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For some, the watch is still the ultimate status symbol -- and people are willing to pay pretty outrageous sums. Can you hazard a guess as to how much these watches cost?The 18K gold Pulsar costs a cool $2,100. To put that into perspective, you could have bought a car for that much in 1972.
The Astron was a limited edition of only 100 watches and was sold in Japan for 450,000 yen, or about $1,250. Again, some perspective: This was the same price as a Toyota Corolla.
Texas Instruments made quite a splash with the 503 at a price of $20 -- the cheapest digital watch before it had been $49.95.
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The original Swatches had a starting price of 39.90 Swiss francs, or about $38.
You can barely see the watch face for the diamonds on the $25 million Chopard 201-carat Watch (yes, that's the actual name). According to many sources, it's the most expensive watch in the world.
In 1999, an anonymous collector bought this extremely complex gold pocket watch, completed in 1932, for $11 million.
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If you need a perpetual calendar and astronomical indicator on your watch, you might like this one. Oh, and you'll also need $1.5 million.
If you have a million bucks to spend on a watch but don't want to be too ostentatious, the Black Caviar Bang is for you. Black diamonds aren't quite so flashy.
The meteorite, as far as we can tell, isn't a functional part of the watch -- but if you have $860,000 to spend on a watch, you're probably not worried about things like that.
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