Elegant and iconic, wristwatches and pocket watches have become one of the primary asset class.
Such exponential growth in demand, has led the department to realise catalogues able to please a broad national and international audience. Foreign participation has exceeded expectations thanks to an incisive presence on online platforms. The department now aims to outline the next sessions through a more diversified research of items, among which prestigious brands as Rolex, Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Cartier, Piaget, Omega, Bulgari, IWC, Longinesand Zenith.
Last departments results confirm the liveliness of a sector that is attracting the interest of an increasingly large public of enthusiasts and the growing appeal for catalogues of few but highly selected examples, signed by prestigious brands such as: Cartier, Jaeger LeCoultre, Hublot, Zenith, Blancpain, IWC, Hamilton, Omega, Longines, Chopard and Vacheron & Constantin.
The Time of Elegance: Watches at Auction
More than seventy wristwatches and pocket watches will enliven the auction on June 3, 2024, at Palazzo Crivelli: true masterpieces of engineering combined with the elegance of jewelry.
Increasingly sought-after accessories, refined status symbols, and complex mechanical masterpieces represent the perfect fusion of aesthetic beauty and technical precision, as seen in the beautiful Vacheron & Constantin, Phidias (lot 1071, €7,000 - 9,000) and the equally elegant Audemars Piguet, Royal Oak 'Mini Jumbo' (lot 1072, €13,000 - 16,000), both from the early '90s.
Elevated to style icons, sometimes because they became famous through celebrities or special editions, the Rolex Day-Date from '59 bears the signature Serpico y Laino (lot 1070, €10,000 – 15,000), a renowned jewelry store in Caracas (Venezuela) founded in the 1930s by two Italian immigrants, Leopoldo Serpico and Vicente Laino, which soon became a worldwide reference in the field of high-quality craftsmanship.
