During Christie’s Important Watches auction in Geneva on May 11, the highest price of CHF1,935,800 ($1,751,218) was paid for the rare Patek Philippe wristwatch (pictured above). Another Patek Philippe came in sencond with CHF1,891,000 ($1,710,690) including buyer’s premium.
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Press release: JamesList.com officially launches today
Posted on Jan 23 - Filed Under Miscellaneous | Comments
Fredrik Karlberg, Marketing Director of Stockholm, Sweden based JamiesList.com emailed me to announce that JamesList – a global luxury marketplace – officially launched today. JamesList is a classified ads site focusing on high value, luxury items in many categories including cars, motorcycles, watches, yachts, jets and more. I am not sure who James is – vs Craig Newmark of Craigslist.org – but certainly a good, brandable name for their site. I shall ask. According to their press release, they advertise a combined inventory of over 20,000 luxury items from over 350 dealers world-wide. See below a few selected ones, in the million-dollar range plus some:
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During Christie’s “Jewels: The London Sale” event on December 10, the historic Wittelsbach diamond was sold for a astonishing £16,393,250 ($24,311,191) and became the most expensive diamond and most expensive jewelry ever sold at an auction.
According to Christie’s, the 35.56ct diamond (sometimes just referred as the Wittelsbach) was purchased by the leading international jeweller Laurence Graff, bidding against Aleks Paul of Essex Global Trading.
Patek Philippe watch sold for $475,000
Posted on Aug 1 - Filed Under Jewelry, Miscellaneous | Comments
The Patek Philippe watch below was sold for “only” half a million dollars, so it’s a little bit short of our usual selection criteria, but nevertheless, this is one of the most expensive Patek Philippe I’ve ever seen and in its category, this sale event certainly worth mentioning.
It is a platinum automatic perpetual calendar wristwatch with retrograde date and phases of the moon. The Patek Philippe No.1908044 Ref.5013P was launched in 1992 and is one of the most complex wristwatches ever made by Patek Philippe with a total of 515 parts.
The watch was sold for 241,250 GBP ($475,817)
Other recent, interesting, high-end sales in their respective category at Sotheby’s auction include:
Emerald and diamond braclet by Tiffany & Co was sold for 145,250 GBP (~$287,000)
1990 Chateau Petrus red Bordeaux wine from Pomerol, France was sold for 23,000 GBP (~$45,000)
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