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Patek Philippe watch fetches record 11 million dollars at auction

A stainless steel Patek Philippe watch has sold for a record 11 million dollars (10.2 million euros) in Geneva, an auction house said Monday. The piece from the Swiss company's 1518 series sold on Saturday for 11,002,000 Swiss francs following a 13-minute bidding war, according to a statement from Phillips, a leading watch auction firm based in...

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Watch fetches record 13.3 million pounds at Swiss auction

A Patek Philippe gold watch billed as the most expensive -- and most complicated -- in the world fetched a record 21.3 million dollars (13.3 million pounds) on Tuesday when it went under the hammer in Switzerland. The sale of the "Henry Graves Supercomplication", a handcrafted timepiece named after its original owner, a New York banker who...

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Records set at Patek Philippe anniversary auction

Records tumbled at a special auction in Geneva Sunday to mark 175 years of Patek Philippe watches, with a rare pink gold item going for 2.67 million dollars, auctioneers Christie's said. The auction of 100 wrist and pocket watches brought in a total of 19,731,099 dollars, double the original estimate, and set nine world records in the process....