Naissance d’une Montre’s Montre Ecole sets record price at Christie’s

The Montre Ecole, the first watch to be created as part of the Naissance d’une Montre – Le Garde Temps project, sold for US$1,461,507 (with a low-end estimate of US$450,000) at the Christie’s auction in May at Hong Kong. The watch, which received a never-before-seen 100/100 points by the independent critic’s guide “The Watch Enthusiast,” is a milestone and validation of the combined efforts of Robert Greubel, Stephen Forsey and Philippe Dufour to safeguard and transmit traditional watchmaking knowledge and skills to Michel Boulanger, a teacher at the Paris watchmaking school. The Montre Ecole is the very first of eleven pieces to be made.