The May 9 Rare Watches auction brims with timepieces that live (way) up to the promise embedded in its name.
contemporary timepieces ever to appear at auction.” Christie’s Geneva is selling 30 of the collection’s 128 pieces on May 9. The lots make up part one of a three-part auction that picks up in Hong Kong on May 24 and concludes in New York, in a two-evening sale June 8 and 9.in Geneva are the 5959 split-second chronograph in rose gold, the smallest split second that Patek makes, and the 5074 perpetual calendar minute repeater, which is impossible to get,” says Davis.
On the vintage end, the Royal Oak “Golden” Tropical Mark 1 diamond index dial Ref. 5402BC is the very definition of rare. “To the best of our knowledge, the present watch is the only example of a white gold reference 5402 with diamond dial that is so fully and evenly tropicalized,” according to the sale notes. “The dial is quite sensational and of unparalleled beauty, having tropicalized from the original black to a shimmering golden bronze color fading to leave an even darker outer edge.
“When it comes to Clapton, what a collector wants is the watch and a picture of him on stage wearing the watch,” says Davis. “To have that level of story and provenance, that is the ultimate.”Lovers of Cartier’s shaped watches—notably, the highly sought-after Crash, whose apocryphal origin tale stretches back to London in the mid-1960s and does, indeed, include a car accident—would no doubt agree in the value of a good story. Which may explain why Lot 133, a c.
“You don’t see many Breguet watches from the ’50s and ’60s—Breguet functioned as a brand in those years, but really by special orders,” Davis says. “They had very minimal production and this watch is an example of that. The fact that this watch exists and in this condition is extraordinary.”
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