Vintage Patek Philippes, especially chronographs, create their own buzz when sold at auction. Anything to do with J.F.K. causes even more buzz. Put them together and you get a Patek Philippe Ref. 1463 from 1948 that is up for auction… Read More ›
Auctions
Bought at car boot sale for £25, Sean Connery’s ‘Thunderball’ watch to be auctioned
Whether you’re a watch enthusiast or not, whether you are a fan of the James Bond film franchise (or even Fleming’s books) or not, you probably love a story about a random discovery that nets the finder something rather special…. Read More ›
Horses vs watches
Being Australian, there is a citizenship requirement to be interested in the Melbourne and Caulfield Cups at a very bare minimum. Although I know and have known people actively interested in the industry, the nature of the equine racing biz… Read More ›
Qatari Sheikh revealed as Graves Supercomplication owner
Sheikh Saud Bin Mohammed Bin Ali Al-Thani, a member of the Qatari royal family (second cousin to the ruling Emir) and former Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage, has been revealed as the previously unknown owner of the Henry Graves… Read More ›
AUCTION RESULTS : George Daniels collection fetches £8,285,139
Where were you on November 6, 2012? Well if you were in London, interested in watches and you could get there, you were probably squashed into the standing-room only Sotheby’s sale room for the auction of the late George Daniels’… Read More ›
Scarcity and provenance : Eric Clapton’s Ref. 2499/100 Patek Philippe
In the book collecting world, ‘association copies’ often command higher prices, especially if a gift from a notable author to a similarly notable (and perhaps literary) recipient. In the watch world this concept currently seems most commonly manifested via the… Read More ›
Would you like a side of moon to go with your Speedy?
Well you can, the small technicality of funds nothwithstanding, as a 4lb chunk, the fourth-largest piece of lunar rock here, is up for auction. Otherwise called DaG 1058, this breccia originating from the far side of the moon has the… Read More ›
A Monaco ‘worn by Steve McQueen’ fetches an astonishing $650,000
What is a ‘Monaco worn by Steve McQueen’? This was a question that I didn’t feel qualified to answer when I was told by a friend of a ‘Profiles in History’ auction of a watch described as “Steve McQueen hero… Read More ›
Would you like to own one of Clark Gable’s watches?
Now what sort of watch do you think Clark Gable wore? Well it turns out that he didn’t restrict himself to a single watch, and that he was a man of varied tastes. Two of his watches, both looking lovingly… Read More ›
Breguet acquires important Turkish pocket watch at auction
The Breguet Museum at Place Vendôme has acquired a historically important watch made in 1808 for a dignitary of the Ottoman Empire for CHF 650,000 (approx US$695,000), a record for a Turkish-style Breguet watch, and also a record for a… Read More ›
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