SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Bonhams & Butterfields announces its September 19, 2011 auction of Salon Jewelry and Watches in San Francisco, simulcast to Los Angeles. The sale, timed to coincide with the firm’s SoMa Estate Auction with Jewelry the day prior…
Millionaires Invested More in Art, Luxury in 2010 Says World Wealth Report
ZURICH (REUTERS).- Demand for art, watches, rare wines, vintage cars and other offbeat investments that set pulses racing expanded in 2010 as wealth levels of the world’s super-rich rebounded from the financial crisis, a report said. “The value of many…
Clock Designed for Napoleon’s 1801 Exposition, Lost for Two Centuries, to Sell at Bonhams
LONDON.- An historic and rare clock believed to have been designed for Napoleon’s ‘Exposition publique des produits de l’industrie Francaise’ in 1801 and which has lain undiscovered in Europe for two centuries, is to be sold at Bonh…
Clock Designed for Napoleon’s 1801 Exposition, Lost for Two Centuries, to Sell at Bonhams
LONDON.- An historic and rare clock believed to have been designed for Napoleon’s ‘Exposition publique des produits de l’industrie Francaise’ in 1801 and which has lain undiscovered in Europe for two centuries, is to be sold at Bonh…
Rare Timepieces from the Collection of James Ward Packard to Be Offered at Christie’s
NEW YORK, NY.- Among serious watch collectors and horological aficionados, perhaps no name inspires as much reverence and admiration as that of James Ward Packard (1863-1928), the American auto manufacturer and inventor whose passion for watch collecti…
Sotheby’s Hong Kong Important Watches Spring Sale 2011 Achieves US$9.4 Million
HONG KONG.- Sotheby’s Hong Kong Important Watches Spring Sale 2011 held yesterday achieved an impressive total of HK$73,086,250 / US$9,370,032 (Est. HK$46 -92.3 million / US$5.9 – 8 million*), achieving the Highest Ever Total For A Various-Owner S…
Only Publicly Known Matching Pair of Singing Bird Pistols Offered at Christie’s
HONG KONG.- On Monday, 30 May 2011, Christie’s will present a magnificent pair of matching gold and enamel Singing Bird Pistols, the highlight of the Important Watches sale in Hong Kong this Spring. Estimated at HK$20 million to 40 million/US$2.5 …
Only Publicly Known Matching Pair of Singing Bird Pistols Offered at Christie’s
HONG KONG.- On Monday, 30 May 2011, Christie’s will present a magnificent pair of matching gold and enamel Singing Bird Pistols, the highlight of the Important Watches sale in Hong Kong this Spring. Estimated at HK$20 million to 40 million/US$2.5 …
Drive End: Martin Beauregard’s First Exhibition in a Museum
MONTREAL.- Through September 19, 2010, in the Contemporary Art Square on Level S2 of the Jean‐Noël Desmarais Pavilion, the The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts presents Drive End, a remarkable photographic project by Martin Beauregard. This is the a…