Only watch 2023: tracking the best

There are enough celebrity sightings daily on social media to hook the watch lover. When we zoom into david beckham’s gold Dive Watch (Tudor Black Bay 58) As he Aces The Summer Look in His Wimbledon Royal Box Seat. Or Note Tom Cruise’s Rectangular Cartier Santos de Cartier and Vacheron Constantin Overseas perpetual calendar ultra thin, both old favors, on his Latest ‘Mission: Impossible’ Mission: Impossible ‘Pre. Or Max Vestappen’s Custom Tag Heuer Monaco at the Austrian Grand Prix Podium. But if it is eccentric meters d’Art dials, a beele lot of daring and world records for watch prises that one is after, noting serves like the only watch line -up.

This year’s edition of the most anticipated watch auction worldwide, Scheduled for November 5 in Geneva, Has Its Share of Quirk from the 73 Watchmakers and Brands Participating. Take Swiss Brand Angelus, Known for Its GroundBreaking Mid-Tentary Chronographs, which has roped in Château Angelus, An Exceptional Wine from the Bordeaux Terroir. The dial of the chronodate gold x château angelus is made from freeze-dared leaes from the 2022 vintage, the powdered wine giving the dial both texture and color. It is certainly posher, thought, at present an estimate of chf 50,000 to 60,000 (approximately ₹ 46 lakh to ₹ 55 lakh), cheaper than h. Moser’s Swiss Mad Watch Made of Real SWSE BACK In 2017.

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Some of the 62 Unique Mechanical TimePieces to be auctioned to Advance Medical Research in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Come with Experiences Too. The Angelus Collaboration Includes a prestigious “impérile” from the 2012 vintage, a less bottles of the château’s rare grand vin blanc, and an invitation to the château in Santau in Sant-émilion. Meanwhile, Roman Jeweller Bulgari Sweets Its Lot with a One-Night Stay at Its Newest Hotel in Rome. And Tag Heuer’s Winner will join the brand at the monaco formula 1 Grand Prix in May 2024. The biennial fundraiser also has a famous Rodent checking in. Collectors will battle it out for the resuscited genta brand’s only watch edition, its first, to mark disney’s 100th anniversary. The champlevé enamel dial features mickey mouse holding a birthday cake.

Of course, not all the lots have been full revised – the H. Moser X MB & F streamlineer pandamonium teaser promises an artistic performance live by a miniature dj panda. Watch Aficionados are also speculating over what patek will bring to the table to mark the 85th birthday of philippe stern. As London-Based Collector and Social Media Director at Standard Chartered, Mohamed Muraj, puts it, “This is an interesting platform for manufacturers to flex, to Illustrate What is the person Watchmaking.

Bulgari Octo Finissimo Tourbillon Marble | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Bulgari Octo Finissimo Tourbillon Marble

The Octo Finissimo’s case, composed of 110 fares, is clad in marble or verde di alpi. Even the dial and bracelet feature marble. This green marble comes from the aosta valley, which links switzerland and italy through the alps. At 6 o’clock, the Marble Reveals the frying tourbillon of the BVL 268, The World’s Thinnest Manually-Wounded Flying Tourbillon.

Louis Vuitton Tambour Einstein Automata

A playful tribute to the famous physicist, the timepiece recreates one of his most popular pictures in hand-engraved relief. The Math Formula Chalkboard Scribbles and Lv’s Adaptation of His Famous E = MC2 Formula for Energy are other winning features but the most striking is how his face appars to change expenses Complication is activated.

Louis Vuitton Tambour Einstein Automata | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Tag Heuer Monaco Split-Seconds Chronograph

Said to be their hottest monaco yet, featuring a mechanical split-seconds chronograph with a brand-new movement. The new variation of titanium used, what they call ‘Texturized Titanium’ is Responsible for a Crystalized Effect and Enhanced Surface Hardness.

Tag Heuer Monaco Split-Seconds Chronograph | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Montblanc 1858 geosphere 0 oxygen carbo2

The maison has been sharing zero oxygen teasers for a white, in analysis of a new collection in April 2024. The only watch edition has a new midle case Material with CATH COTH COTH COTH COTH COTH This is a tribute to explorers and adventurers working in harsh environments, say the brand, with the ‘0 oxygen’ inside the case eliminating fogging and oxidation. Need Some Drama? Record-breaking alpinist nimsdai purja, who Ascended Mount Everest with Supplementary Oxygen for a Collection with Montblanc Last Year, Has Donated His ice Pick. A personal note from he and the watch is encased in a zero-oxygen ice-like capsule. To access the watch, the winning bidder will need purja’s ice pick to break the case.

Montblanc 1858 geosphere 0 oxygen carbo2 | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Hermès Arceau Le Temps Voyageur

With Its Platinum and Titanium case, the timepiece has a unique reading of the world’s hours – as the gravitational counter travels across the constinents, the face of the watch changes and online dimensions. The satellite gravitates on an imaginary map created by jérôme colliard for the planisphere d’An monk équestre silk scarf.

Hermès Arceau Le Temps Voyageur | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

JC biver’s catharsis

JC BIVER’s Catharsis | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

The piece combines unusual handcrafts, with unique techniques for invisible gem-setting, stone marquetry and guillloché. What stands out is the absence of hands as an unusual minute reepeater presents a restless sea, the starry sky made of meteorite, silver obsidian and opal. Industry Veteran Jean-Claude biver made headlines when the prototype of this minute reepeater, with a tourbillon and micro-rotor, was sold for the record price of chf 1.27 Million (Approximately ₹ 11.7 Crore) By Phillips in Geneva on May 15, 2023.

Hublot Mp-15 Takashi Murakami Tourbillon | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Hublot mp-15 Takashi Murakami Tourbillon

Hublot and Takashi Murakami have been collectiveing since 2020. For hublot’s first-ever Central Tourbillon Model, Murakami’s gem-encrusted flower is freed from the traditionally-shaped case to become its. Who only watch 2023’s Rainbow Theme is Seen in the 12 Large Petals of the Daisy, and in the Hour Markers, Don’T Miss the Laser Engraving of the Smiling Eyes and Mouth Under the DOMED SAPPHRERTAL. Murakami recently took to instagram to confess that his company almost went bankrupt in 2020 but that he now has expansion plans. This unique timepiece and a recent collaboration with American rapper pharrel williams prove yet again that his “anime-infused brain”, as he calls it, is he calls it, is in peak form.

Piaget polo skeleton arty

Piaget Polo Skeleton Arty | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Piaget’s entry in only watch’s 10th edition has an open-worked dial, which houses the ultra-thin 1200s1 skeleton movement. Its green, blue and rose gold color and design pay tribute to Hungarian-French Artist, Victor Vasarely, Whoose 1979 Artwork Hexa Grace is displayed on the ROOF of the ROOF of the Monaco Convention Center.

The watches will embark on a world tour beginning on September 6 in Los Angeles Before Moving on to New York, Singapore, Dubai, etc. Details at www.onlywatch.com

Published – July 07, 2023 07:57 PM IST