Dear watch aficionado.
Dear watch aficionado.
Dear watch aficionado.
Soon available at my boutique will be this superb Lange & Söhne 101.005 with closed caseback, 110xxx serial, box, booklet and guarantee. Stay tuned for more infos and details.
¦¦passion for watchmaking¦¦
¦¦www.watchcollector.lu - vintage and independent timepieces, since 2011 proud partner of Andersen, Benzinger and Haldimann watches¦¦
Kind regards.
Christian
www.watchcollector.lu
Dear watch aficionado.
Herewith I would like to show you some of my favorite timepieces that I saw in Geneva. This time it seams again, as if not all the details (restorations, later dials, different problems, etc...) of the watches offered at auction are not correctly descripted neither in the catalogue nor in the condition report! So pay attention if you want to buy a piece at auction!
I just show the photos here of my favorite watches, with no major description. You probably all know what you are looking at.
¦¦passion for watchmaking¦¦
¦¦www.watchcollector.lu - vintage and independent timepieces, since 2011 proud partner of Andersen, Benzinger and Haldimann watches¦¦
Kind regards.
Christian
www.watchcollector.lu
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sold at Antiquorum |
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sold at Antiquorum |
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sold at Antiquorum |
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sold at Antiquorum |
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sold at Sotheby's |
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sold at Sotheby's |
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sold at Sotheby's |
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sold at Sotheby's |
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sold at Phillips |
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sold at Phillips |
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sold at Phillips |
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sold at Phillips |
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sold at Christie's |
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sold at Christie's |
Dear watch aficionado.
There are again two very interesting Omega Speedmaster's coming up for sale at RR auction on April 25th.
One of these Speedmaster's up for sale is the N°20 of Astronaut Richard Gordon. The first 28 examples were released known as the "Tribute to Astronauts", N°1 was reserved for President Richard Nixon, N°2 for Vice President Spiro Theodore Agnew and the following 26 examples for the Austronauts. This example is accompanied by its box, an insurance appraisal (with quite a very low value of 31 000$) and most important by a signed letter of Richard Gordon himself. Herewith is the direct link to the auction. At the time when I wrote this article, the bids were at 47 084$. It will be interesting to see for how much the Richard Gordon N°20 will be sold for, as the Wally Schirra N°8 sold for almost 2 Million $ (of which I wrote as well on my blogg)on October 20 2022, the Gus Grissom N°4 for 375000$ and the Alan Bean N°26 for 302 500$ on April 20 2023. And the Michael Collins N°19 was sold at Heritage auctions for 765 000$ on June 2nd 2022.
The more, RR auction do have the Andrey Borisenko Speedmaster Professional up for sale which spent 164 in Space on the International Space Station ISS. It is accompanied by the box, instruction manual, guarantee card, signed photograph of Andrey Borisenko and a signed letter by the cosmonaut. The watch was used on the ISS by cosmonaut Borisenko on mission 27/28 in 2011, which was as well the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gargarin's historic flight. At the time I wrote this article the bids were at 9 435$. It will be interesting to see for how much this watch will be sold... another comparable piece is probably the Astronaut Rick Mastracchio Speedmaster Professional which spent 188 days on the ISS, mission 38/39, and sold for 55 000$ on October 15 2020 at RR auction.
*photos are by RR auction
Dear watch aficionado.
Yesterday, Sotheby's sold the very first Patek Philippe 2526 (N°760.000) in their Hong Kong sale for 5 715 000 HKD, which is a splendid result for such an important timepiece. I am personally a big fan of the 2526 and therefor wanted to show you herewith this beautiful pink gold example.
¦¦passion for watchmaking¦¦
¦¦www.watchcollector.lu - vintage and independent timepieces, since 2011 proud partner of Andersen, Benzinger and Haldimann watches¦¦
Kind regards.
Christian
www.watchcollector.lu
Dear watch aficionado.
Dear watch aficionado.
This ROLEX 6265 yellow gold seems to be a great companion for this racing weekend NASCAR and F1
¦¦passion for watchmaking¦¦
¦¦www.watchcollector.lu - vintage and independent timepieces, since 2011 proud partner of Andersen, Benzinger and Haldimann watches¦¦
Kind regards.
Christian
www.watchcollector.lu
Dear watch aficionado.
This nice two tone Eberhard chronograph from ca 1937 seems to be a good fit for this weeks racing at NASCAR Bristol and the 12 hours Sebring IMSA
¦¦passion for watchmaking¦¦
¦¦www.watchcollector.lu - vintage and independent timepieces, since 2011 proud partner of Andersen, Benzinger and Haldimann watches¦¦
Kind regards.
Christian
www.watchcollector.lu
Dear watch aficionado.
I am a big fan of the timepieces made by Svend, especially the early Worldtime watches as this "Communication" with its great looking white dial. I do prefer as well this white dial version then the blue dial example with the world map on it. It looks cleaner and it reminds me more about the legendary Patek Philippe 1415, which is one of my all time favorite timepieces and so I always tend as well to call this Andersen Genève "1415". The more, this white dial is rarer to find then the blue example and probably produced in only a few dozen examples. Another interesting information about these "Communication" pieces is that the case has the hallmark of APG (Andersen Perret Genève) but the cases were actually made by Jean-Pierre Haguemann (JHP) but his hallmark was not stamped into the inside of the caseback.
Here is the link to the Bonhams auction in New York, which will end on Monday March 11. In the description they say that the watch comes without accessories.
¦¦passion for watchmaking¦¦
¦¦www.watchcollector.lu - vintage and independent timepieces, since 2011 proud partner of Andersen, Benzinger and Haldimann watches¦¦
Kind regards.
Christian, ChB
www.watchcollector.lu
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photo by Bonhams |
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photo by Bonhams |
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photo by Bonhams |
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photo by Bonhams |
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photo by Bonhams |
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photo by Bonhams |
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photo by Bonhams |
Dear watch aficionado.
For this F1 and NASCAR racing weekend this ROLEX 6262 Newman Panda is the perfect sports watch to put on the wrist.
¦¦passion for watchmaking¦¦
¦¦www.watchcollector.lu - vintage and independent timepieces, since 2011 proud partner of Andersen, Benzinger and Haldimann watches¦¦
Kind regards.
Christian, ChB
www.watchcollector.lu
Dear watch aficionado.
Guilloché main - Herewith I want to show you some nice details on this beautiful guilloché main dial on this lovely Benzinger GAP with its original Breguet frost finish and rose gilted details. All the guilliché made by Benzinger is done at his atelier on 100+ year old guilloché machines, all manually operated.
¦¦passion for watchmaking¦¦
¦¦www.watchcollector.lu - vintage and independent timepieces, since 2011 proud partner of Andersen, Benzinger and Haldimann watches¦¦
Kind regards.
Christian, ChB
www.watchcollector.lu
Dear watch aficionado.
NEW available at my boutique www.watchcollector.lu is this
Grieb & Benzinger chronographe rattrapante, regulateur
Patek Philippe for Tiffany&co movement from 1889
Unique timepiece
This Grieb & Benzinger is hand made with a Patek Philippe chronographe rattrapante movement from 1889, which was sold to Tiffany & co. in 1890. The movement is technically modified to get the regulateur indication. The more, all parts are either hand engraved, hand guilloché or hand skeletonized finished. The case is specially made to mesure for the movement with as well a hand made crown and pusher and hand guilloché bezel. It took Hermann Grieb and Jochen Benzinger more then 1000 hours of pure craftsmenship to finish this spectacular unique timepiece.
I welcome and will respond to your request on my address: info@watchcollector.lu
ChB
Movement:
Patek Philippe chronographe rattrapante
Made in 1889, sold to Tiffany & co. in 1890
Swiss lever escapement
Compensation balance with Breguet hairspring
26 jewels
32 hours power reserve
All parts are either hand engraved, hand guilloché or hand skeletonized
Technically modified for Regulateur indication
Case:
Platinum
Made to measure for this movement
Hand made crown, pusher and hand guilloché bezel
Dial:
Regulateur
Hand guilloché
Original Breguet Frost