Only Watch 2019 Post-Auction Thoughts: Smashing Records For A Great Cause Plus The $31 ...

It took almost 12 minutes for the sale of the Grandmaster Chime to reach its final astounding result of 31 million Swiss francs, not only setting a record by surpassing the sale of Paul Newman's Paul Newman Rolex Daytona in 2017 by almost double, but also - remarkably - doing so for a brand-new watch and not one previously owned by some luminary The latter, a ladies' watch, also immediately followed the gigantic sale of the Patek Philippe Grandmaster Chime as lot 29; this sum was a magnificent and rather unexpected result While the result for the FP.

Journe Astronomic Blue wasn't that shocking based on the brand's 2017 Only Watch performance - where the Chronographe Monopoussoir Rattrapante, featuring a tantalum case and blue chrome dial, realized an astounding result of CHF 1,150,000 - the opening bid of CHF 1.5 million perhaps was Not only was this a watch constantly and consistently talked about at its introduction at the 2019 SIHH, but two days prior to the Only Watch auction it had just won the Calendar and Astronomy category of the 2019 Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève At Only Watch 2015, the brand's entry, the prototype of the RM 27-02 worn by Rafael Nadal during the 2015 French Open, hammered for CHF 650,000, an astounding sum of money for a prototype watch four years ago.

While the RM 11-03 McLaren prototype Richard Mille donated to Only Watch 2019 was no less engaging from a visual standpoint, I believe it didn't go quite as far into the stratosphere with its result because it was the prototype of a limited edition of 500 pieces, a number set by the amount of McLaren automobiles in the series it was originally introduced with Quick Overview: Only Watch 2019 total result and top 12 watches. . Source