Richard is a freelance writer specialising in auction reporting and has a passion for watches and horology. Since 2018 he has written about auction sales of watches, clocks, and fine collector items. His articles have been...
Richard is a freelance writer specialising in auction reporting and has a passion for watches and horology. Since 2018 he has written about auction sales of watches, clocks, and fine collector items. His articles have been published in Antiques Trade Gazette, Horological Journal (British Horological Institute publication), TimePiece (British Watch & Clock Makers' Guild publication), and online watch website MrWatchMaster.com.More articles from Richard Fox
TimeForArt, and charity watch auction highlights
Watch brands and charity collab auctions have produced some spectacular results this year. Only Watch conducted by Christie’s got things started on May 10 with their 10th edition of the charity watch auction. The sale...
November 2024 Watch Auction Update – Geneva highlights
This month we take a whistlestop tour through some of the highlights from the Geneva watch auctions. In terms of high value watches Antiquorum got things racing with the sale of a Richard Mille, Reference....
October 2024 Watch Auction Update – Podium Winners & Moon Astronauts
Last month I covered the IWC Schaffhausen Pilot’s Watch Chronograph Edition ‘Polaris Dawn’ wristwatches worn by the crew of the recent Polaris Dawn Mission. This month we are back in space again heading for the...
September Watch Auction Update - Out of this World Watches
Followers of Chris Grainger-Herr, CEO of IWC Schaffhausen, Instagram account might have seen a video post of an IWC Pilot’s chronograph wristwatch floating in zero gravity inside a space capsule. Behind the floating watch is...
August Watch Auction Update - Steve McQueen's Heuer Monaco
Last month I provided an update about the slow down in the secondary watch market. This month the headline is about a watch that could possibly sell for US $1 million or more, when it...
July Watch Auction Update
The secondary watch market, plus an exceptionally rare Patek Philippe and Captain Bob Maloubier’s Fifty Fathoms.
June auction update – Sylvester Stallone’s Patek Philippe Grandmaster Chime is sold for $5,400,000
What to make of the current market? Quickly following on from May’s Geneva and Hong Kong spring auctions, covered by WatchGecko Magazine, the international watch auction world parked up in New York for the June...
Part Two – Spring watch auctions across Geneva, Hong Kong, and London.
Last week, in Part One of our Spring auction highlights, we covered the sale of a variety of interesting Patek Philippe World Time wristwatches, as well as world record-breaking Rexhep Rexhepi sales. Prototype tourbillons, a Co-Axial escapement...
Part One – Spring watch auctions across Geneva, Hong Kong, and London.
Spanning the globe from Geneva to Hong Kong the month of May is the important spring season for watch auctions. Offered up for sale are hundreds of watches amongst which are some of the rarest...
Only Watch 2024 highlights – £13.8M Patek Philippe wristwatch, stunning independent creations, and £24.9M raised for charity.
With an opening bid of five million Swiss Francs, (approx. £4.4 million), Patek Philippe’s wristwatch contribution to the 10th running of Only Watch was always going to be the star attraction. The hammer eventually fell...
April auction update – first self-winding Patek Philippe wristwatch, a unique Cartier, 60s & 70s design, and a £1.2 million pocket watch.
One month out before the headline May Geneva auctions, April still saw some unique and highly collectable watches come up for auction, including a pocket watch from the tragic sinking of R.M.S. Titanic in 1912...
March Auction Update – perpetual calendars, golden Omega watches, a 60s motorsport Heuer Carrera and more….
March has been busy with a combination of online and live sales across the major international auction houses and UK based auction houses. This update report covers some interesting watches including rare perpetual calendar wristwatches,...