Upcoming sales contain items that match your interests... June 2011‏

damn does it match my interests but i ain't got the do$h to buy me what i want...

several watch auctions headed our way in June, one of which is from Antiquorum Auctioneers who focus purely on timepieces... Antiquorum will also be having a couple more interesting auctions later in the year, with the Only Watch Auction being one of the highlights for sure... for the upcoming 8 Jun NY auction though, the raphmeister managed to take photos of the watches for sale and here are some choice pics from that... this is not meant to be a wordy post so for more details on the watches do go by this link to their catalog LINK

I really like this Patek...the PP3448 (Lot 340 Est US$100-120k)

one of the highlights for the auction... Lot 351, audemars piguet grand complication royal oak offshore... minute repeater & perp cal & split seconds chrono... (Est US$250-350k)

gongs to view thru the caseback & typical fine finishing from AP...

Another highlight is this beautiful Vacheron Constantin Perp Cal Minute Repeater... Lovely crisp tones from the repeater... Piece Unique (Lot 341 Est US$200-250k)

another beautiful finely executed movement

there are also a spate of interesting Rolexs on the auction block... there's a 6062 triple date with moon phase Rolex (Lot 169 Est US$150-200k)

a 6241 Gold Daytona (so called Paul Newman)... i love the exotic dials... (Lot 312 Est US$100-120k)


a jean claude killy 6236 will be up as well... (Lot 168 Est US$80-120k)

not one of the stratospheric priced pieces but i like it anyhow... the 16550 ivory dial explorer II retailed by tiffany & co (Lot 51 Est US$12-15k)

& a gorgeous 1665 DRSD double red sea dweller with Mark 1 dial, patent pending (Lot 161 Est US$40-60k) slight shame that the hands are not original to the watch but otherwise a great looking example...

a nice white milgauss is up too (Lot 166 Est US$20-25k)

and a beautiful in the metal yellow gold submariner... hmm there may be a yellow gold rolex in my future :) (Lot 56 Est US$10-12k)

this watch is cool to me because it features an innovative pulsomax escapement with a silinvar spiromax balance spring... limited to 300 pieces made (Lot 243 Est US$70-90k)

the sapphire caseback also has a magnifier over the innovation that it sports... clever :)

gorgeous AP Millenary Maserati Tourby... (Lot 101 Est US$120-140k)

gotta love the AP Renaud et Papi movement... the back is beautiful on this large millenary

this is a teenie tiny Le Coultre reverso but the chocolate dial color is just soo rich and nice... this is in the affordable range... (Lot 327 Est US$2-3k)

for slim wristed ladies perhaps... Measuring 23 x 38 mm with a 8mm thickness... they made them a LOT smaller back then :)

a most interesting auction indeed with over 350 lots that will be taking place 8 Jun in New York... for more details, hop over to the Antiquorum website here
Stay tuned as I review the result post these auctions in June. Cheers, Raph