Seaugural’s most important auction of the Watcheral at the auction in the grief of the icon on December 8 was one of the books. The sale, which includes a period piece from the Robert M. Olmsted Follication Collection, reached $42.8 million, more than doubling its high estimate and establishing the highest price ever created at an auction. Among the many funds was the “Grosse Pièce,” the most complicated pocket watch of Audemars Pigeet with $ 7.7 million for the most important price sold at auction and the top four found for a Sotheby’s watch. The previous record for Audemars Pigeet Watch was $5.2 million for the Black Panther “Watch; The next highest price was for Gerald Gentant’s “royal man”, which Sotheby sold in 2022 for $2.1 million.
“The record-breaking result achieved by the Audemars ‘Pièce’ is astonishing,” Daryn Schnipper, chairman of Stheby de Sherby, Chairman of the International Watch, said in a statement. “It stands as a powerful reminder of the importance of this collection and the extraordinary heights of importance that horology can reach.”
The value of the “Grosse Pièce” is not only in its renewal but in the incredible evolution of the new elements it incorporates. Commissioned in 1914 by Smith & Sons of London for an American client and completed in 1921 after six years of work for Audemars Piguet Dovitage as a astronomical clock showing 18 stars showing constellations showing 18 stars showing constellations showing 18 stars showing 18 stars showing constellations showing 18 stars showing constellations showing stars 18. It is the only Audemars Audemars Pocket Watch from this era to feature a tourbillon, and pairing that approach with a weather chart and additional complications sets it up as an unparalleled achievement in Horlogerie history.
With the watch, the buyer will receive an album compiled by the former director of the Mussee Atelier Audemeat, records of the work book, and a copy of two documents referring to the Jeweling experiment, one from 1915 and Signed by Ami Meilan.
The “Grosse Pièce” is sold alongside vintage, modern and independent watches, including the double minute Patek John Movy million. The result follows the record sale of the FRANCIS Ford Coppola FFC FFC Prototype, which fetched $10.75 million earlier this week at Phillips’ $43.5 million New York auction.
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