Story | Connie Li Photography | Christie’s
Online bidders from 48 countries flocked to Christie’s recent Hong Kong-based Top Of The Time sale, culminating in a Patek Philippe Sky Moon Tourbillon selling for US$5,815,300, making it the most expensive watch ever sold at auction online.
The key lots at the US$ 8.4m auction also included a Patek Philippe Perpetual Calendar Minute Repeater, a Gerald Genta Perpetual Calendar Minute Repeater, an Andersen Genève Minute Repeater and a Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tourbillon.
“The Top of the Time demonstrates the power of Christie’s online sale platform,” said Alexandre Bigler, vice-president and head of watches for Christie’s Asia Pacific division. “There continues to be an extremely vibrant market for watches around the world, evidenced through the avid global bidding this sale witnessed.”
Patek Philippe
Sky Moon Tourbillon
Grand Complications Sky Moon Tourbillon, with a blue hand-made enamel dial and white gold handcarved case, features 12 special functions within its mechanical movement, including minute repeater, tourbillon, perpetual calendar, retrograde date, moonphase, leap-year indicator, sidereal time and star charts.
Model: 6002G-001
Price realized: US$5,815,300
Patek Philippe
Minute Repeater Perpetual Calendar Monopusher Chrono
Grand Complications, with minute repeating, instantaneous perpetual calendar, single-button chronograph, moon phases, leap year and day/night indication.
Model: 5208P-001
Price realized: US$999,541
Gerald Genta
Platinum Skeletonised Minute Repeating Perpetual Calendar with Bracelet
Platinum skeletonized, minute-repeating and perpetual calendar wristwatch with leap-year indicator and moon phases.
Model: 6002G-001
Price realized: US$104,791 (2½ times estimated)
Andersen Genève
Minute Repeater Perpetual Calendar
A unique 18-karat white and pink gold wristwatch with a JeanPierre Hagmann case, a 21-karat blue gold dial, tapisserie decorated, art deco hands, historic LeCoultre minute repeater movement from
the 1920s, perpetual calendar and leap-year indicator, inside 6 o’clock hour index.
Model: 6002G-001
Price realized: US$45,141 (4½ times estimated).
Jaeger Le-Coultre
Reverso Tourbillon
18k pink gold wristwatch, with reverso tourbillon and power reserve.
Limited to 500 Pieces.
Price realized: US$45,141.
