Phillips Hong Kong Auction XVI: An Imperial Patek, And Independents Ascendant
Phillips Hong Kong Auction XVI: An Imperial Patek, And Independents As...

Condition is everything – except when it isn’t. Phillips: The Hong Kong Watch Auction XVI, took place over the 24th and 25th of May...

The Rolex Cellini Dual Time
The Rolex Cellini Dual Time

A masterpiece from a Rolex renaissance. The discontinuation of the Rolex Milgauss line generated a lot of buzz and a lot of interest in c...

Geneva Auction Week: Indies Shine, Classics Climb, And That Million Dollar Milgauss
Geneva Auction Week: Indies Shine, Classics Climb, And That Million Do...

Or should I say, two million dollar Milgauss? The dust is settling from this spring’s Geneva Auction Week 2023, and while it may be...

A Few Things I Didn’t Hate from Watches and Wonders 2023
A Few Things I Didn’t Hate from Watches and Wonders 2023

Variety is the spice of life. This year’s Watches and Wonders Geneva was the biggest version of the show so far — there were over...

The Rolex Milgauss
The Rolex Milgauss

Pour one out for one of the great, niche, highly specific watches of all time. This was a somewhat atypical year for Rolex. While the fir...

A Purely Personal Take on Watches & Wonders 2023
A Purely Personal Take on Watches & Wonders 2023

Refreshes, Reboots and Disruptions from Rolex Watches and Wonders 2023 is the last remaining instance of a kind of event that used to d...

Standouts From Watches and Wonders 2023
Standouts From Watches and Wonders 2023

High notes from the biggest industry event of the year. One thing that makes watch collecting an absolute joy is diversity of opinion. ...

Rolex Revamps The Daytona, Launches New Dress Line, And Gets Downright Whimsical At Watches & Wonders 2023
Rolex Revamps The Daytona, Launches New Dress Line, And Gets Downright...

We also bid a sad farewell to the niche, but beloved, Milgauss and Cellini collections, but there’s a whole new collection in town....

Collection Building Your Way with Griffin Bartsch
Collection Building Your Way with Griffin Bartsch

How would you spend half a million dollars? What about a million? This new column will offer our community of enthusiasts a forum to answ...

Report From BCG Says, “Luxury Pre-Owned Watches, Your Time Has Come”
Report From BCG Says, “Luxury Pre-Owned Watches, Your Time Has C...

Correction notwithstanding, pre-owned watches continue show impressive performance as investments. This won’t be news to anyone who...

Rolex To Open Three Temporary Factories To Meet Increased Demand: Bloomberg
Rolex To Open Three Temporary Factories To Meet Increased Demand: Bloo...

The new factories are a stopgap until a new permanent factory opens in 2029 When it comes to Rolex, there are, in general, very few thing...

Movement Finishing in Modern High Grade Fine Watchmaking
Movement Finishing in Modern High Grade Fine Watchmaking

Of all the crafts associated with fine watchmaking, there’s none more fundamental, none which really defines what fine watchmaking ...

December Auction Report
December Auction Report

Auctions in December are always a little elegiac in feel — it’s the end of the year, the days have gotten shorter, and nighttime co...

The Rolex Turn-O-Graph, Ref. 116264
The Rolex Turn-O-Graph, Ref. 116264

The Rolex Turn-O-Graph is one of those Rolex models which exists slightly in the shadow of the more mainstream and widely known sports mo...

Jack’s Picks: The Astonishing World of Horological Gem-Setting
Jack’s Picks: The Astonishing World of Horological Gem-Setting

There is among watch enthusiasts a tendency to dismiss gem-set watches as purely decorative objects whose primary function is to act as a...

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