Features
Understanding The F.P. Journe Vagabondage Collection
A guide to F.P. Journe's most unusual collection of timepieces.
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In-Depth: A Review of Vintage Rolex Submariners with 'Explorer' Dials
The Platonic ideal of a vintage Rolex sport watch.
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Exploring the History of A. Cairelli, Chronograph Supplier to the Mid-Century Italian Air Force
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Specialists' Picks: The Hong Kong Watch Auction: XVIII
Our favorite watches from our second live watch auction of the year.
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Our Favorite Pocket Watches Featured In The Hong Kong Watch Auction: XVIII
Reject modernity, embrace the pocket watch.
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Understanding Different Types Of Enamel Dials
Cloisonné. Champlevé. Paillonné. Grand feu. Miniature painting. What do all these terms have in common?
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Phillips Perpetual
Past Auctions
The Geneva Watch Auction: XIX featuring the Guido Mondani Collection
11 May 2024 - 12 May 2024 • Geneva
Phillips Watches Online Auction: The Hong Kong Sessions, Spring 2024
19 March 2024 - 26 March 2024 • Hong Kong
Phillips Watches Online Auction: The Geneva Sessions Spring 2024
5 March 2024 - 12 March 2024 • Geneva
The New York Watch Auction: NINE
9 December 2023 - 10 December 2023 • New York
The Hong Kong Watch Auction: XVII
24 November 2023 - 25 November 2023 • Hong Kong
The Geneva Watch Auction: XVIII
3 November 2023 - 4 November 2023 • Geneva
Videos
News and Results
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17 May 2024
Phillips’ Record-Breaking Spring Season of Watches and Jewels Auctions in Geneva Realises a Combined Total of CHF 60 Million / $66.2 Million
Read MoreThe Geneva Watch Auction: XIX Achieved the Highest Watch Auction Total in the Region Across All Auction Houses and The Geneva Jewels Auction: TWO Sold the Highest Value Lot of the Week
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13 May 2024
Phillips Unveils the Full Catalogue for The New York Watch Auction: X, Featuring an Extraordinary Selection of Wristwatches, Pocket Watches, and Clocks
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12 May 2024
Phillips in Association with Bacs & Russo Achieves Market-Leading CHF 35.9 Million Result for The Geneva Watch Auction: XIX Featuring the Guido Mondani Collection
Read MoreWith an Average CHF 133,700 Price per Lot
Star Lot of the Auction, the Patek Philippe Ref. 2523/1 Two-Crowned Worldtimer in Yellow Gold “Ore del Mondo Doppia”, Sells for CHF 1.7 Million
Extremely Rare Ref. 6241 “John Player Special” 14k Yellow Gold Sells for CHF 1.3 Million
The Top Ten Lots Totalled CHF 10.2 million, with Five Watches Selling Above CHF 1 Million
Watches Department
Phillips in Association with Bacs & Russo is the watch department at Phillips auction house, dedicated exclusively to the world's finest collectors' watches. Launched in November 2014 by Aurel Bacs and his partner, Livia Russo, the department was established in response to the ever-increasing need for today's collectors to easily access scholarship, guidance and quality across the board. The team of specialists at Phillips Watches is dedicated to an uncompromised approach to quality, transparency and client service. With multiple world records, Phillips has become the undisputed worldwide market leader, and in 2019, the auction house opened Phillips PERPETUAL, a private treaty program with physical and digital storefronts that offers a highly curated selection of watches sold at fixed prices. In its first year PERPETUAL has achieved more than £5M in sales.
Notable results include :
1. Rolex reference 6239, Paul Newman's "Paul Newman" Rolex Daytona (US $17,752,500) – WINNING ICONS, in New York – 26 October 2017. Highest result ever achieved for a Rolex wristwatch.
2. Patek Philippe, Reference 1518 in stainless steel (11,002,000 CHF) – The Geneva Watch Auction FOUR – 12 November 2016. Highest result ever achieved for a Patek Phillipe wristwatch at auction.
3. Roger Smith, Pocket Watch No. 2 (4,900,000 USD) - The New York Watch Auction : EIGHT – 10 & 11 June. Highest result ever ahcieved by a British made watch.
4. Rolex "Bao Dai" reference 6062 (5,066,000 CHF) – The Geneva Watch Auction: FIVE – 14 May 2017.
5. Patek Philippe ref. 2523 in pink gold (3,722,000 CHF) – The Geneva Watch Auction: XII – Nov 6-7 2020. Highest result ever achieved for a watch sold to an online bidder
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