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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

    The 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

     

    New World Records Set for F.P.Journe, Cartier, Harry Winston, and Bulgari 
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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

    The 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

    “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

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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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