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A Patek Philippe pocket watch. This list of most expensive watches sold at auction documents the watches sold at auction worldwide for at least 1.5 million US dollars.The final price listed is the total price paid by the buyer converted to US dollars, according to the currency exchange rate at the time of auction.
A hunter-case pocket watch is a case with a spring-hinged circular metal lid or cover, that closes over the watch-dial and crystal, protecting them from dust, scratches and other damage or debris. The name originated from England where "fox hunting men found it convenient to be able to open their watch and read the time with one hand, while ...
– Swiss pocket watch in 'hunter case' with complex movement showing day, date, hours, minutes, month and moon. Belonged to Polish pilot who was a prisoner of war in WWII, £600 – 1900s Glass vase from John Walsh Walsh of Stourbridge, £500 – mannequin from Drapery shop window, 1930s, £150 – Marcel Breuer chair, £600
Sheffield Archives (located in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England) collects, preserves and lists records (or archives) relating to Sheffield and South Yorkshire and makes them available for reference and research. Sheffield Archives is a joint service with Sheffield Local Studies Library.
Taylor's Eye Witness Works is a Grade II listed former industrial building on Milton Street in the Devonshire Quarter area of Sheffield city centre, South Yorkshire, England. The works specialised in producing kitchen and pocket knives along with various associated products from its construction in 1852 until their vacation in 2018. [1]
The Ingersoll Watch Company went bankrupt in 1921 during the recession that followed World War I. [6] It was purchased by the Waterbury Clock Company in 1922 for $1.5 million. Waterbury Clock sold the London-based arm of the Ingersoll watch business, Ingersoll, Ltd., to its board of directors in 1930, making it a wholly British-owned enterprise ...
The Patek Philippe Calibre 89 is a commemorative pocket watch created in 1989, to celebrate the company's 150th anniversary.Declared by Patek Philippe as "the most complicated watch in the world" at the time of creation, it has 33 complications, weighs 1.1 kg, exhibits 24 hands and has 1,728 components in total, including a thermometer, and a star chart.
In 1875, Adrien Philippe commissioned a watch that he later gave his daughter, Louise, as a wedding present, which is known as the only wristwatch dating back to be owned by either Patek or Philippe. This historical watch is known as “The Watchmaker’s Daughter” and was auctioned at Sotheby’s in 2023 by the descendants of Adrien Philippe ...