A watch auction at Christie’s International yesterday landed 15.1 million Swiss francs, beating their rivals Sotherbys who failed to hit their target. One watch, a Patek Philippe with a calendar that automatically adjusts to leap years, sold for $1.8 million! Not bad in these times of economic and financial crisis…not bad at all.
Sotherbys pulled in 3.75 million francs at an auction in the same city on May 10th, they estimated they would pull in around 3.8 million, a mere 50,000 francs short of their target. Pocket change.
If you’ve got an old watch lying about the place it’s probably about time you got it valued, you could be holding onto something truly special.
The Patek Philippe sale at the Christie’s international auction was good enough to sneak into our most expensive watches list.
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