Pioneering Channel-swim Rolex makes £1.3 million at auction
This watch was one of the first big-name sports endorsements and it helped to make the Rolex Oyster a legendary watch. Find out more here.
2025-11-12
‘Tragic’ Titanic pocket watch has £1 million auction estimate
The stories of the Titanic are why we remember this appalling disaster. Isidor and Ida Straus told one of the most compelling and moving of those stories.
2025-10-22
Pioneer swimmer’s cross-Channel Rolex Oyster to sell at auction
Is this the most important wrist watch ever made? A sale in November will test where it sits in the value charts.
2025-10-08
Babe Ruth’s Yankees watch tipped for $3 million-plus sale
They’re calling it, “the most significant article of New York Yankees World Championship memorabilia that exists.” Babe Ruth’s 1923 New York Yankees World Championship Watch will be auctioned later this […]
2025-08-14
Brand new Rolex Daytona expected to make over £200,000
The Daytona is a legend. And this version, a special edition in yellow gold for the centenary of Le Mans was only made available to special Rolex clients.
2025-05-07
Two racer’s watches, two $1.4 million sales for McQueen’s Heuer and Mille’s Ferrari
Steve McQueen wore a Heur Monaco through the filming of Le Mans and one example has just sold for $1.4 million. Elsewhere a Richard Mille watch made for Ferrari has […]
2024-12-13
Rolex Cosmograph Daytona headlines single-owner HK watch auction
Rolex, F.P Journe, Patek Philippe, Piaget… all of the great brands are represented in a sale in Hong Kong that will test market sentiment in East Asia.
2024-09-04
Churchill gift pocket watch more than doubles estimate at auction
A pocket watch given to Winston Churchill by fellow Prime Minister Herbert Asquith has sold for well over double its estimate at auction. The 1905 18-carat gold pocket watch realised […]
2024-05-24
1st time in the sale room for legendary Patek Philippe
A 1978 watch that has never been sold at auction will be the star item at Philips November Geneva sale if estimates run true.
2023-10-11
7 Rolex watches star in Christie’s Sultan sale
Watches made for the Sultan of Oman that are among the rarest ever created were star lots in a May 13th sale by Christie’s in Geneva. His Majesty Sultan Qaboos […]
2023-05-18
Phillips to auction Patek Philippe watch owned by Last Emperor of China
A $1-million watch with heavy damage. There’s no mistake in that value: the watch is only the 8th of its kind known. And it’s categorically linked to one of the […]
