The auction "IMPORTANT MODERN & VINTAGE TIMEPIECES", curated by Antiquorum Auctioneer, will be held on 9 May in Geneva at the Hotel Beau-Rivage. With a total of 535 lots and a catalog full of a great variety of wrist and pocket watches, able to satisfy every type of collector. Speaking with Julien Schaerer (Managing Director of Antiquorum) and Giovanni Varesi (Head of Italy [...]
The Geneva Watch Auction: XIII organized by Phillips in Association with Bacs & Russo will be held on 8 and 9 May in Geneva. During these weeks we will deal in depth with the catalog which, as always, turns out to be extremely interesting and full of watches that differ in rarity, beauty and collecting importance. Among these the top lot is the Patek Philippe 25 [...]
The Geneva edition of Watches & Wonders 2021 - forcibly made online by the pandemic - is wrapping up as I write this. While waiting to return to Shanghai for the second act of the event, the inevitable popularization of a common digital platform generated, par opposition, greater attention to the products of the event; the only nucleus of aggregations [...]
If the most important Patek Philippe news will be revealed in a few days, the brand kicks off Watches & Wonders 2021 with the presentation of several new Nautilus, including the splendid green edition of the 5711A and, also quite spectacular, a new gold pink and blue soleil dial combination for the Nautilus Travel Time Chronograph 5990. Introduced in 2014 to [...]
The green wave continues to infect the world of watchmaking. On the occasion of Watches & Wonder 2021 Patek Philppe unveils his iconic Nautilus 5711 / 1A-014 in steel, with a brand new olive green dial. Born at the hand of the genius of Gerlad Genta and introduced by Patek Philippe in 1976, with the reference 3700, the Nautilus has carved out an important place in the Olympus of watchmaking over the years [...]
Guest of this episode Marcello De Marco - Watch Specialist for the renowned auction house Phillips in Association with Bacs & Russo. Matteo and Vittorio spoke with Marcello about the results of the auctions staged this weekend: The Geneva Watch Auction XII and Retrospetive 2000 - 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DElVoC7XQs Marcello De Marco is first of all a great enthusiast. P [...]
The Patek Philippe Ellipse was born in 1968, upsetting what were the canons of the wristwatch. Those were the years when the shape of the cases was purely round, the shape of the shape was being appreciated slowly and like a bolt from the blue, here was presented in Basel in 1968 the Patek Philippe with one of the most iconic shapes in the world, the 'Ellipse. A right way [...]
Dear friends of Perpetual Passion, here we are at our tenth episode of Perpetual Radio! Guest of this episode, by popular demand, Giovanni Varesi - Watch Specialist for the prestigious auction house CHRISTIE'S. Together with Giovanni we talked about the current situation of the watch market and the results obtained in the first physical auctions of the season, after these months characterized by [...]
After having spent the last few months confined to our homes and confined to our countries, we are finally back to travel and, luckily for us, we will also be able to take advantage of a nice weekend in Geneva by participating in the first 'physical' auctions of the year! Not to be missed is the 'Rare Watches' auction organized by the prestigious Christie's auction house which will take place on July 20th at the Four [...]