The Solely Watch 2021 charity public sale concluded this weekend on the Palexpo in Geneva, elevating near CHF30 million for analysis into Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMS). Because of this over the course of 9 auctions, Solely Watch has raised greater than CHF100 million. This yr, the highest lot was the Patek Philippe Difficult Desk Clock, which bought for CHF9.5 million. Patek Philippe holds the crown for the best bid realised at CHF31 million for the Grandmaster Chime in 2019. That occurs to be the world’s most costly watch.
This exceptional watch apart, Solely Watch 2021 was in all probability much more profitable by way of particular person watches beating estimates. Some notable examples are the F.P. Journe x Francis Ford Coppola FFC Blue (CHF4.5 million) and the Tudor Black Bay GMT One (CHF650,000, beating an estimate of CHF4-8,000). That Tudor might be the most effective performers of this public sale.
These watches have been all amongst our favourites (as famous right here), which additionally embody the TAG Heuer Solely Watch Carbon Monaco (CHF290,000), Breguet Type XX Only Watch 2021 (CHF250,000), Blancpain Tribute to Fifty Fathoms No Rad for Solely Watch (CHF130,000) and the Girard-Perregaux Casquette Solely Watch 2021 (CHF80,000). These should not the one heaps to outperform expectations this yr, with the public sale total outdoing the final one, as beforehand famous. In any occasion, it’s gratifying to see such an outpouring of assist for analysis right into a remedy for DMS. It’s value remembering {that a} prodigious 99 per cent of all proceeds go to the trigger.
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