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Discovering Rolexes and Millennials At The Christie’s 2022 Uncommon Watches Public sale

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May 11, 2022
Discovering Rolexes and Millennials At The Christie’s 2022 Uncommon Watches Public sale

Christie’s public sale titled ‘Uncommon Watches: Featuring The Kairos Series’ showcased a sequence of uncommon Rolexes, three Daytonas and recent Patek Philippe’s closed with a complete of CHF 23,840,700. The public sale took discipline on the Four Seasons Resort des Bergues in Geneva and was a hotspot for Rolex watches. 

The public sale location 16 recent world-files and moreover marked the entry of the millennials into the gaze public sale market. How was this carried out? With 51 p.c of the recent registrants belonging to the millennials, the ‘Uncommon Watches: Featuring The Kairos Series’ user inappropriate choices to the ever-rising hobby of a recent skills of gaze lovers who are now ready to enter the gaze market. The public sale moreover saw a solid global participation of registrants from 46 countries at some level of six continents. 

About the Uncommon Watches: Featuring The Kairos Series Public sale:

The finely curated Uncommon Watches public sale offered a sequence of essentially the most coveted timepieces by Rolex, Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet and more. The checklist moreover featured just a few of essentially the most fascinating and rarest examples of the prolonged-lasting Daytona chronograph with Paul Newman dials and many others. Other than the usuals, the Geneva sale moreover housed icons from hundreds of different producers treasure the prolonged-lasting Cartier Demolish London. 

Sale Highlights:

  • The Rolex Daytona Ref 6269 ‘Jack of Diamonds” was estimated at CHF CHF 1,100,000 nevertheless bought for CHF 1.614 million.
  • The Paul Newman Tropical Lemon Daytona Ref. 6264 was estimated at CHF 900,000 nevertheless bought for a tremendous CHF 1.254 million.
  • The Rolex Daytona ref. 6241 ‘Champagne Paul Newman dial’ the property of a extremely crucial non-public collector was estimated at CHF 700,000 nevertheless bought for CHF 1,071,000. 
  • The Rolex Oyster perpetual ‘turquoise blue’ dial 41mm was estimated at CHF 6,000 nevertheless bought for CHF 69,300.
  • The Rolex Daytona with inexperienced chrysoprase dial was estimated at CHF 50,000 nevertheless bought at CHF 201,600. 

“Rolex continues to reach recent heights of desirability! And doubtless moreover resulting from a pool of recent and younger bidders and investors from around the enviornment. 51% of recent bidders were millennials, exhibiting that the market continues to verbalize coronary heart’s contents to bidders who’ve never old to stepped into an public sale room to protect watches. 16 world files were broken, with Daytonas final the ‘Queens’ of the recreation. A explicit indicate was the success of the Rolex Daytona Trilogy, placing Geneva on the center of all issues Rolex. Cartier moreover confirmed a extremely solid desirability, with iconic devices treasure the Demolish reaching 819’000 CHF. The Christie’s gaze team in Geneva continues to boost the bar with a sale that’s 100% bought and is amazingly proud to make contributions to an distinctive recent yr that has most fascinating perfect begun!” acknowledged Rémi Guillemin, Head of Watches, Christie’s Geneva. 

Other Highlight:

  • The Patek Philippe “Cathedral” minute repeating perpetual calendar ref. 5074r-001 retailed by Tiffany & co. and roperty from the Kairos Series was estimated at CHF 330,000 nevertheless bought at CHF 957,600.
  • The Cartier London ‘Demolish’ 1990 was estimated at CHF 180,000 nevertheless bought at CHF 819,000 

For more files, talk over with the Christie’s net save of residing here. 

Image Courtesy: Christie’s

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