Features
Photo Essay: Watches and Tennis in Gstaad with Phillips Perpetual
To celebrate the reopening of our renovated Gstaad boutique, we hit the Gstaad Palace clay courts with a selection of watches available through Phillips Perpetual.
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Interview: Tennis Player Matthew Ebden on Gold Medals, Grand Slams, and His Love of Watches
In honour of Wimbledon starting this week, we recently sat down with the Australian doubles specialist, Olympic gold medalist, and Grand Slam champion to learn more about his journey in the watch world.
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Perpetual Picks: Patek Philippe’s Grande and Petite Sonnerie Ref. 6301P
With three gongs, deadbeat seconds, and a minute repeater, the 6301P blends old-world artistry and modern precision in Patek Philippe’s purest chiming watch.
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Perpetual Picks: All About the Rolex Day-Date
Three Rolex Day-Dates, three ways to wear the crown.
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Numbers to Know: The Phillips Watches Spring 2025 Auction Season
From Geneva to New York, Phillips Watches set the pace this auction season, achieving $113.8 million with a 99% sell-through rate.
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Interview: A Conversation With David Seyffer, IWC’s Museum Curator
David Seyffer has spent nearly two decades preserving IWC’s history. He’s also helping define its next chapter.
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Phillips Perpetual
Past Auctions
The New York Watch Auction: XII
7 June 2025 - 8 June 2025 • New York
The Hong Kong Watch Auction: XX
23 May 2025 - 25 May 2025 • Hong Kong
The Geneva Watch Auction: XXI
10 May 2025 - 11 May 2025 • Geneva
Phillips Watches Online: The New York Sessions Featuring the 1979 Collection, Spring 2025
1 April 2025 - 8 April 2025 • New York
Phillips Watches Online Auction: The Hong Kong Sessions, Spring 2025
19 March 2025 - 26 March 2025 • Hong Kong
Phillips Watches Online Auction: The Geneva Sessions Spring 2025
5 March 2025 - 12 March 2025 • Geneva
Videos
Follow the Rainbow
This extraordinary piece is more than just a ‘Rainbow’ Daytona, it’s the first one Rolex made. Ever.
News and Results
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8 June 2025
“WHITE GLOVE” SALE MARKS FOUR AND A HALF YEARS OF 100%-SOLD LIVE WATCH AUCTIONS FOR PHILLIPS NEW YORK, SHOWCASING THE ENDURING STRENGTH OF THE MARKET
Read MoreThe New York Watch Auction: XII Realizes $25 Million
Patek Philippe Leads the Sale with the Ref. 1518 Achieving $1.45 Million and the Ref. 570 Realizing Over $1 Million
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25 May 2025
PHILLIPS IN ASSOCIATION WITH BACS & RUSSO REALISE OVER HK$212 MILLION/ US$27 MILLION FOR THE HONG KONG WATCH AUCTION: XX, UP 30% FROM THE PREVIOUS YEAR
Read MoreThe Hong Kong Watch Auction: XX, 23-25 May 2025
TOTAL: HK$212,528,630/ US$27,139,906
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20 May 2025
PHILLIPS TO OFFER THE ROLEX DAYTONA OF FORMULA ONE TRAILBLAZER JEAN-PIERRE JABOUILLE IN THE NEW YORK WATCH AUCTION: XII
Read More“Big Red” Daytona Ref. 6265 with Engraving "Die To Drive" Commemorates the Champion Driver's Historic French Grand Prix Victory of 1979, With the Timepiece Remaining in the Jabouille Family Collection for Nearly Five Decades
Watches Department
Phillips in Association with Bacs & Russo is the watch department at Phillips auction house, dedicated exclusively to the world's finest collectors' watches. Launched in November 2014 by Aurel Bacs and his partner, Livia Russo, the department was established in response to the ever-increasing need for today's collectors to easily access scholarship, guidance and quality across the board. The team of specialists at Phillips Watches is dedicated to an uncompromised approach to quality, transparency and client service. With multiple world records, Phillips has become the undisputed worldwide market leader, and in 2019, the auction house opened Phillips PERPETUAL, a private treaty program with physical and digital storefronts that offers a highly curated selection of watches sold at fixed prices. In its first year PERPETUAL has achieved more than £5M in sales.
Notable results include :
1. Rolex reference 6239, Paul Newman's "Paul Newman" Rolex Daytona (US $17,752,500) – WINNING ICONS, in New York – 26 October 2017. Highest result ever achieved for a Rolex wristwatch.
2. Patek Philippe, Reference 1518 in stainless steel (11,002,000 CHF) – The Geneva Watch Auction FOUR – 12 November 2016. Highest result ever achieved for a Patek Phillipe wristwatch at auction.
3. Roger Smith, Pocket Watch No. 2 (4,900,000 USD) - The New York Watch Auction : EIGHT – 10 & 11 June. Highest result ever ahcieved by a British made watch.
4. Rolex "Bao Dai" reference 6062 (5,066,000 CHF) – The Geneva Watch Auction: FIVE – 14 May 2017.
5. Patek Philippe ref. 2523 in pink gold (3,722,000 CHF) – The Geneva Watch Auction: XII – Nov 6-7 2020. Highest result ever achieved for a watch sold to an online bidder
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