It was a giant weekend for luxurious watches in Geneva. This previous weekend, the three greatest public sale homes, Phillips, Sotheby’s and Christie’s introduced their public sale to Switzerland, promoting over $108 million USD in whole in luxurious watches. Amongst the massive winners are Rolex, Patek Philippe and F.P. Journe, who have been king of the public sale blocks.
Amongst the numerous watches bought, numerous items hit record-high costs at public sale. At Phillips Public sale, which was held in affiliation with Bacs & Russo’s Geneva Watch Public sale XVII, all tons have been bought with remaining outcomes coming in at $52,488,707 USD. A gem-set Rolex Daytona, Ref. 6270 “The Finish Recreation,” bought for a file $4,105,853 USD. The watch was in yellow godl and featured a pavé diamond dial, sapphire indexes and a baguette diamond bezel and was one in every of two watches that bought for greater than $3 million USD. The second and third-highest tons on the public sale belonged to 2 uncommon Patek Phillippe Ref. 2499 perpetual calendar chronographs watches — one was a second-series ping gold mannequin which bought for $3,261,784 USD whereas the opposite is a first-series yellow gold look ahead to $2,624,859 USD. One other notable first included the primary Biver watch produced by father-son duo Pierre Biver and trade icon Jean-Claude Biver which bought for $1,413,129 USD. A mint situation 1958 Rolex Milgauss additionally bought for a information of $2.5 million USD.
Christie’s hit a sale of over $45 million USD with the mixed whole of its Uncommon Watches and Artwork of F.P. Journe gross sales hitting $29.7 million USD and $15.3 million USD respectively. A Patek Philippe Ref. 5711-1A-018, finest often known as the Tiffany Blue Nautilus topped the Uncommon Watches sale, promoting for $2,498,876 USD. Christie’s additionally bought a uncommon Daytona chronograph watch set with a diamond bezel made in 1985 for the Sultanate of Oman which bought for $1,274,730 USD.
As for Sotheby’s, its Geneva sale totaled simply over $13 million USD with its Vital Watches sale producing $10,614,751 USD and the Centuries of Time: A Personal Assortment of ornamental pocket watches ending at $2,575,919 USD. The highest lot within the Vital Watches sale noticed the Rolex Paul Newman John Participant Particular set a brand new world file at $2,491,655 USD.
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Originally posted 2023-05-18 08:53:37.