[Watch House Watch Miscellaneous] was brushed by the Patek Philippe 96 auctioned by Fuyis Puyi a few days ago, and the final transaction price of the watch was 40 million Hong Kong dollars, including a commission of 48.85 million Hong Kong dollars, about 44.13 million yuan, which is indeed not to live up to the auction house, and the overwhelming publicity in the early stage. But in fact, in the past six months, in addition to Puyi, a rare PP, other watches are also quite interesting, today I will briefly introduce it to you.
Puyi wore the Patek Philippe Model 96 Quantieme Lune and the red fan with his own inscription and poem
Patek Philippe 96 Quantieme Lune
Estimated price – HK$25,000,000
The transaction price was HK$48,850,000, or about RMB44.13 million
Let's take a look at the just-concluded Patek Philippe session. In mid-March, Fullers moved its new Asia headquarters to a new location in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District. At the opening ceremony, several items belonging to Aisin Gioro Puyi were specially exhibited, including a paper fan that personally wrote and wrote poems, a daily miscellaneous notebook from the period of imprisonment in the Soviet Union, an ink painting by Wanrong's younger brother, and a leather cover of the Analects, and this Patek Philippe 96 full calendar lunar phase table.
At that time, Fuyis said that they would make a global tour of these objects first, and then auction them after that. In fact, I feel that in a sense, Fuyis wants to use Puyi to shoot these things to relocate the Asian headquarters to a new location in Hong Kong.
And Puyi's watch, not only domestic attention is high, foreign countries are also quite concerned, after all, for several factors that directly affect the auction value of watches, this watch directly accounts for the two most important, first of all, this watch is telling the story, that is, the background history, pull enough.
First of all, let's give you a brief look, the points that everyone is more concerned about, the origin of the table and the problem of quality.
1. According to the official archives of Patek Philippe, this watch is first of all a large inventory table, which was completed in 1929 and sold in 1937, inferring that the reason why it could not be sold was because of the Great Depression and the poor economic environment at that time.
2. Fuyis hypothesized that how this watch came to Puyi was sold to the French luxury store Guillermin in 1937, and then purchased by Sennet Frères, a distributor specializing in watches and jewelry, and this distributor also had a relative Levy Frères, who also did this, and was later taken over by Sennet Frères and opened stores in Shanghai and Tianjin. It is recorded that Puyi did live in Tianjin for seven years from 1925 to 1932, but this watch has not yet been sold, or it may be that when he was consuming in Tianjin, he became familiar with the store, and then bought it, it must be said that it can be said and can be said.
Pu Yi's red fan with an inscription of a poem sold for 609,600 Hong Kong dollars
The small courtyard is not sunny at night, and the bright moon shines through the south window.
Sitting in front of the lamp, Qingyi is long.
August 19, 1946, Tokyo
Presented to Comrade Be'er Mian Kov
Love Shin Kyaw Luo Puyi
3. In 1945, Pu Yi was captured while fleeing, imprisoned in the Soviet Union as a war criminal, and spent the next five years interned in an internment center, forming a friendship with Georgy Permyakov, a Soviet official who served as his Russian interpreter, whom Pu Yi called Beermikov. When he was finally extradited to China, according to the memoirs of Puyi's nephew Yu Zhao, the Patek Philippe watch that Puyi had worn was given to a Soviet translator.
According to the information given by Fuyisi to the foreign media SJX, the auction house did a spectrometer analysis, in fact, the plate is made of 92.4% silver and 6.94% copper
4. And the bad appearance of the dial, said that it was because Puyi was curious about whether the plate was golden, so he let the personal attendant Li Guoxiong remove the watch, scraped it, hung it halfway to see that it was not gold, did not let it continue to be scraped, and the disk became this yin and yang shape.
Photo taken by the journalist couple during an interview in 2001
Fuyis later also said that in order to verify whether this watch was Puyi's, it took three years to specifically verify and scientifically identify it through the ArtDiscovery laboratory in London. He also found a couple of journalists who had interviewed Be'erkofu and confirmed that the items were indeed his. Finally, Mr. Wang Wenfeng, who was a researcher at the Puppet Manchu Palace Museum, was brought in, and told him that he learned from a conversation with Li Guoxiong that the dial was scraped.
Judging from the movement disassembly diagram given by Fuyis, this watch has not been written for a long time, and SJX also mentioned this, and the "VEN", "JEU" and "MAI" on the two wheels are obviously blackened.
But there are also many cousins who don't believe the source of this watch, including me who also have doubts about this watch, the story sounds quite smooth, but I have not found evidence of the photo worn by Puyi. But it doesn't matter if you believe it or not, I think for everyone, it's all about watching it.
It can be compared with the good quality
However, this watch itself is also quite scarce, many cousins mentioned, even if this watch is not Puyi's, but Patek Philippe looks like 96, plus the full calendar moon phase function, is absolutely rare enough, can be regarded as a work of great significance to the brand, PP also has to be in the market, spend a high price to buy back the kind, after all, it has a total of few pieces. This kind of complex watch with day, calendar, month, moon phase, 30 mm platinum, plus Puyi, only 8 pieces have been found in records, although Puyi's piece is a little worse, but it is still a German disk, counting it in the same configuration, it is even rarer.
The most expensive magnetic type
Estimate—500,000 - 1,000,000 Swiss francs
The sale price was CHF 2,238,000, which is approximately RMB 17.33 million
This year, Rolex stopped the production of the grid type 116400GV, that is, green glass, and the information of the grid type can no longer be found on the official website, but the performance of the grid magnet in the auction market is quite unexpected. A while ago, a piece of the original grid magnet was stunned to get a sky-high price of 17.33 million yuan.
Why is grid magnetic photography so expensive? At present, many people's analysis of the transaction price of this lot is that first of all, it is the original generation 6541, and cousins know that the grid magnetic type born for anti-magnetism is a total of three generations. 6541 is the original generation, continuing the design style of the submariner, lightning needle honeycomb disc bezel are all characteristics, while the second generation 1019 removes the rotating bezel, lightning needle, check disc surface, walk Rolex modern style, more concise and straightforward. The third generation of 116400 was reintroduced by Rolex in 2007 after many years, and the design mainly returned to the lightning needle design, and distinguished GV green glass from ordinary glass (ordinary glass was discontinued first).
And Fuyisi on the auction, in addition to the age is the first generation, there is also a factor that says that it is new and the accessories are complete. We look at the accessories listed by Fuyis, from Rolex chronometer certificates, insurance cards, additional chronometer certificates, hang tags and watch boxes, there should be all, for the watch of 60 years ago, it was a big set. Fuyis said that this is the first generation of Gemagnet they have seen the most complete accessories.
The watch photo, the honeycomb disc on the plate is not only not dirty, the hour mark that loves to be problematic, but also maintains a very good off-white effect, not the kind of yellow to not good antique watch that everyone sees.
But I personally feel that even if the color is good, it seems that it should not be the price of 17.33 million, so I look at the current discussion of cousins about this, all wondering if there is a factor to enter the market, or is the new product of Gemagnet not far away, a wave of speculation? If there is a new lattice magnet, I am still looking forward to whether I can get a new lattice magnet of titanium.
CEO's Platinum Yacht
Estimate—€1,000,000 – €2,000,000
The sale price — 2,316,800 euros, about 17.6 million yuan
At the end of April, Monaco Legend Group, a Monaco auction house, sold a platinum watch that belonged exclusively to former Rolex CEO Patrick Heinigg. Together, the Heinigs and sons created an era that belonged to Rolex, and Patrick's greatest achievement during his tenure was the acquisition of spare parts suppliers and turning them into Rolex's own factories.
Former Rolex CEO Patrick Heiniger
We look at this yacht famous platinum watch, the model official printed on the back of the watch is 16620, the auction house gives the information is 16620PT, quite strange, representing the 0 of stainless steel followed by PT. If you have to find a model specification to set, I think it is the most similar to 16622. So how was this watch born? In the 90s, the 10 millionth chronometer-certified movement was made on Rolex's production line, and in order to commemorate this achievement, Patrick Heinig specially asked the watchmaking department to make the movement a special yacht.
The reason why I chose Yacht Master is precisely because this series is a new watch launched by Patrick Heinig during his tenure, which is made of platinum, and also because the CEO likes platinum, he himself always wears a platinum day calendar, and he also made 5 special platinum Daytona.
In terms of watch details, in addition to the dial scale using diamond and sapphire indexes, there is also the word "DIX MILLIONIEME CHRONOMETER" at 6 o'clock on the disk, Dix stands for 10 in French, and the word translates to 10 1 million chronometer certification.
Although it is a secret bottom, Rolex made a special oscillating weight, which is also engraved with the words "10,000,000 ème CHRONOMETRE" 10 million chronometre certification.
Black Golden Lotus John Player Special plate
Estimate—600,000 - 1,200,000 Swiss francs
The sale price was CHF 2,238,000, which is about RMB 17.38 million
Sotheby's also photographed a Rolex number 6241 Daytona, although in a broad sense, cousins think that the sieve in the plate can be called Paul Newman plate, but this antique Kindy, with a John Player Special nickname, is louder than Paul Newman,
This 6241 we see, in addition to the iconic square-shaped hour markers and crosshairs of the Exotic dial, has always been called the John Player Special because of the combination of gold and black disk, which is similar to the black gold lotus sponsored by the tobacconist John Player Special in the 70s, and the Lotus F1 team car livery is named.
Ref.6241 Daytona JPS disc is expensive, but also two reasons, the first is that the 6241 bezel is a resin ring, although in those years, I felt that the resin texture was better, but it was indeed more difficult to preserve than the metal ring, so good quality is rare. Sotheby's also said that the one they auctioned was the best they had ever seen, and the original owner also said that in the 50 years since buying the watch, he had never really worn it (just listen to it).
Between 1966 and 1969, Rolex launched only about 3,000 pieces, of which only 300 were gold, and very few were on the JPS plate. Christie's once counted the number of John Player Specials, which have appeared at auction in the past 20 years, almost 10, which is quite rare.
So this piece is in good condition, Ref.6241 Daytona JPS disk, can refresh the transaction record, I am not surprised.
Beaver prototype table
The sale price was CHF 1,270,000, which is about RMB 9.9 million
How powerful Jean-Claude Beaver is, my cousins know better than me that the success of Omega, Blancpain, and Hublot is inseparable from him. This year, his eponymous brand BIVER, created with his son, launched its first creation, the Beaver Gillenspiel Minute Repeater Tourbillon. For the discussion of this watch, it is currently in such a mixed situation, but I have to admire that Beaver's marketing methods, he chose to send the prototype watch to Fuyis auction, the reputation is to find a good owner for the watch, in fact, it gives people the feeling that they don't want to sell it normally, first have to auction, and make a name for themselves, which is not sold at a price of 1.27 million Swiss francs, equivalent to about 9.9 million yuan.
I am definitely not the only one who feels that the transaction price of more than one million Swiss francs does not have the possibility of self-directing and self-acting, or that the buyer has sent a personal favor. But what I'm going to say is not this, I think the three questions of this table are quite good.
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The carillon minute is around 1:34
Its three-question timbre, although I flipped through the three-question video on the Internet, only such a point in the official demonstration, but it can be heard, Beaver mainly reduced the three-question timbre to a carillon, used for the crisp effect of percussion instruments in Western orchestras, and the rhythm also has characteristics, it is a block three-hammer three-questioner, as can be seen from the back penetration, one side of the tone hammer, is divided into a large and a small, in order to be able to carry out the "ding-dong" chime sound effect in the engraving stage.
Jiao Dayu with François-Paul Journe and Franck Muller
Yuigo is content
Estimate—HK$80,000-160,000The transaction price was HK$635,000, about RMB 570,000
A collection of famous watches from Fuyis: Hong Kong XVI, and also took a piece of Mr. Jiao Dayu's contentment. As an international independent watchmaker, Jiao Dayu produced the first tourbillon watch belonging to Asia in 1991, and then was invited to join the Swiss Independent Watchmaking Association AHCI in 92. During his lifetime, Mr. Jiao Dayu was committed to promoting Chinese watchmaking to the world, and from his works, you can see that there are a lot of traditional elements.
This 22nd piece of his work, launched by Mr. Jiao Dayu in 2003, is inspired by the idiom of contentment, which first appeared on ancient coins of the Han Dynasty to represent the contented person Changle. The movement is derived from the ETA2824 variation, with an escapement placed directly on the upper part of the disc and designed with two gold-tone balance arms.
The red time dial below, designed in the shape of a gratification to spend money, is superimposed on a golden ingot, and the phrases "millennium jubilee" and "auspicious" are also displayed on both sides.
The reason why I think this national watch is good is because it is not only interesting in conception, full of traditional elements, but also with meaning. In the formal expression of traditional Chinese elements, the national watch should actually be like this, it is very important to have its own design, not the same superposition of traditional elements, it is called Chinese style, Mr. Jiao Dayu's works, in today's view is still worth many national watches to learn.
HK$40 million excluding commission drop weight
Summary: In the past two days, I see that my cousins are still discussing Puyi's piece of 96 that sold 48.85 million Hong Kong dollars, and many cousins feel that it has not reached expectations, the price should be more expensive, but I think that it is quite a lot more than expected, after all, this watch really has nothing to say, and it is not easy to shelve who scratches it, plus many people still have doubts about this background and historical story, there is no real evidence, from 30 million to 40 million directly up, which is already very good.
The unique "venom version" Spider-Man auctioned by Audemars Piguet sold for about 43 million yuan
With great power comes great responsibility
For watch auctions, the current mainstream can go up the price, nothing more than rare antique watches, there is scarcity, or who has worn it, this kind of story, as well as the top complexity of each brand, as well as independent watchmaking. In the final analysis, auction is also an important marketing tool in the field of watches and clocks, the more expensive the auction, the more beneficial the brand value can indeed get. However, personally, I just think that the auction is interesting, and I don't think that the auction now can play any reference value for everyone's actual purchase of watches, and I can see a lot of favorite and rare watches at the auction, have an eye addiction, and have a good time. So I don't know which one do you like more for this year's watch auction?