Features
Perpetual Picks: Our Favorite Summer 2025 Watches, Perpetual Edition
Summer is here, and our global Phillips PERPETUAL team has selected some favorite watches for the season.
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Perpetual Picks: The Genius of Gérald Genta, in Two Watches
From Minnie Mouse to minute-repeating perpetual calendars.
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Die to Drive: A Look at the Rolex Daytona 'Big Red' Ref. 6265 Gifted to F1 Driver Jean-Pierre Jabouille
His son Victor Jabouille reflects on his legendary racing driver father and the iconic Rolex he inherited.
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A Cartier Lantern Clock, a Royal Wedding, and a Lost Crown
Recently uncovered documents reveal that this illuminated Cartier masterpiece once united Egypt and Iran – and now, it’s headed to auction in Hong Kong.
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Double the Hands, Double the History: The Longines Ref. 5699 'Doppia Lancetta' Chronograph
With its dual central chronograph hands and celebrated 13ZN-12 calibre, this 1940s Longines is one of the coolest watches the brand has ever made.
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The Indie Insider: Keaton Myrick's American Watchmaking Dream
An American original: Discover the very first Keaton Myrick watch to appear at auction.
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Phillips Perpetual
Past Auctions
The Hong Kong Watch Auction: XX
23 May 2025 - 25 May 2025 • Hong Kong
The Geneva Watch Auction: XXI
10 May 2025 - 11 May 2025 • Geneva
Phillips Watches Online: The New York Sessions Featuring the 1979 Collection, Spring 2025
1 April 2025 - 8 April 2025 • New York
Phillips Watches Online Auction: The Hong Kong Sessions, Spring 2025
19 March 2025 - 26 March 2025 • Hong Kong
Phillips Watches Online Auction: The Geneva Sessions Spring 2025
5 March 2025 - 12 March 2025 • Geneva
The New York Watch Auction: XI
7 December 2024 - 8 December 2024 • New York
Videos
Follow the Rainbow
This extraordinary piece is more than just a ‘Rainbow’ Daytona, it’s the first one Rolex made. Ever.
News and Results
25
25 May 2025
PHILLIPS IN ASSOCIATION WITH BACS & RUSSO REALISE OVER HK$212 MILLION/ US$27 MILLION FOR THE HONG KONG WATCH AUCTION: XX, UP 30% FROM THE PREVIOUS YEAR
Read MoreThe Hong Kong Watch Auction: XX, 23-25 May 2025
TOTAL: HK$212,528,630/ US$27,139,906
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20 May 2025
PHILLIPS TO OFFER THE ROLEX DAYTONA OF FORMULA ONE TRAILBLAZER JEAN-PIERRE JABOUILLE IN THE NEW YORK WATCH AUCTION: XII
Read More“Big Red” Daytona Ref. 6265 with Engraving "Die To Drive" Commemorates the Champion Driver's Historic French Grand Prix Victory of 1979, With the Timepiece Remaining in the Jabouille Family Collection for Nearly Five Decades
12
12 May 2025
PHILLIPS IN ASSOCIATION WITH BACS & RUSSO ACHIEVE CHF 43.4 / USD 52 MILLION FOR THE GENEVA WATCH AUCTION: XXI, OUTPERFORMING THE MARKET
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Watches Department
Phillips in Association with Bacs & Russo is the watch department at Phillips auction house, dedicated exclusively to the world's finest collectors' watches. Launched in November 2014 by Aurel Bacs and his partner, Livia Russo, the department was established in response to the ever-increasing need for today's collectors to easily access scholarship, guidance and quality across the board. The team of specialists at Phillips Watches is dedicated to an uncompromised approach to quality, transparency and client service. With multiple world records, Phillips has become the undisputed worldwide market leader, and in 2019, the auction house opened Phillips PERPETUAL, a private treaty program with physical and digital storefronts that offers a highly curated selection of watches sold at fixed prices. In its first year PERPETUAL has achieved more than £5M in sales.
Notable results include :
1. Rolex reference 6239, Paul Newman's "Paul Newman" Rolex Daytona (US $17,752,500) – WINNING ICONS, in New York – 26 October 2017. Highest result ever achieved for a Rolex wristwatch.
2. Patek Philippe, Reference 1518 in stainless steel (11,002,000 CHF) – The Geneva Watch Auction FOUR – 12 November 2016. Highest result ever achieved for a Patek Phillipe wristwatch at auction.
3. Roger Smith, Pocket Watch No. 2 (4,900,000 USD) - The New York Watch Auction : EIGHT – 10 & 11 June. Highest result ever ahcieved by a British made watch.
4. Rolex "Bao Dai" reference 6062 (5,066,000 CHF) – The Geneva Watch Auction: FIVE – 14 May 2017.
5. Patek Philippe ref. 2523 in pink gold (3,722,000 CHF) – The Geneva Watch Auction: XII – Nov 6-7 2020. Highest result ever achieved for a watch sold to an online bidder
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