Most expensive watches, sophisticate in the world auctioned off Rp260 B

Most expensive watches, sophisticate in the world auctioned off Rp260 B

The most expensive watch

Patek Philippe takes eight years to create hours of Henry Graves in the 1930s.

The most expensive watches in the world and considered the most complicatedwatches construction sold in an auction on Tuesday (11/11) with a price of around US $ 21.3 million (Rp 260 billion).

Clock was made for the American Banker Henry Graves Junior in the 1930s and namedthe Henry Graves Supercomplication.

The last hour was the owner of the art 

collector Qatar, Saud Bin Mohammed Al-Thani and auctioned off in Geneva, Switzerland, two days after he died.

The clock was made by Patek Philippe in 1933 and includes a Bell (HR Tower)Westminster (in the United Kingdom), calendar, time of sunrise and sunset.

Sophisticate watch

Hours of expensive it also contains a map of the night sky in New York as seen fromGraves at Fifth Avenue apartment.

Patek Philippe henry graves

This clock shows the night sky as seen from Graves in New York.

The term "complication" (hassle) in this hour refers to the technical term watchmakingbecause not only to see the desired time, as Henry Graves.

Watchmaker at Patek Philippe, Switzerland, takes eight years to complete that hour.

Hours were sold to help pay debts of Sheikh al-Thani told the auction house Sothebys.

Sheikh al-Thani spent more than US $ 1 billion to build art collections Qatar. (BBC)