The world's most expensive watch – sold for a cool £15.1 million. The Henry Graves Supercomplication, hand-made by Patek Philippe, is the most complex timepiece ever created.
It has 24 features – called complications - including the Westminster chimes, a perpetual calendar and a map of the stars above the home of New York banker Henry Graves, who commissioned it in 1925.
Frantic bidding at Sotheby’s in Geneva saw the hammer go down to a huge bid by an agent identified only as “the man in a red tie”.
And if you have a few more millions knocking about, here are a few more “world’s most expensive”...
Teddy bear
You couldn’t let the kids touch this £110,000 Steiff bear called Teddy Girl. But first owner Colonel Bob Henderson took her everywhere, even the D-Day landings. Made in 1905, it was sold in 1994 to Japanese businessman Yoshihiro Sekiguchi.
Cat
There are only 200 Californian Spangled Cats in the world. They were bred by Hollywood scriptwriter Paul Casey who crossed many types to develop a breed resembling a spotted wildcat. One was bought annymously for £15,925 in 1987.
Cap
The most valuable piece of cricket history is Aussie legend Sir Donald Bradman’s 1948 cap. Australian Who Wants to be a Millionaire winner Tim Serisier bought it in June 2003 for £170,000. He sold it in 2008 for a loss of several thousand.
Fish
A 30in ginrin showa koi was supreme champion for three years before it was sold for £50,000 in 1980. Six years later dealer Derry Evans, of Sevenoaks, Kent, bought it for an uknown sum but it soon died. It has now been stuffed and mounted.
Whisky
At £7,278 a dram you would sip 64-year-old Macallan very, very slowly from its Lalique decanter. A bottle sold for £291,125 at Sotheby’s, New York, in 2010.
YorkshirePudding
The Devonshire Arms in Bolton Abbey, Yorks, created a £500 giant which included a beer-fed Dexter beef fillet, a whole Black Perigord truffle from France and a gold leaf.
Monopoly
San Francisco jeweller Sidney Mobell created 23 carat gold a set worth £1.4m. The chimneys are topped with rubies and sapphires. The dice have 42 diamonds for spots.
Camera
Only 25 prototype Leica 35mm cameras were produced in 1923 for testing and only 12 are known to still be around. One was sold for £1.73 million in 2012.
Jeans
Just two or three pairs of pre-1900 Levi 501s exist. The only wearable pair was found in an old silver mine in California. They were sold for £33,230 to a Japanese collector on eBay.
Perfume
One fluid ounce of Clive Christian’s No.1 for Men or Women costs £1,317. In 2005, he created the even more costly No.1 Imperial Majesty at £115,000 for 17 fl oz. It came in Baccarat crystal with a five-carat white diamond and an 18-carat gold collar. Plus delivery by Bentley.
Musical instrument
A 1721 “Lady Blunt” Stradivarius, one of the best preserved in the world, was sold in 2011 for £9,808,000.
Record
Still known as the Quarrymen, the Beatles’ recordings of That’ll Be The Day and In Spite of all the Danger was made into just one acetate disc. It’s now owned by Paul McCartney and it was estimated to be worth £200,000 two years ago.
Car
Trail your £15million watch out of the window of a1962 Ferrari 250 GTO, sold for £23 million in August.
Carpet
No walking allowed on a 18x19 ft Louis XV Savonnerie rug, thought to be from Louis XV’s Château de la Mouette around 1740. It made £2,993,512 at auction in New York in 2000.
Home
Antilia, a 27-storey, 400,000-sq ft tower built by oil billionaire Mukesh Ambani in 2010, dominates the Mumbai skyline. Named after a mythical Atlantic island, it has six underground levels of parking, three helicopter pads and needs 600 staff to run it. It is valued at £630million.
Potato
These not-so-humble La Bonnotte spuds will cost you £400 a kilo to mash. Once they were only grown on the French island of Noirmoutier but now they have been planted on Jersey, which has a similar climate. Seaweed fertiliser gives them a distinctive salty, nutty taste, according to the few to have tried them.
