Phillips Sold Every Single Watch It’s Put up for Auction Over the Past Two Years

It's a first for any auction house in history.

contributed to the success of the auction. Leading the pack—and more than quadrupling its estimate—was an example of F. P. Journe’s Tourbillon Souverain in platinum with a rose-gold dial. This version is one of only six known to have been produced with such a dial; expected to fetch a minimum of $300,000, the timepiece was purchased for a whooping $1.24 million, tying the previous world record sale of the model.

Another standout includes a pièce unique from Grand Seiko. The Kodo Constant Force Tourbillon marked the brand’s very first mechanical complication that combines a tourbillon and a constant-force mechanism as one unit on a single axis—a first in watchmaking history. The model went on to sell for $478,800, setting a world record for any Grand Seiko timepiece sold at auction.

notched an estimate of only $40,000 to 80,000 but ultimately sold for more than 10 times that, bringing in $403,200 to benefit the Swiss Institute.

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