Christie’s will auction the world’s most complicated watch, a Franck Muller 2010 creation with 1,483 components, 99 jewels, and 36 functions, (“complications”). It’s called the Aeternitas Mega 4 and has never before been offered at auction. Estimate runs from $600,000 to $1.2m. The first one sold by Muller to a Colorado man went for $2.2m. He flew all the way to Monte Carlo to pick it up.The watch took about 5-years to make. It has seven buttons on the face to work all the complications including a 1000 year calendar and, of course, a leap year adjustment. The sale will be held in Hong Kong on May 30, where many other classic and complicated horological treasures will also be offered.
Muller Watch Is REALLY Complicated
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May 9, 2013With a line-up of works less stellar than those Sotheby’s had offered the night before, Christie’s encountered a relatively muted response at its sale of Impressionist & Modern Art on Wednesday evening in New York. The top sellers were Soutine’s “Le Petit Pâtissier” from 1927, which generated just one bid and sold for its low $16m estimate, and Chagall’s 1926 canvas “Les Trois Acrobates.” A telephone bidder claimed the painting for $11.5m, well above its $6m-$9m estimate.
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Rising Value of Unrestored Cars
By Malcolm Welford, Vintage Car Specialist
