10 Most Expensive Yachts Owned by Billionaires (One Is Worth $700 Million)

Why would anyone spend $700 million on a boat? This 10-minute documentary counts down the most expensive superyachts owned by billionaires, from Jeff Bezos's three-masted Koru and the Launchpad yacht linked to Mark Zuckerberg to Roman Abramovich's Eclipse, the 156-metre Dilbar and the Philippe Starck-designed Sailing Yacht A, frozen in Italy since 2022. 🛥️ In this video: Viktor Rashnikov's Ocean Victory, Launchpad and her support ship Wingman, Shahid Khan's Kismet, Nord and its voyage through the Strait of Hormuz, Koru and the Rotterdam bridge row, Serene and the Salvator Mundi story, Sailing Yacht A, Solaris, Dilbar and Eclipse. Plus the truth about the "$4.8 billion" History Supreme gold yacht, and why Azzam and Scheherazade are not on the list. ⏱️ Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:58 #10 Ocean Victory 1:47 #9 Launchpad 2:35 #8 Kismet 3:19 #7 Nord 4:07 #6 Koru 5:02 #5 Serene 5:58 #4 Sailing Yacht A 6:50 #3 Solaris 7:39 #2 Dilbar 8:36 #1 Eclipse 9:31 Outro Ranked by the best-supported reported value: build cost, sale price or official estimate. Billionaires rarely publish what they pay, so every price is reported or estimated, from sources including Forbes, Reuters, the US Treasury, the Italian government and The New York Times. Where ownership is not officially confirmed, the yacht is described as "linked to" or "reportedly" owned. 👉 Subscribe to Luxe Updates Daily for more stories about luxury, wealth and the world's most extraordinary things. 📷 Photo credits (Wikimedia Commons, public domain or Creative Commons): • MY-Langkawi-Ocean-Victory — Balou46 (CC BY-SA 4.0) • Ocean Victory Ibiza — ArnoLippertPhotography (CC BY-SA 4.0) • MY Launchpad - San Diego — RON RAFFETY (CC BY-SA 2.0) • MY Launchpad - San Diego - 54118580294 — RON RAFFETY (CC BY-SA 2.0) • Kismet — ClaireHagen29 (CC0) • Nord IMO 9853785 S Hamburg 19-09-2021 — Wolfgang Fricke (CC BY 3.0) • Yacht Nord in Vladivostok — Dimetr (CC BY-SA 4.0) • Koru Superyacht — Conmat13 (CC BY-SA 4.0) • Abeona — Conmat13 (CC BY-SA 4.0) • Serene 2 — Nick Wells (Ngw2009 at English Wikipedia) (CC0) • Serene devant juan les pins — Abxbay (CC BY-SA 3.0) • Serene detail — Abxbay (CC BY-SA 3.0) • A Uebergabe Kiel — KarleHorn (CC BY-SA 3.0) • S-Y A — Sasha-int (CC BY-SA 4.0) • Nobiskrug Sailing Yacht A © S. Geraci — Kieler seagull (CC BY-SA 4.0) • Color Magic syA — KarleHorn (CC BY 3.0) • My Solaris in Göcek 2025 — Karachun (CC BY-SA 4.0) • MY Solaris at dock — Cannazon (CC BY-SA 4.0) • Dilbar - Antibes - nov. 2019 - 01 — Sukkoria (CC BY-SA 4.0) • Dilbar - Antibes - nov. 2019 - 04 — Sukkoria (CC BY-SA 4.0) • Dilbar - Antibes - nov. 2019 - 07 — Sukkoria (CC BY-SA 4.0) • Dilbar Antibes — Frankkaribik (CC BY-SA 4.0) • Dilbar IMO 9661792 S Hamburg 01-11-2021 (2) — Wolfgang Fricke (CC BY 3.0) • ECLIPSE1 — Keld Gydum (Frederikshavn, Denmark) (Public domain) • Eclipse hamburg — AG1965 (CC BY-SA 3.0) • Eclipse docked in Nassau Jan 12, 2011 — DCwom (CC BY-SA 3.0) • Eclipse (yacht) 01 — Arnaud 25 (CC BY-SA 4.0) • Port, vaixell i hotel W — Enfo (CC BY-SA 3.0) • 1343 Azzam — Gerd Fahrenhorst (CC BY 3.0) • AzzamCadiz — Javier Virués Ortega (CC BY-SA 4.0) • El buque Azzam atracado en el Puerto de Vigo — Pedro Vicente Seoane Prado (CC BY-SA 4.0) 🎵 Music: "River Flow" and "Opalescent" by Eugenio Mininni, "Vastness" by Andrew Ev (Mixkit Stock Music Free License) 🎬 Stock footage: Mixkit (Mixkit Stock Video Free License) #superyacht #billionaire #luxury