Reading Time: 8 minutesHONG KONG – 16 APRIL 2025 – Phillips in Association with Bacs & Russo is delighted to present highlights from the Hong Kong Watch Auction: XX, set to take place from 23-25 May at the company’s Asia headquarters in the West Kowloon Cultural District. Comprised of 258 lots, the sale featuresContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis May, Phillips in Association with Bacs & Russo will present one of the most historically and technically important horological creations of the 20th century: the Breguet Sympathique N°1, designed and built by François-Paul Journe in 1991. This groundbreaking timekeeping ensemble — featuring an Empire-style master clock with yellow gold panels and aContinue Reading
Reading Time: 6 minutesGENEVA – 24 MARCH 2025 – Phillips in Association with Bacs & Russo is delighted to present highlights of the Geneva Watch Auction: XXI, set to take place on 10 and 11 May 2025. Phillips’ first live watch auction of the year will showcase an extraordinary selection of nearly 200Continue Reading
Reading Time: 12 minutesTen years is a brief span in the world of horology, where centuries-old Maisons define the landscape. In this time, Phillips in Association with Bacs & Russo has played an important role in shaping the modern watch auction space, bringing together collectors, experts and enthusiasts. The company has focused onContinue Reading
Reading Time: 7 minutesThe New York Watch Auction: XI, hosted by Phillips in Association with Bacs & Russo, realized $30.3 million, selling 100% by lot and 100% by value. The sale marks four consecutive years of 100%-sold “white glove” sales for the category at Phillips New York – an industry first. Collectors fromContinue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutesBuilding on the remarkable success of Christie’s June Important Watches auction, which realized a total of US$13,250,000 with every lot sold, the eagerly awaited December sale is poised to again captivate collectors and aficionados alike. Carefully assembled by a global team of watch experts, the New York auction will feature 104Continue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutesDubai – Christie’s announces its seasonal Watches Online: The Dubai Edit comprising 124 lots, a bespoke Middle Eastern horology sale curated by the longstanding Dubai-based Christie’s team of three specialists, representing men’s and women’s timepieces, catering for dedicated and new collectors seeking rare vintage or modern timepieces in the secondaryContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesGeneva – Christie’s Geneva welcomed ELA (European Leukodystrophy Association) and Zinedine Zidane, ELA’s Ambassador for 24 years to the first Watches for ELA auction, held on 11 November 2024 opening Rare Watches. 11 unique watches donated by ANDERSEN Genève X BCHH, ArtyA, Ataelier Haute Complication, Bovet, Girard-Perregaux, Konstantin Chaykin, Louis Erard, Montblanc,Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesHong Kong – Christie’s Hong Kong is delighted to invite watch enthusiasts, collectors, and connoisseurs to its upcoming live auction, Important Watches, featuring The Collectibles Part 2, taking place on October 27 at 2PM HKT. A landmark event by any standard, this edition crowns the series of inaugural auctions atContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesGeneva — Among the treasures to be presented at the upcoming Rare Watches auction in Geneva in November, Christie’s will offer an exceptionally rare and historically important timepiece: Breguet No. 3218. This tonneau-shaped perpetual calendar wristwatch with retrograde date and moon phases, produced in 1935, was sold to the celebratedContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis December, Phillips in Association with Bacs & Russo is proud to offer what can be considered the most important wristwatch by Philippe Dufour ever to appear at auction — a unique, previously unknown Grande & Petite Sonnerie minute repeating wristwatch with open dial made of transparent sapphire crystal. CompletelyContinue Reading