With three exceptional lots leading the charge, Phillips’s latest auction underscored a decade of record-setting performance. Marking 10 years of redefining the auction landscape, the Decade One: ...

When you finance a long-gestating dream project yourself, that often comes with a need to raise money. If you’re Francis Ford Coppola and you’ve just spent nine figures making Megalopolis, that’s ...

Over the weekend, during a flurry of major auctions in Geneva, a Patek Philippe 1518 in steel sold for a whopping $17.6 million. That made it the second-most-expensive vintage wristwatch ever sold at ...

The New York Watch Auction: XIII, which included the sale of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola’s custom watch, became the highest-grossing watch auction in U.S. history on Sunday. The auction’s 10th ...

Francis Ford Coppola’s custom watch has now sold for $10.8 million. On Saturday, Coppola’s one-of-a-kind F.P. Journe FFC Prototype — which he also co-designed — was among seven watches offered at ...

Phillips with Bacs & Russo will offer the first watch to break the $10 million price barrier: the stainless-steel Patek Philippe reference 1518. Introduced in 1941, it was the world’s first perpetual ...

The 1940s were a remarkably fertile period at Patek Philippe. As the Second World War raged, the elite Swiss watchmaker debuted the ref. 1526 perpetual calendar and the ref. 1518 perpetual calendar ...

The watch was owned by John Jacob Astor IV, a businessman who died when the Titanic sank in 1912.

Back in May of 2017, a watch belonging to Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thụy, the last Emperor of the Nguyễn Dynasty of Vietnam, hammered for roughly $5.06 million. Dubbed “Bao Dai” after the Emperor’s honorific ...

Even as the Titanic slipped beneath the icy North Atlantic, one story of devotion survived the disaster — and now it has made history at auction. A gold pocket watch that once ticked on the wrist of ...

Francis Ford Coppola's custom watch led the sale at $10.8 million. By Carly Thomas Associate Editor The New York Watch Auction: XIII, which included the sale of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola’s custom ...