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Why Elvis Presley gave away his one-off Omega wristwatch?

Why Elvis Presley gave away his one-off Omega wristwatch?

A unique Omega wristwatch by Tiffany & Co. will hit auction this May, highlighting the Geneva Watch Auction: SEVEN. But how did the special watch end (...)

Watch auctions: three decades of a legend (part II)

Watch auctions: three decades of a legend (part II)

HISTORY

During the 2000s, the sector saw the arrival of so-called “modern” brands in the watch auction catalogues. Charity events began to (...)

Who are the brands' main competitors? Themselves!

Who are the brands’ main competitors? Themselves!

The sale of a Paul Newman Daytona for 17 million dollars is just the tip of the iceberg. The vintage (and second-hand) market is stealing a march on the (...)

Almost 20 million for a steel Rolex?

Almost 20 million for a steel Rolex?

AUCTIONS

The topic up for debate is whether the auction system is out of control. Is the race to beat the record counter-productive for the watchmaking sector? One (...)

Europa Star: 90 years of editorial adventure

Europa Star: 90 years of editorial adventure

RETROSPECTIVE

At the end of the Roaring Twenties, Swiss entrepreneur Hugo Buchser laid the foundations for the magazine Europa Star. Among tourist guides, a business (...)

Loomes brings British watchmaking to the top of the world

Loomes brings British watchmaking to the top of the world

A unique watch that summited Mount Everest in May 2017 is now being auctioned to raise money for the charity Mountain Trust to help the people of (...)

The holy grail of Rolex watches shatters world record at auction

The holy grail of Rolex watches shatters world record at auction

The Rolex "Paul Newman” Cosmograph Daytona is now the world’s most valuable collector’s watch, worth over USD $17 million. Here’s why it fetched the massive (...)

Bell & Ross launches the Vintage “Bellytanker”

Bell & Ross launches the Vintage “Bellytanker”

Two new vintage inspired models – released in a limited edition of only 500 pieces – pay homage to the sleek bellytanker race cars of the 1940s and (...)

Introducing the “Vintage V5” by Alexander Shorokhoff

Introducing the “Vintage V5” by Alexander Shorokhoff

The new limited edition line features a rare super flat luxury movement from the 1960s Soviet Union, packaged in an elegant retro (...)

Andersen Genève releases one-off Tempus Terrae for Only Watch auction

Andersen Genève releases one-off Tempus Terrae for Only Watch auction

The Swiss watchmaker will donate a special version of the 25th anniversary World Timer Tempus Terrae, featuring a bi-colour dial and blue gold dial and (...)

What's the deal with ‘vintage'? (and beards?)

What’s the deal with ‘vintage’? (and beards?)

It’s not just a trend, it’s become practically an obligation. At Baselworld, you could count on the fingers of one hand the brands that weren’t launching a (...)

Watch auctions: three decades of a legend.

Watch auctions: three decades of a legend.

HISTORY. PART I

In the early 90s, watches at auction could only be found among the general objects to come under the hammer at non-specialist sales. We take a look back in (...)

AUREL BACS : A COLLECTOR OF SUPERLATIVES

AUREL BACS : A COLLECTOR OF SUPERLATIVES

Aurel Bacs has put his stamp on today’s auction world with his record-beating sales. What hidden mechanisms are at work behind these skyrocketing sales (...)

RESURRECTING ANTIQUORUM:

RESURRECTING ANTIQUORUM:

ROMAIN REA’S TRICKY TASK

Despite being the first house to launch thematic auctions devoted to watchmaking under the impetus of the charismatic Osvaldo Patrizzi, Antiquorum has seen (...)

Did you say vintage?

Did you say vintage?

TRENDS

The term ‘vintage’ appears to be invading the entire watchmaking world and yet it covers many very different realities from the authentically ‘vintage’ (...)

Rolex “Bao Dai” sets auction world record

Rolex “Bao Dai” sets auction world record

The diamond-encrusted Rolex 6062, commissioned by the last Emperor of Vietnam, has just sold for a massive 5,066,000 Swiss (...)

Out of Order watches make you say… “OOO”?

Out of Order watches make you say… “OOO”?

Beat up and broken in. That’s what Italian watchmaker Out of Order, or OOO, is offering to watch enthusiasts. Will the design concept have mass (...)

Watch auctions: premium and everything else

Watch auctions: premium and everything else

ANALYSIS

’Everything beautiful is expensive’: such could be the slogan for the current collector watch market. But beyond the record prices for exceptional lots at (...)

VINTAGEMANIA - Introduction

VINTAGEMANIA - Introduction

The fashion for vintage which has boomed over the course of the past decade concerns not only watches – far from it. Vintage is everywhere, in cars, (...)

Tudor mines the productive seam of “reinterpretation”

Tudor mines the productive seam of “reinterpretation”

VINTAGEMANIA

Officially, at Tudor, they don’t use the word “vintage”, preferring the term “retro-chic”. Old models are not “reissued”, they are “reinterpreted”. It was in (...)