The auction season is running and there are some things outstanding & interesting, but remarkably few tbh. And this leads to my number one advise for watch auctions:

• The most informative and interesting point is not what is sold to you for record-prices but what is not (yet) offered for sale, although it is there. Or at least what goes a bit under radar.

How this connects to my understanding of the importance of watches and the relevance of a collection is left to the reader: *klikk here and *klikk there.

Its like a Deja-Vue all over again: Without big surprise we can see further-lifted record prices through out.

One interesting example: The two unique Beta22 (!) Piaget on the photo, which had been sold by Antiquorum four years ago for less than CHF10'000 as table-clocks (*klikk) and which became wristwatches in the meantime, had been sold by MonacoLegendAuctions now for roughly CHF100'000 -- aesthetically beautiful watches / clocks, indeed but horological irrelevant and with a bit dubious history. Both were probably made on a specific customer-request in the mid to late 70s (1975 or 1981!?) and as such are of course unique. They were made outside of the horological relevant limited edition of Piaget Beta21 (either ref14101 or ref15101, made between 1970 and 1973) but are nevertheless beautiful watches and were worn by the music-star Usher earlier this year: *klikk.

We have not less interesting watches and often with a less convoluted past but with more horological substance -- Beta21s, electronic but plenty of important mechanical watches, too. Here: *klikk.