Top 10 Most Expensive Pens In The World

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Top 10 Most Expensive Pens In The World

10. Conway Stewart Westminster Teal Pen

Priced at $1,800, British pen company Conway Stewart has released the latest version of this popular pen this time in teal enamel. The pen takes its design cues from the palace of Westminster with its Gothic style engraving on the cap and barrel. The small diamond-shaped recesses mimic the detail on the palace and the tiny oak leaves are a symbol of England. The pen is available in an edition of 100 fountain pen or rollerball writing modes.

9. Graf von Faber-Castel Pens

The core feature of the Graf von Faber-Castell Custom Pens is wood in different variations. In Pen of the Year 2008, the outer layer of the barrel is made of Indian satinwood. No fewer than 84 Satinwood rectangles are hand-cut for the filigree herringbone pattern. The pen is crowned by a chessboard-facted citrine gemstone, platinised fittings and an 18-carat bicolour gold nib, carefully run in by hand. It comes in a wooden case with a brochure and a certificate for the pen collector. It’s priced at $2,000.

8. Fifth Avenue rollerball and fountain pens

Each of the 1,929 luxurious New York Fifth Avenue rollerball and fountain pens hand-made by S T Dupont required about 160 hours of supervision. Result was taupe- and brunette-coloured lacquer fountain pens worth $2,400. These pens are embellished with a gold and silver relief overlay, which features a central globe design.

7. La Dona Menagerie Fountain Pen

Handcrafted by Cartier, these pens belong to the most exquisite designer range of writing instruments priced at about $4,000. Cartier La Dona Menagerie is named after the 1940′s, cine star Maria Felix, who was also known as ‘La Do�a- the Mexican Marilyn Monroe. It was on her request, the luxury jewellery designer Cartier customised a crocodile necklace in gold. This necklace inspired Cartier to design and develop 888 individually numbered fine pieces of La Dona pens, the second offering in the Menagerie Collection. Made of expensive materials, such as gold, Cartier pen has a gold-plated nib, which is carved with a crocodile head.

6. David Oscarson Pens

Of these lot, the Pierrot White Fountain Pen is the most expensive costing about $4,900. Through Pierrot White Fountain Pen, David Oscarson has introduced a unique collection representing the old world craftsmanship in an attractive range of designer pens. In fact, David Oscarson is the first pen making company to integrate five colours of hard enamel and three levels of guilloche on each fountain pen, which is finished in rhodium vermeil with natural backgrounds.

5. OMAS Limited Edition Pens

These pens are sold for $16,500. The Corinthian style votive monument erected by Lysicrates is recreated on the cap and the Laocoon sculpture dominates the barrel. The clip of the pen is one of the columns of the votive monument. The cap has a pure diamond set on the end of it.

4. Grayson Tighe Limited Edition fountain and rollerball pens

These pens are sold for a price of $22,000 to $24,000. They are 18K gold Victorian royalty executive custom made collectors pens.The nib of Grayson Tighe fountain pens is custom hand-made in Germany with 18K yellow gold. It’s engraved with a specially designed Acanthus leaf, tipped with iridium, and two toned with rhodium. Grayson Tighe rollerball pens have an advanced refill that has a 1 Year cap-off time.

3. Ripple HRH Limited Edition Visconti fountain pen

Made of 18K white gold and diamonds and with two-tone 18K gold nib, it costs $57,000. It has double reservoir filling system and is sold in two variations — white gold and black. Another distinguished Visconti pen is the Forbidden City HRH Limited Edition fountain pen. Made of black resin, 18K gold and diamonds and boasting of Power Filler innovative filling system invented by Visconti, it is sold for $42,200.

2. La Modernista Diamond Pens

It was made by the Swiss company Caran d’Ache in 1999 as homage to architect Antonio Gaudi.
The fountain pen was sold in Harrods, London, for $265,000.
La Modernista Diamonds is made of rhodium-coated solid silver components.
It boasts of an 18-carat rhodium-coated gold nib and is set with a total of 5,072 Wesselton diamonds weighing in at 20-carats, as well as and 96 rubies totalling 32-carats.
The pen was hand-made by master jeweler Robert Perron and it took him six months to complete this true masterpiece of writing instruments.

1. The Limited Edition Mystery Masterpiece

A joint creation between Mont blanc and Van Cleef & Arpels, this is the most expensive writing pen ever created. It costs $730,000!

Each pen has 840 diamonds and more than 20 carats of gemstones set in a Van Cleef & Arpels patented ‘Mystery Setting’ that conceals the stone settings. There are three variations of the pen, set either with rubies, sapphires or emeralds, and accented by diamonds. Artisans took over 18 months to create this pen.

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Top 10 World’s Most Expensive Watches

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10. Zadora Timepieces

Manufacturer: Andreas von Zadora-Gerlof

The latest offering by Andreas von Zadora-Gerlof is a bee of oxidised palladium and micro pave. The bee is adorned with black and canary yellow diamonds, pear-shaped emerald eyes with a baroque south sea pearl in its mouth.
Price: $150,000

9. Titanic Watches

Manufacturer: Romain Jerome

A Swiss jeweller is now offering watches made from the hull of the Titanic.
The metal has been mixed with shipbuilding steel to make the casing. The black dials have been made by mixing the recovered coal burned in the Titanic’s furnaces with ceramics.
Price: $152,435

8. Double Tourbillon

Manufacturer: Breguet

The Breguet Double Tourbillion** comes hand-engraved with an image of the solar system.
This double-tourbillon watch has a 95 per cent pure platinum case while the blued-steel Breguet hands are wound manually and do not contain springs.
Price: $329,000

7. Opera One

Manufacturer: Girard-Perregaux

This beautiful platinum timepiece includes an alligator band and features a Westminster minute repeater and tourbillon with three gold bridges, manual winding, 75-hour power reserve and a see-through backing.
The watch has a power reserve indicator, a subsecond complication, a minute repeater and a truly elegant face.
What differentiates Girard-Perregaux’s Opera Three from other luxury watches is its ability to sound passing hours not with a beep but with actual tunes.
Price: $495,000

6. Grande Complication

Manufacturer: Blancpain

This wristwatch has a minute repeater, split-seconds chronograph, tourbillon, perpetual calendar, moon phase and an automatic winding mechanism.
The sleek crocodile wristband further adds to the look. It takes the maker eight to 10 months to piece together all 740 components and only 18 of a limited run of 30 watches have been assembled till now.
Price: $785,000

5. Tecnica Skeleton Chronograph

Manufacturer: Parmigiani Fleurier

This watch hit the market early this year.
Each unit of the watch includes a platinum case and other interesting features like a minute repeater, tourbillon and chronograph, as well as a cathedral chime.
Price: $850,000

4. Classical Billionaire Tourbillion

Manufacturer: Corum

The shimmering wristwatch is adorned with 850 diamonds and boasts a dazzling skeleton dial with skeleton hour and minute hands. The watch is manually wound with 90-hour power reserve and features Caliber CO-372 by Corum and La Joux-Perret.
Rightly named so, the Billionaire Tourbillion comes in many versions with price ranging from $325,000 to $998,000. Only 10 pieces are in production.
Price: $998,000

3. Big Bang Chronograph

Manufacturer: Hublot, Bunter SA

The renowned watchmaker, Hublot, in alliance with a diamond-setting workshop, Bunter SA, designed and developed an elite watch dubbed Big Bang.
The $1-million Big Bang boasts a fully invisible setting that makes the material disappear. Only things that can be seen are the diamonds.
The credit goes to the craftsmen who accomplished the tedious job of making this exclusive watch, which was not feasible a few years ago.
Price: $1 milllion

2. Tour de l’Ile

Manufacturer: Vacheron Constantin

Vacheron Costantin’s Tour de l’Ile was designed in 2005. The collectible piece is also the most complicated double-face watch, and only produced in a limited edition of seven.
This 834-part watch took over 10,000 man-hours to be made and features an 18-carat silver gold dial with a hand-sewn alligator leather band and pink gold buckle.
It touts an original combination of horological complications and astronomical indications forming 16 different points, including a minute repeater, sunset time, perpetual calendar, second time zone, and a tourbillon device.
Price: $1.5 million

1. Joaillerie 101 Manchette

Manufacturer: Jaeger-LeCoultre

Joaillerie 101 Manchette is the

most Expensive watch in the world

In this watch, a unsystematic series of polished or gem-set links (a jewellery puzzle) hides the exalted Calibre 101.
It’ss wonderful to look for the time through the gold, diamonds and onyx cabochons.
The wristwatch is festooned with 576 diamonds and comes in 18-carat white gold. The versions with Onyx have 400 diamonds and 11 onyx cabochons.
Price: Unknown at the moment