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1) A Zadora Timepiece Costs $150,000
Manufactured by Andreas von Zadora-Gerlof, the face of the virtuoso Zadora Timepiece Swiss-made collection reflects horology whilst time is visible from one of its side. The meander tiara has a briolette cut diamond harmonized well with precious stones. The timepieces functions no less than a wearable jeweled statuette. The latest queen bee model come ornamented with a fragile gold crown, an enamel flower, a pomegranate with a skin of green tsavorites plus black and canary-yellow tinted diamonds, pear-cut emerald eyes with a rococo south sea pearl in its mouth

2) Titanic Watch From Romain Jerome Costs $152,435
A Swiss jeweler has unveiled his range of designer watches manufactured using the hull of the Titanic, the rarest material on Earth. Priced ranging from £75,000 to any $$$$, the timepieces are seamlessly designed after blending the metal with shipbuilding steel. The black dials are formed mixing the improved coal blazed in the Titanic’s boiler with earthenware.

3) Breguet Double Tourbillion Costs $329,000
Hand embossed with a portrayal of a solar system, the Breguet Double Tourbillion comes equipped with a 95% pure platinum case. Priced at $329,000, the two tourbillons are sovereign from one another yet joined by means of discrepancy mechanism and accumulated on a revolving center plate completing a complete upheaval in 12-hours.

4) Versace $227,000 Jewelry Watch
Baselworld 2008 was a gala event that offered a variety of watches but the highlight of the watch fair remained the Versace “not like a watch” watch. The dial of the watch comes coated with around 122 white diamonds. It is being told that three models of this pricey Destiny watch are being sold signifying the worth of brand.
5) $300,000 Timeless Watch Tells Day & Night
If Versace offering wasn’t sufficed to calm your curiosities’ then keep your fingers upon Baselworld 2008 second offering. Depicting day and night time for you, the unique timepiece by Romain Jerome makes use of an obscure Tourbillon association, exposed to surmount earth’s magnitude that used to have a crash on the exactness of watches. Successful in inviting the attention of watch aficionados, it can only be yours if you have spare $300,000.

6) Chapter One Timepiece from Maîtres du Temps Costs $400k
The elegant appeal of ‘The Chapter One watch’ from Maîtres du Temps is a reflection of a worthy alliance between stylish watch manufacturers (designers) Christophe Claret, Peter Speake-Marin and Roger Dubuis. It features a Tourbillon, display GMT and date pointer, mono-pusher chronograph with a 60-minute rotation. Retailed at $400,000, the cost is set minus Swarovski Crystals (crushed glass).

7) Patek Philippe Wristwatch for £1.1million
The antique valuable wristwatch belonging to an Italian magnate, Count Carlo Felice Trossi fetched him £1.1million at a Sotheby’s auction house in Geneva. Called the “Trossi Leggenda”, the model was the highlight amongst other 200 timepieces.

Maurice Lacroix Unveils Starside Watches
Maurice Lacroix’s latest offering of Starside series of watches was exhibited at the Basel show. With its starry appeal, the three limited-edition timepieces sports a 38mm stainless steel container layered with sapphire crystals. Other highlighting specks include the hours, minutes and seconds signal via hands, date indication with central hand and many others.
The pliable dial comes adorned with 32 diamonds and is available in various shades viz. pink, black or beige.

9) Bejeweled Concord C1 Chronograph
Baselworld 2008 was no less than a gateway to the world of designer watches. After Versace designer watch and $300,000 Timeless Watch, here is another model that would offer a necessary update to your wardrobe. The C1 chronograph comes surrounded with a layer of gold and diamonds and features features complex 44mm cases expertise from 18K white gold fitted in 53 individual elements along with 184 diamonds.

10) Piaget love letter limelight watch
The romantic watch collection from Piaget pursues an envelope-concept that camouflages a love letter as their chief formulate model. Christened as love letter limelight watches, these reduced envelopes unfold to expose a black or mother-of-pearl dial set noticeable with diamond. Perfect for a valentine mood!

11) Chopard Unveils $25 mn Watch; World’s Most Expensive One
If the list of aforementioned 10 timepieces is not of your types then here is something that would surely enter your ears, break through your eyes and would surely do a deep hole ion your pocket. Touted as the world’s most expensive watch, the Chopard’s offering of a $25, 000,000 watch has already broken few heads. Justifying its cost, the watch comes festooned with three heart-shaped diamonds weighing 38 carats. So by inking this neat deal, you would be taking home 200-carats diamonds.

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Basel World is known as a celebrated trade show for the watch industry. Having seeing Seiko space watch, Versace $227000 jewelry watch and $300,000 day and night watch….the list is still not complete. Another entrant to the list is an offering by new watchmaking tag team Greubel Forsey making up to this event for the fifth time since its foundation in 1999. They are real watch mechanics who offered a tourbillon, a watch apparatus that tries to accurate the seconds that are intrinsically lost in automatic timepieces.

It’s similar to a two-dimensional gyroscope called “Double Tourbillon 30°” watch. It is developed with two small gyroscopes, each equipped with an angled, revolving dial in the center. It is designed in such a way so that it can worn from any angle as it maintains a balance between action and recline and the watch drops the check of the possible number of seconds. Recently designed “Tourbillon 24 Secondes Incliné” watch integrates a single angled tourbillion that spins every 24 second, thereby touting to be ultra accurate. Against the estimated $425,000 price tag of the double tourbillon, this luxury comes cheap at an affordable price of $200,000. Also, Greubel Forsey’s art piece, the Quadruple Tourbillon Differential, is company’s contemporary and complicated watch with two time-correcting tourbillons that run separately, allow for almost complete precision. Dubbed as “Invention 2, ″ it is priced at $500,000 and is a real marvels in the watch industry. Counted 60-70 watches will be manufactured.

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The Seiko watch company has a convincing tale behind the production of their latest watch viz. the Seiko Spring Drive Spacewalk. Unveiled at Baselworld, the model has been designed to endure the intense surroundings of outer space and word is around that Richard Garriott, the sixth private-citizen space explorer would be carrying it while making a trip this fall.

Garriott, a video game designer by profession and son of a NASA astronaut is in a mood to drop $45 million for his trip and wishes to visit the International Space Station, thereby becoming the first private citizen to do a space walk outside of it. He would be wearing the Seiko Spring Drive Spacewalk over the spacesuit so the watch can help him survive through zero gravity and a setting where heat can get as low as down beating 22 degrees Celsius. It is light in weight and bears a dial with a Lumibrite conduct for readability. The case is air stiff and is designed using high-intensity titanium. This limited edition watch is available in counted 100 models out of which three would be taken away by Garriott on his October adventure and rest 97 will hit the market in December priced at $25,000.

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Those who can’t afford $25 mn timepiece by Chopard can go ahead with Versace. It is clear that Versace is busy branding opulence. Lately at the Watch Fair in Baselworld 2008, the Donatella uncovered the Versace “not like a watch” watch. The dial of the timepiece comes crusted with around 122 white diamonds. By now three of the models of this overpriced Destiny watch are being sold indicating that the Versace lady makes sense. They don’t carry watch to tap time as they have better substitutes (BlackBerrys). Versace lady considers it as their jewelry watch, which is worth flaunting.

The watch is available only on order. Other thingamabobs available at the Baselworld 2008 are Selfy Easy Bed, trespolo and $300,000 timeless watch.

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The long wait for Baselworld 2008, the watch and jewelry industry’s largest annual trade fair came to an end with an exciting bang. Who would have ever wondered the existence of watch that doesn’t depict time but rather whispers the day time or night? Even in any remote possibility, no one has till date given a thought to work on such creation. But the elite brand Romain Jerome has unveiled a Day & Night watch priced at $300,000.

Those who have spare $300,000 to burn should invest in here and take pride in owing this pricey possession. This watch invited the attention of watch aficionados within 48 hrs of its launch. The ‘Day & Night’ watch makes use of an intricate Tourbillon movement, discovered to conquer earth’s gravity that used to have an impact on the accuracy of watches. It has managed to earn the admiration from watch connoisseurs along with fashion fanatics. The show was a clear reflection of the pool of people blindly ready to invest in unique accessories making three cheers for Swiss watch maker Romain Jerome for its luxurious collection. But still I would suggest you to rely on the sunlight and moonshine and shun this idea of spending $$$$ on this watch.

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