Today at 6 P.M. at the Monaco Yacht Show the watch auctioneer Antiquorum will sell 35 limited edition watches from leading makers and give the money to charity. It's a pretty good deal all around, and one blessed with the patronage of Prince Albert II. Antiquorum claims responsibility for selling an impressive 45 of the 66 watches that have ever broken the 1,000,000 Swiss Franc barrier. That should prepare you to have your auction paddle—and your wallet—ready.

Highlights include:
Breguet, Winston Churchill's venerable French watchmaker. They offer a yellow gold Chronograph Classique a Rattrapante, one of seven produced. Schaffhausen's IWC's stainless steel chronograph Fliegeruhr 5026, Perpetual Calendar keeps time, date, and phases of the moon. Feel confident knowing it's the only one ever made. Patek Phillipe's Nautilus Titanium is water-resistant to 60 meters, and made of industrial-strength titanium, suitable for a leader of industry. If you accept the fact that you don't need a chronograph in your everyday life, or when you're wearing a tuxedo, consider the elegant, relatively unadorned Omega, De Ville Hour Vision, Only Watch. Louis Vuitton thinks enough of their Tambour18 Mandarine that when it's not on a lady's wrist it can rest in its own 'mini-trunk.'

—David Coggins