Hammer prices including buyer's premium, from completed auctions. Unlike an asking price, this is what a buyer actually paid.
208,074
Lots
¥183,614
Average hammer, USD sales
¥93,347,358
Record, USD sales
Antiquorum
Top house
40% of lots beat their high estimate and only 11% fell short of the low, across 11,800 completed sales at Sotheby's from 2019 to Aug 2026.
Refreshed weekly, latest sale 6 Aug 2026.
| Lot | Watch | Estimate | Result | Vs estimate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39 |
A gold and enamel verge watch, Circa 1765
|
$3,000–5,000 | Not disclosed house does not publish results | – |
| 41 |
A gold and enamel verge watch, Circa 1750
|
$3,000–5,000 | Not disclosed house does not publish results | – |
| 82 |
Tank Louis | A yellow gold wristwatch with engraved case back…
1985 |
$10,000–15,000 | Not disclosed house does not publish results | – |
| 188 |
Reference 5235/50R-001 | A pink gold automatic annual calenda…
2022 |
$25,000–50,000 | Not disclosed house does not publish results | – |
| 183 |
Reference 116519 Daytona | A white gold automatic chronograph…
2005 |
$25,000–50,000 | Not disclosed house does not publish results | – |
| 184 |
Reference 16589 Daytona | A white gold and diamond-set automa…
1997 |
$120,000–240,000 | Not disclosed house does not publish results | – |
| 185 |
Reference 151.2.67.S Master Minute Repeater | A limited editi…
2010 |
$60,000–80,000 | Not disclosed house does not publish results | – |
| 186 |
Reference 5236P-001 Grand Complications | A platinum automati…
2022 |
$60,000–120,000 | Not disclosed house does not publish results | – |
These watches were catalogued and offered at auction, but the house does not publish what they sold for. The estimate is what the specialists expected them to make.
Showing 1–8 of 13,973 lots with prices not disclosed at Sotheby's. Prices as reported by the auction house, in the sale's original currency.
Curated from publicly documented auction results. Realized prices, hammer plus premium, never asking prices.
The most expensive wristwatch ever sold at auction. A one-off in steel with 20 complications, sold for charity.
Pocket watch with 24 complications, commissioned in 1925. Held the all-time record for years.
Paul Newman's own exotic-dial Daytona, a gift from Joanne Woodward. The most expensive Rolex ever sold.
One of only four known steel examples of the first serially produced perpetual calendar chronograph.
Resold at Phillips Geneva, 8 Nov 2025, for CHF 14,190,000
The only known white gold manual-wind Daytona. Sold for charity.
The first wristwatch by the master finisher, a grande sonnerie minute repeater.
Black-dial triple calendar moonphase owned by the last emperor of Vietnam.
Handmade pocket watch by the greatest watchmaker of the 20th century.
First-generation Speedmaster from 1957 with tropical dial, a record for Omega.
Worn by Brando in Apocalypse Now, bezel removed, caseback hand-engraved by Brando.
Steel prototype with 18 complications, sold for charity.
Double-faced grand complication, one of Patek's most complicated wristwatches.
Showing 207,985,208,008 of 208,074 results (filtered)
Auction
¥2,384,307
Patek Philippe Ref. 5960/1A-001
Auction
¥2,384,307
Rolex Ref. 116509-0044 Cosmograph Daytona
Auction
¥2,554,615
Rolex Ref. 218399BR Day-Date II
Auction
¥1,703,076
Patek Philippe Ref. 5110J-001 World Time
Auction
¥1,703,076
Patek Philippe Ref. 5146J-001
Auction
¥14,476,149
Patek Philippe Ref. 3970EJ, Second Series
Auction
¥936,692
Patek Philippe Ref. 3919J-016 Calatrava
Auction
¥2,384,307
Patek Philippe Ref. 5196P-001 Calatrava
Auction
¥1,873,384
Patek Philippe Ref. 5396G-001 Calatrava
Auction
¥1,617,923
Patek Philippe Ref. 5296G-001 Calatrava
Auction
¥20,436,916
Patek Philippe Ref. 5033P-012 Gondolo
Auction
¥2,554,615
Rolex Ref. 971 Prince Brancard, White gold
Auction
¥1,021,846
Patek Philippe Ref. 2591/2 Calatrava
Auction
¥11,921,534
Patek Philippe Ref. 2570/1 "Amagnetic"
Auction
¥4,768,614
Vacheron Constantin Ref. 4072
Auction
¥3,406,153
Rolex Ref. 1601 Datejust, Red Jasper in pink gold
Auction
¥2,554,615
Rolex Ref. 18038 Day-Date, “Golden Walnut”
Auction
¥4,683,460
Rolex Ref. 16018 Datejust Electric Blue
Auction
¥9,366,920
Patek Philippe Ref. 3700/3 Nautilus
Auction
¥4,598,306
Rolex Ref. 6263 Cosmograph Daytona “Big Red”
Auction
¥7,663,844
Rolex Ref. 116568BR Cosmograph Daytona
Auction
¥3,576,460
Rolex Ref. 128235 Day-Date “Rainbow”
Auction
¥63,439,594
Philippe Dufour Simplicity in steel
Auction
¥33,209,989
Oscillon L’instant de Vérité
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