• Sylvester Stallone's watches, including ‘Holy Grail’ of his collection, to be auctioned

  And on June 5, the Hollywood star is putting up 11 watches from his personal collection for auction at Sotheby's in New York...

• 1968 Grand Seiko watch sold for over $90,000 on Yahoo online auction

  A 1968 Grand Seiko watch sold for approximately $90,321, or exactly 13,501,000 yen, on Yahoo online auction. It's hard to believe that anyone would be willing to pay that much for a dirty, old Japanese watch from an unknown seller offering poor quality photographs, and not a single shot of the movement. However, a collector who knows the history of Grand Seiko is willing to pay more than $90,000 for this watch...

• Gold pocket watch found on Titanic's richest passenger sells for record $1.46M

  The pocket watch that belonged to the richest passenger aboard the Titanic has sold at auction in England for $1.46 million, breaking the record for an item associated with the 1912 disaster...

• Ultra-rare Rolex watch sold for record $3.5M

  This watch, introduced in 1942, is one of 12 such models made in the early 1940s. According to the auction house, the watch was originally intended for aviation pilots, but found its niche in the Italian automotive world...

• Discontinued Rolex Daytona Le Mans now selling for $320,000

  Rolex has discontinued the $51,400 white gold Daytona Le Mans (126529LN). These watches currently sell for $320,000 on the used market...

• Vacheron Constantin unveils world’s most complex mechanical watch

  This one-off custom order, known as the Berkley Grand Complication, will be owned by billionaire insurance magnate and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of New York University W.R. Berkeley, an American. He also owns another unique model from Vacheron Constantin, the 57260, which features 57 complications...

• Rolex announces latest offerings at Watches & Wonders 2024 in Geneva

  Rolex has announced its latest offerings at Watches & Wonders 2024 in Geneva. A total of six models will be on display including the GMT-Master II, Day-Date, Perpetual 1908, Deepsea, Daytona, and Sky-Dweller in a variety of designs and sizes...

• Bulgari presents new watches, including Serpenti collection, in collaboration with architect Tadao Ando

  Bulgari has introduced new watch models. The lineup of four new models includes two stunning versions of the Octo Finissimo, the sleek and bold Octo Roma, and the eye-catching Serpenti collection, designed in collaboration with renowned Japanese architect Tadao Ando...

Patek Philippe's first self-winding wristwatch will be auctioned at Sotheby's in Hong Kong on Sunday. The first series Ref. The Patek 2526, a 36mm 18-karat gold watch with a white enamel dial, can go for between $384,000 and $770,000, thanks in part to its legendary provenance.

“Patek’s first automatic watch is a very important milestone for the brand,” Joey Luk, director and head of Sotheby’s Hong Kong watch department, told Robb Report. Patek Philippe presented the reference 2526 at the Basel Fair in Switzerland in the spring of 1953. The brand then “waited for a couple of months to see how the watch was received,” says Luk.

In the summer of 1953, the brand gave the watch to Joe Ben (J.B.) Champion, Jr., an American criminal defense lawyer in Texas whose collection of mid-century Patek Philippe watches has captivated modern collectors.

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