Breaking Information: 4 Of Jean-Claude Biver’s Patek Philippe Watches Fetch $eight.76 Million At Phillips’ Geneva Public sale

And, lastly, we now have the final lot of this weekend’s sale: the platinum ref. 1579 chronograph with spider lugs. As lot 214 it pulled in a remaining worth of $2.05 million (CHF 1.94 million). This watch is sort of an ideal storm: It is a classic Patek chronograph, it is a distinctive watch (solely three had been made, all with completely different dials), it is platinum, it is in nice, trustworthy situation, and it comes from the gathering of Mr. Biver. You may’t actually ask for far more than that. To consider what was occurring on the planet in 1946, within the wake of World Conflict II, and to assume that Patek thought to make this completely indulgent, superlative watch, is simply loopy. With that in thoughts, a $2.05 million result’s clearly nothing to scoff at, however it’s price noting that the final time a platinum 1579 bought publicly, at Christie’s in 2012, it commanded CHF 1,539,000. The final time this 1579 bought, at Christie’s in 2011, it bought for CHF 1,987,000. So, that is technically a rise in worth, although I used to be anticipating the bidding to climb a bit of increased.