Most Expensive Pocket Watches Sold at Auction (All Time)

About This Dataset

Pocket watches ranked by hammer price at public auction in millions of USD. The Henry Graves Supercomplication — a Patek Philippe pocket watch made between 1925 and 1932 for New York banker Henry Graves — sold at Sotheby's Geneva in 2014 for $24 million, the highest price ever paid for a pocket watch at auction at the time. Containing 24 complications including a celestial chart of the New York night sky, it was the most complex watch ever made and remained unsurpassed for decades.

Analysis

Queen Marie Antoinette Breguet (1827) heads the table on 30, ahead of Henry Graves Supercomplication (Patek Philippe) (24) and Vacheron Constantin Ref 57260 (8) in Auction Price (Million USD) in 2021. 29.5 separates the highest figure (30) from the lowest (0.47). First and second are separated by 6, so the leader sits inside the field rather than apart from it. Only 2 of the 8 reach even half the leader's figure (15 or more).

Source: Wikipedia

Key Findings

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Queen Marie Antoinette Breguet (1827) leads in Auction Price (Million USD) with 30 in 2021.

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1999 recorded the highest combined total across all categories.

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Gap in 2021: Queen Marie Antoinette Breguet (1827) is 63.8× larger than Abraham Lincoln Gold Watch (1858).

Most Expensive Pocket Watches Sold at Auction (All Time)

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Top Value

Queen Marie Antoinette Breguet (1827)

Auction Price (Million USD) · 1999

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Metrics

Auction Price (Million USD)

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Period

1999 – 2021

8 years of data

Methodology & source

Data source: Wikipedia
Coverage: 8 entities · 1999–2021 (8 years) · 8 observations
Measure: Auction Price (Million USD)
Last updated: 6 September 2026
Compiled by: The ANYSTAT team, from the source above

How the figures are calculated

Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
Missing years are left empty rather than estimated — no interpolation, no carrying a previous year forward.
Change is measured between the first and last year in which an entity actually reported a value, so a series that starts late is not penalised for the years before it existed.
The compound annual rate is (last ÷ first)^(1 ÷ years) − 1, using those same two reported years.
Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2021.
An entity that reported nothing in the latest year is still listed — it follows the ranked entities in the table rather than being dropped.

Rankings & Full Data

8 records · Auction Price (Million USD) · ranked by 2021

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#	Category	1999	2009	2014	2015	2016	2019	2020	2021	Change
🥇	Queen Marie Antoinette Breguet (1827)	30	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
🥈	Henry Graves Supercomplication (Patek Philippe)	—	—	24	—	—	—	—	—	—
🥉	Vacheron Constantin Ref 57260	—	—	—	8	—	—	—	—	—
4	Calibre 89 (Patek Philippe)	—	6.10	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
5	George III Gold Automaton Watch	—	—	—	—	—	4.70	—	—	—
6	Patek Philippe Ref 912 (1925)	—	—	—	—	2.80	—	—	—	—
7	Napoleon Bonaparte Gold Pocket Watch	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.20	—
8	Abraham Lincoln Gold Watch (1858)	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.47	—	—