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Tweet In the Pantheon of Heuer racing gods, we are accustomed to seeing Mario Andretti, Steve McQueen Jochen Rindt and Jo Siffert at the top of the roster. Yes, if there were a Mount Rushmore of the Heuer heroes, we could expect to see these four faces. Indeed, it is fitting that collectors refer to four Read more ;raquo Tweet On November 11, 2017, in Geneva, Switzerland, Phillips auction house will offer for sale 42 vintage Heuer chronographs, assembled as “The Crosthwaite & Gavin Collection”. Almost all these watches span the period from the early 1960s through the mid 1970s, the period when Jack Heuer was at the helm, as the fourth generation leader of Read more ;raquo Tweet On June 21, 2017, Christie’s will conduct a sale of “Rare Watches and American Icons”, in New York City. There are 250 lots in the sale. You can find the online catalog HERE or the eCatalog flipbook HERE. There are 34 lots of Heuer chronographs and stopwatches in the sale, and this posting will Read more ;raquo Tweet November and December are always busy months for watch auctions, and in Fall 2016 the vintage Heuers were well represented in auctions conduced by Phillips, Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Watches of Knightsbridge. In this posting, we show the 45 Heuers that were offered in these auctions, together with their “final prices” (comprised of the hammer price Read more ;raquo TweetPhillips, The Geneva Watch Auction FOUR, November 12 and 13, 2016 On November 12 and 13, 2016, Phillips held an auction of 196 watches, divided into two sessions. The first session, on November 12, included these four Heuer chronographs.
Final prices shown below include the hammer price plus a 25% buyer’s premium; exchange Read more ;raquo Auction Watch -- Artcurial Selling 40 Vintage Heuers, July 18, 2016 (The Good, The Bad and The Ugly)Tweet The vintage Heuers have been hot lately, so the dynamics of supply and demand tell us that with the recent strong increases in prices, we are likely to see more vintage Heuer chronographs coming into the market. In April and May 2016, we saw Christie’s, Sotheby’s, Phillips and three other auction houses sell over 75 Read more ;raquo Tweet It’s the spring auction season in the watch world, with auctions being held by Antiquorum (April 21, 2016; New York City); Phillips (May 14, 2016; Geneva); Kaplans (May 14, 2016; Stockholm); Sotheby’s (May 14, 2016; Geneva); Christie’s (May 16, 2016; Geneva); and Auctionata (May 18, 2016; Berlin). Among the hundreds of watches being sold in Read more ;raquo Tweet Once upon a time, there was a brilliant architect, who designed residences and had also planned and built many successful communities. Many years ago, he began work on what would be his most ambitious project, a futuristic community of over 300 houses, apartments and townhouses, that would also include parks, shops and other facilities for Read more ;raquo Tweet Today, we saw two “live” auctions of interesting vintage Heuer chronographs, a black PVD-coated Heuer Monaco, Reference 74033, and an Abercrombie & Fitch Seafarer, Reference 2443. In this posting, we’ll take a quick look at these two watches and the results of the sales. We will also take a look at a Heuer Carrera, Reference Read more ;raquo Tweet If you are reading this, then you probably already know the basics. The Patek Philippe Henry Graves Supercomplication watch is the most complicated watch ever produced by humans (without the aid of computers) and holds the record as the most expensive watch ever sold at auction, achieving a “hammer price” of $10 million at a Read more ;raquo Tweet The Reader’s Guide to the Upcoming Patek Philippe Auctions Over the next eight days, we will witness two historic auctions, in Geneva, Switzerland, that will offer for sale the most legendary Patek Philippe watches that our generation is likely to see under one (or two roofs). On Sunday, November 9, 2014, Christie’s will celebrate the Read more ;raquo Tweet Last summer, I became a contributor to “Longitude“, Christie’s blog about watches. One year later, it’s interesting to compile the postings about vintage Heuers that have appeared on Longitude. The following provides an overview of these postings, most of which were written by Meehna Goldsmith, the Editor of Longitude, although I am happy to have Read more ;raquo Tweet As described in our first posting covering the McQueen-worn Monacos, I am aware of four Heuer Monacos said to have been “worn by McQueen” during the production of the movie Le Mans, as follows: worn by McQueen during the filming of the movie, Le Mans; sold by the property master in the early 2000s; now Read more ;raquo Tweet I am aware of four Heuer Monacos said to have been “worn by McQueen”, as follows: worn by McQueen during the filming of the movie, Le Mans; sold by the property master in the early 2000s; now in the TAG Heuer Museum, in Switzerland. worn by McQueen during the still photography / promotional shots for Read more ;raquo Tweet If you have ever been mad at yourself for selling a watch at a price that turned out to be a shade too low, consider the case of Morry Barmak, owner of “Collector Studio”, a gallery of motorsports art and memorabilia located in Toronto, Canada. Morry recently had the good fortune of selling Steve McQueen’s Read more ;raquo Tweet The following story came to me from a reader a few minutes ago, and somehow it seems relevant to live auctions, rare watches and those who buy such watches at such auctions: Once upon a time, the King was hunting, and became lost in the woods. He wandered around for several hours, could not find Read more ;raquo |