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This is beyond crazy!! :-)
May 26, 2020,23:18 PM
While confined to the home, like many of you, I have decided to browse the various online watch auctions currently in progress and was especially bemused to see the famous cork box offered with early Nautilus models currently at HKD 95,000 whereas a beautiful enamel dial Patek minute repeater from 1910 had only reached HKD75,000! I know there is strong following for the Nautilus and less so for Patek pocket watches but dear friends, we are talking about a box outbidding a gold minute repeater!!
So I decided to look at the estimates and it confirmed that the world of watch collecting has gone absolutely bonkers - the minute repeater had an estimate of HKD48,000 to HKD70,000 while the cork box had an estimate of HKD100,000 to HKD200,000!! The fact that the minute repeater has exceeded its estimate is cause for comfort but with six days left on the auction, that cork box must be on route to breaking some sort of record.
Am I the only one here who would have placed a bid on the minute repeater rather than the cork box?!
Watch not included!!
Box not included!