Antiquorum's anniversary sale “Celebrating 35 Years of Making History in Time” drew an impressive CHF 12,174,948 in total sales over two days on November at the Mandarin Oriental in Geneva.


Lot 364, The highlight of the sale was unquestionably the Patek Philippe Calibre 89 - the world's most complicated and talked about timepiece.
After several minutes of intense bidding in the room and on the telephone, the final bid reached an extraordinary CHF 5,120,000 – a new world record for this watch and also the most expensive watch sold in 2009 by any auction house in the world. This is the second time Antiquorum has had the pleasure of selling this unique timepiece; in 1989 Antiquorum sold the Calibre 89 in its sale celebrating the 150th anniversary of Patek Philippe for an impressive CHF 4,950,000.

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Source: Antiquorum