In 2024, Phillips Watches sold 1,790 lots at auction
with 25 timepieces selling above US$1 million. Among them were the three examples
pictured below.
This 18ct gold Rolex Cosmograph Daytona with ‘Paul
Newman Lemon dial’, brown ‘tropical’ subsidiary registers and outer track sold
for over US$2.8 million and set the world auction record for Reference 6264.
The Geneva Watch Auction XX, November 2024.
This world time Patek Philippe Ref. 2523/1 in yellow
gold features two crowns, a guilloche dial and metallic city ring. It sold for US$1,934,840.
The Geneva Watch Auction, May 2024.
This magnetic ‘water clock’ by Cartier dates to circa
1929 and came with the original presentation box. It is made of marble, silver,
lapis lazuli, nephrite, coral, mother-of-pearl, enamel and jade. It sold for
US$1,917,657, setting a world record for this kind of timepiece. The Hong Kong Watch Auction XVIII, May 2024.
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