men's watches are now divided into three different categories - classic, inspired by Louis Ulysse's pocket watch; Luc, with its complexity, technological innovation and recent involvement in fairmined; and its classic racing, with all its car style designs.
Omega
Although it was officially founded in 1903, the history of Omega can be traced back to 1848, when its pioneer La Generale Watch Co was founded in La Chaux de fonds. Although the most famous one was to put the first watch on the moon in the form of Speedmaster, it did other things as bond's trusted partner and as an Olympic accountant since 1932.
In 1917, it was chosen as the watch of the Royal Flying team. In 1947, it created the first movement of a tourbillon watch. British watchmaker George Daniels took a lot of opportunities to mass produce his coaxial escapement in 1999, which is considered to be the most important development of watches since the invention of lever escapement in 1755. Finally, in 2013, it launched its first movement with a magnetic field resistance of more than 15000 Gauss.
A real pioneer.
Today, Audemars Piguet still makes about 40000 watches there. Complex watches are still a feature, in part because Renaud et Papi, the famous movement maker, became a subsidiary of AP, but the brand is known for the luxury steel watch trend of the Royal brand designed by Gerald Genta in 1972.
There are other iterations, such as the Royal Oak off shore, and the model with permanent calendar and chronograph functions, but the direct two handed Royal Oak is still Audemars Piguet's iconic phone card.
Rolex
The world's most famous luxury watch brand began in 1905 when Hans wilsdorf lived in London. Obviously, the name came from a suggestion from a Hispanic employee who called the new brand relex short for 'relejes excellentes'. Relex didn't cut it, so wilsdorf changed 'e' to 'o' and made history.
In addition to producing about 2000 watches a day, Rolex is the number one brand. In 1926, oyster was the first waterproof wristwatch, in 1945, DATEJUST ref.4467 was the first automatic date changer, and its 1954 GMT master was the first dual time zone wristwatch.
It is famous for its perfect and well-made watches. No wonder it is said that gold Rolex can be used as currency anywhere in the world.
A. Lange＆Sohne
Despite its appearance, Lange & Sohne's current incarnation has only made watches since the launch of Lange 1 in 1994. There was a pre war company in glasuti, but it was nationalized by the post-war Soviet government. After the reunification of Germany in 1990, Walter Langer was sent back to his former site. He refused and set up Lange 2.0 on the road.
Langer is famous for its complexity and perfection. Each model is mechanical, the movement is made of metal, called German silver and hand carved balance cock. It is also known for its large number of date indicators, zeitwerk's jump time in 2014, and its positioning of the display on the dial according to the golden ratio principle (approximately equal to 1:1.61).
This is the best choice for precision German tabulation.
Patrimony Traditionnelle
No - not the French Revolution, not the Napoleonic War or the two World Wars - since 1755, Constantine has stopped making watches every year. While it makes classic dress styles, jewelry and more sporty designs, Constantine's reputation is built on a long history. A very complicated watch.
It currently has the most complex watch record ever - reference. 57260 - there were 57 complications. No doubt, it's 98mm wide and doesn't fit your wrist.
Its symbol, the Maltese Cross, was originally created by the Maltese Knights during the First Crusade and was chosen because its shape was the same as the parts fixed to its sports barrel, which reduced the number of wheels required for winding. It's been on the dial since 1877.
Cartier
Founded by Louis Francois Cartier in Paris in 1847, he created the first pilot's watch in the form of Santos in 1904, which was specially designed for pilot Alberto Santos Dumont. At that time, he complained to Cartier about the difficulties, and his pocket watch came out in mid air. Since then, Cartier has been known for its core series of decorative art style, which combines with advanced clock design to demonstrate artistic skills and highly complex watch making process.
Other iconic styles include the tank, which was designed to commemorate the invention of the military tank, as well as the drive Cartier. All watches produced by the brand have a blue convex round watch on the crown.
harry winston
Big diamond is Harry Winston's trading stock for nearly 100 years, but in 1989, Harry's son, Ronald, a watch collector, decided to make the chronometer part of his portfolio. Entering the premier series, the 12 o'clock and 6 o'clock cases are decorated with the three arched patterns that are now the hallmarks, and the words' New York 'on the dial Harry Winston is the only Swiss watch that can be said.
In 2001, it entered the field of complex tabulation through its opus series, which has partnered with well-known independent brands such as FP journe, vianne halter and Christophe claret. Although it has stopped, Harry Winston has gained a reputation for their exquisite design and impressive machinery.
Blancpain
Baopo's modern incarnation is also the beginning of Jean Claude Biver's rise as a watch industry manager (he is currently the CEO of TAG Heuer and Hublot). In 1981, due to the quartz crisis, Biver found himself out of work; he decided to stay in the watch, and he convinced his friend Jacques Piguet to buy Blancpain from Omega for 200000 Swiss francs. Biver also bought a small farmhouse and installed 20 watchmakers there, making baopo great again. The new watch must be round with two concentric rings and only mechanical. Ten years later, bever sold bopper to SMH (the predecessor of Swatch Group) for more than 600 million Swiss francs. Bopper has never made a quartz watch, and is famous for icons such as the fifth fathoms diving watch worn by Jacques Cousteau, and is used to restore complex functions that have been forgotten, such as carrousel.
Piaget
If you like ultrathin watches, Piaget is your preferred brand. Since making ultra-thin watches is a complex factor in itself, it was founded by Georges Piaget in 1874 and began to make complex movements for other brands of Vall & eacute; edejoux.
Its thin experiment began in 1957 when it released calibre 9p, a 2mm high manual winding mechanism. From there, Earl created the thinnest motion of the tourbillon, the thinnest flying tourbillon, and in 2014 launched the world's thinnest hand chained mechanical watch altiplano 900p, which is only 3.65mm and uses the base plate as the motherboard (the rest of the watch movement is constructed).
In 2016, it reactivated polo of polo s with Ryan Reynolds as ambassador.
vertex
Zenith would not exist today without Charles vermot. Vermot, an engineer in the brand's & eacute; Bauche division, was almost bankrupt at the time and sold to an American company, zhenlishi radio, in 1971. The new owners see quartz watches as the way forward and demand the use of tools, machines and components, which allows El primero movement to get rid of. Vermot didn't do that, but kept it in the attic of the building.
This means that when it was sold back to the Swiss owner in 1978, Rolex called for a modern movement based on El primero's Daytona, and zenith was able to accept the chf7m deal; it saved the move of Georges Favre jacobt, which was founded in 1865. It's an innovative brand. Another famous movement elite is the first movement designed by CAD, and it recently launched zenith deft laboratory, whose regulator is a single component etched from silicon, which is the most accurate watch in the world.
IWC
IWC is a rare beast. It is a Swiss watch brand founded by American (Aristo Jones of Florence founded in 1868). Jones came to shafhausen because industrialist John Heinrich Moser needed the client's ingenious system to take advantage of the Rhine's water power. The Swiss were not keen on the intruder and taxed him from abroad, so IWC got more local owners.
Despite the development of a watch for the Royal Air Force (Mark IX) and the fact that Edmund & middot; Hillary Clinton became the chronometer for climbing Mount Everest with Sherpa & middot; tysin in 1953, IWC was almost killed by the quartz crisis in the mid-1970s. It was acquired by making watches for Porsche, a relationship that did not end very amicably in 1998. IWC is known for its engineering excellence, and its five main collections make up the perfect watch wardrobe - from clothing to diving through some of the world's best pilot watches.
Bremont
You can't get more British than bremont. Founded in 2002 by Nick and Giles British brothers, both keen pilots, it began to create aviation style watches with super patented three piece case structure.
Since then, it has created watches that can withstand the pressure of being ejected from airplanes, including Supermarine Spitfires (the 1918 Series in 2017), de Haviland (dh-88) and a special edition of Bletchley Park's historical relics (code breaking).
It's with armies all over the world