- [Voiceover] While today's billionaires mostly spend
their money on cars, houses, and private planes,
those with obscene amounts of money in the early 1900s
were interested in smaller, classier things
to spend their money on.
Originally commissioned by Henry Graves, Jr. in 1925,
for the equivalent of $202,000,
the Graves Supercomplication time piece
is now worth 25 million dollars.
It was created by Patrick Philippe,
in an effort to out-do
the Grand Complication pocket watch
of American auto maker James Ward Packard,
the Supercomplication is the world's most expensive,
most important, and most complicated vintage time piece.
With 24 functions, including Westminster chimes,
split seconds chronograph,
perpetual calendar accurate to the year 2100,
and a celestial chart for the nighttime sky
of New York City.
The watch weighs in at one pound,
is 73 millimeters wide,
and made of 18 karat gold.
The wealthiest man in the world, Bill Gates,
is known for many things,
however, it is perhaps less known
that he is a huge fan of Leonardo da Vinci,
but not for his paintings, for his inventions and designs.
Gates purchased the Leicester Codex,
da Vinci's most famous journal for 30.1 million dollars,
making it the world's most expensive book.
The journal is a collection of scientific writings,
with a mixture of da Vinci's observations and theories.
After buying the journal, Gates had the pages scanned,
and then used some of them as screensavers
and wallpaper files as part of Microsoft Plus,
for Windows 95.
Clive Palmer is known for his unusual investments
and claim to have said that he wants to spend
all of his 2.2 billion dollars before he dies.
Driven by his love of the movie, Jurassic Park,
Palmer decided to fund the cloning of dinosaurs.
He wanted to use the cloned dinosaurs
in his dinosaur park in Australia.
Because you know, that worked out so well
for everyone in every movie of the series.
When the cloning fell through,
he settled for dinosaur replicas for his park,
which was closed down after opening.
Palmer's now on his next project, Titanic II,
set to launch in 2018.
Owner of the Chelsea Football Club
and Millhouse, LLC, Roman Abramovich,
has an eight billion dollar net worth.
In 2010, Abramovich bought a 500 million dollar yacht
called the Eclipse.
The yacht is 533 feet long,
and includes its own missile detection system,
two helicopter pads, a luxury spa,
two swimming pools, a dance club,
and a mini-submarine.
The Eclipse was the largest private yacht in the world
for three years, until the Eclipse itself
was eclipsed by the Azzam, 57 feet longer,
and commissioned by
the President of the United Arab Emirates,
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
Feeling that a mansion just wouldn't cut it,
Mukesh Ambani, India's richest man,
built a skyscraper for his personal residence.
The Antilia has 27 stories with extra-high ceilings,
making it equivalent to buildings with 60 floors.
The home is valued at one to three billion dollars
and includes four million square feet of space
above the Mumbai slums.
It takes over 600 caretakers,
and is the world's second-most expensive residence,
after Buckingham Palace,
however, since the palace is technically
a government building, the Antilia is the most expensive
private residential property.
Attempting to create a generation of geniuses,
Robert Klark Graham opened what was known as
the Nobel sperm bank in 1980.
The initial criteria for donation were simple,
you had to have won a Nobel Prize.
However, after the majority of the donations
had low viability due to the old age of the donors,
Graham had to loosen his requirements
to allow donations from "lesser minds."
A total of 229 children were born from this sperm bank
before it closed down in 1999,
two years after Graham's death.
Little is known about the outcomes of his experiment,
due to very few people wanting to take surveys
Graham wanted them to take.
However, it is reported that one child
from this sperm bank was studying algebra
and Hamlet in Kindergarten.
Known as the queen of mean,
Leona Helmsley lived up to her title on her death bed,
cutting two of her four grandchildren out of her will.
The hotelier left 12 million dollars
to her dog, named Trouble.
Feeling that 12 million dollars was excessive
to fulfill his purpose,
the courts reduced the dog's trust to two million dollars,
which is much more reasonable for a dog to comfortably live.
Trouble had an appointed caretaker,
paid $60,000 per year,
to make sure the dog had everything it needed
for a happy and healthy life.
The dog rode around in a stretch limo,
and received 'round the clock security,
which is actually needed,
considering the death threats it received.
The Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah,
is known for his frivolous spending.
He once paid 15,000 pounds for a haircut,
and even ordered a special cabin for the barber
to ensure he wouldn't get any diseases on the plane ride.
He also owns a gold-plated Rolls Royce,
called the Star of India.
Thinking that a personal jet was not quite big enough
for him and all of his friends,
the Sultan bought a Boeing 747 430 for 400 million dollars.
He then spent an additional 120 million dollars
to fix it up with gold-plated turquoise furniture,
and wash basins made of gold and Lalique Crystal.
Also known for a lavish lifestyle,
Jocelyn Wildenstein spent $60,000 per year
on her phone bill, and has a $550,000 annual budget
for food and wine,
but that is not even the most ridiculous part.
Wildenstein has spent over four million dollars
on plastic surgery on her face,
specifically, she has spent that amount
to make her face look as cat-like as possible,
because her husband at the time loved big cats.
The gesture didn't work out
and the couple ended up getting a divorce.
Regardless, Jocelyn is happy with her cat-like appearance.
Known as the Rainbow Sheikh,
Hamad bin Hamdan Al Nahyan wants to be larger than life,
and he wants the whole world and universe
to know who he is.
The member of the Abu Dhabi royal family
inherited a private island of 50 square kilometers.
On the island, he carved his name to stake his claim,
however the name wasn't just carved into a rock,
or put on a plaque,
rather, his name was dug into the earth
with one kilometer tall letters.
The letters were dug so deep,
that they actually became canals,
and his name could be seen from space.
The letters were removed in 2012
for some unknown reason.
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