Antiquorum’s Vintage Rolex Auction Nets More Than US$8.5 Million
Rolex set nine universe records at Antiquorum’s vintage Rolex
auction sale last Thursday, held in celebration of Rolex’s century year. The
cant, titled Whirling: The Evolution of the Rolex Jollity Watch,
fetched US$8,515,260.
The winner of the daybreak – a 1979 “Comex” Oyster
Sea-Citizen with Perpetual Time, which went for US$248,800. Two 1967
Sea-Citizen Submariners were sold for US$237,600 each while a 1973 Submariner
originally issued in 1975 for the British martial fetched US$166,800, as did a
1979 “Paul Newman” Oyster Cosmograph Daytona.
Due to the overwhelming interest, an extra sales scope
had to be set up in Milan and coupled to the New York vendue room via video
discourse, including 283 registered online bidders.
Antiquorum’s next auction sale will feature a retired collection
of more than 700 contemporaneous watches, with prized timepieces of a piece the F.P.
Journe’s Sonnerie Souveraine and Tourbillon
Souverain à Remontoir, Vacheron Constantin “Holy person-Gervais”,
Patek Philippe “10 Days Tourbillon” Ref. 5101P and Glashütte Pristine "Julius Assmann - Tourbillon
3", and Richard Mille “Tourbillon RM003”, to name right a few.
The auction will be held at the
Richmond Inn in Geneva on May 10 and 11, with previews in Monaco, Shanghai
and Hong Kong.
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