The Luxury Sales

3 Important Watches That Embody The Current Collecting Trend

Geneva | 10 November 2024

Showcasing a varied sense of taste in design which unsurprisingly has fallen in step with current collecting trends, leaning toward precious metal bracelet pieces, stone dials and unusual displays and functions.

This variety takes a keen and adaptive interest in the telling of time, boasting complications from historical pieces to perpetual calendars, wandering hours to rattrapante chronographs and early quartz technology from Hewlett Packard to Patek Philippe.

The collection has been predominantly purchased from retail and the following watches have been cherished over the past 50 years and demonstrate the aesthetic inclinations of a discerning and open-minded collector.

The collection features as part of the Important Watches Part I sale taking place at Sotheby's Geneva on 10 November.

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