Esquire: The Best Chronographs Over £10,000 That A Man Can Buy In 2020
“Hopefully by now you’ve read our list of the best chronographs for less than £10,000. That was a lot of fun to put together and contains some absolutely incredible watches. But this is the full fat, sky’s-the-limit list: the best chronographs you can buy for £10,000 or more. Emphasis on “more” – we have some spellbindingly good watchmaking here.
As before, a word about the internal logic that has gone into this. No matter how tough the decision, only one watch can be included per brand. Sorry Patek Philippe, A. Lange & Sohne, Vacheron – that’s just the way it is. The other thing to mention is that while there are plenty of chronographs with a £10,000+ price tag from the likes of Rolex, IWC, Breitling and others, that has usually come about because you’ve swapped steel for gold. If there’s more to it than that, then fair enough. But otherwise, fundamentally it’s the same watch, so our thinking has been that unless that switch to precious metals genuinely improves the watch, that doesn’t make it worthy of inclusion on this list.”
