{"id":674176,"date":"2026-11-04T00:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T00:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/674176\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T00:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T00:20:13","slug":"11-timepieces-to-follow-at-phillips-hong-kong-watch-auction-xxiii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/674176\/","title":{"rendered":"11 Timepieces to Follow at Phillips\u2019 Hong Kong Watch Auction: XXIII"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phillips<\/a> is preparing its most valuable Hong Kong watch auction to date by presale estimate, led by rare Patek Philippe<\/a> wristwatches spanning more than eight decades of watchmaking. The Hong Kong Watch Auction: XXIII<\/a> will take place on November 21 and 22 at the house’s Asia headquarters in the West Kowloon Cultural District, with early highlights ranging from a 1940 split-seconds chronograph to a possibly unique diamond-set complication with a salmon dial.<\/p>\n

The sale comes two weeks after Phillips<\/a>‘ Geneva auction and ahead of its December auction in New York, placing Hong Kong squarely in the middle of the fall season. It also follows a significant spring result, when Phillips sold a pink-gold Patek Philippe Ref. 2499 for $10.2 million in Hong Kong<\/a>\u2014the highest price ever paid for a watch at auction in Asia. That two-day sale brought in $51.5 million, giving the November offering a considerable result to follow.<\/p>\n

This time around, a yellow-gold Patek Philippe<\/a> Ref. 2499 and a pink-gold Ref. 1518 return to the market after decades out of public view. They represent two of the manufacturer’s defining perpetual calendar chronographs, combining a stopwatch with a calendar that accounts for leap years and different month lengths. Alongside them is a platinum Patek Philippe Ref. 3990 with a salmon dial, possibly the only example of its kind, according to Phillips<\/a>. Other highlights include a Patek Philippe with a tropical landscape rendered in enamel and a black-and-gold Rolex<\/a> Daytona on a lavish gold mesh bracelet. A one-of-a-kind Cartier<\/a> Crash rounds out the group, adding a luminous pine-green dial to one of watchmaking’s most eccentric designs. Here are 11 watches in the upcoming sale to follow:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phillips is preparing its most valuable Hong Kong watch auction to date by presale estimate, led by rare…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[307,576,26364,98483,285619,6853,1424,240,61,1042,60,285620,72757,237638,3560,285621,22501,91374,45049,80,78666,285622,32115,285623],"class_list":["post-674176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-arts","tag-asia","tag-auctions","tag-cartier","tag-christieu2019s","tag-collectibles","tag-fashion","tag-hong-kong","tag-ie","tag-international","tag-ireland","tag-john-player-special","tag-leisure","tag-lotus","tag-luxury","tag-patek-philippe","tag-phillips","tag-rolex","tag-sothebyu2019s","tag-technology","tag-tiffany-co","tag-vichet","tag-watches","tag-wenger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}