Three world records established in one auction
Antiquorum, one of the world’s leading auctioneers of modern and vintage timepieces, recently hosted a premium online auction in Genève, which resulted in three world records
A world record was established for a steel Lange 1 – A. Lange & Söhne, Lange 1 Ref. 101.026 – sold for CHF 312,500. According to Antiquorum, there were less than 30 pieces made in steel, and the timepiece is considered a rarity.
Another world record was for an Omega Chronomètre à Tourbillon in yellow gold, which sold for CHF 412,500. Only 12 examples were made for observatory trials. Antiquorum discovered that in the 1980s, this movement was owned by Mr Franck Muller, and that he was the one that finished and assembled the movement. Mr Muller had the dial made by Tille and the case was ordered from the famous casemaker of Patek Philippe cases, among others, to Mr Jean-Pierre Hagmann. A true piece of watchmaking history.
The third world record was for a steel Rolex Zerographe with a white dial, Ref. 3346, which sold for CHF 225,000. Even rarer than the reference 4113, considered the holy grail for collectors, Ref. 3346 is the first ever Rolex Chronograph to feature an in-house movement: a 17-jewel, manual-wind Rolex calibre with a flyback stop-seconds function.
