What A Year It’s Been: A Look At Our 2015 Highlights
What will we remember most about the past twelve months? Will it be the records set left and right in the auction world, or the release of the most complicated watch in the world? The unexpected decisions made by the most conservative brand in the industry, or the conservative watch made by the most unorthodox one? Today, we look back at some of the moments that stood out to us in our 2015 highlights…
The Most Talked About Watch – The Patek Philippe 5524G Pilot Travel Time…
The Most Unexpected Watch (Yet We’re So Happy It Exists) – The Rolex Oyster Perpetual Yatch-Master ‘Everose’…
The Watch That Will Redefine This Industry’s History – The record-breaking Vacheron Constantin 57260 Pocket Watch…
The Strangest Watch Of The Year – The Urwerk Titan UR-1001. Disclaimer: we love strange watches
The Most Promising Brand – Laurent Ferrier and Cyrus, for very different reasons…
Most Expensive New Watch Of The Year – The $18 million Jacob & Co. ‘Billionaire’ watch…
Most Expensive Vintage Watch Of The Year – The $4 million stainless steel Patek Philippe Ref 130…
The Watch We Saw In 2015 That We Probably Won’t See Again For A Very Long Time – The original Rolex Reference 5513, worn by Roger Moore in ‘Live and Let Die.’
The Most Unbelievable Auction Result – A Tudor Heritage Black Bay One, retailing for $3,100 on the current market, sold for one hundred times its value at Only Watch 2015. Final hammer price: CHF 375,000 Swiss Francs.
The Collaboration No One Saw Coming – The Hermès x Apple Watch, which only really benefitted Apple in the end…
The Collaboration Everyone Expected – Because it was announced, and because everyone waited impatiently to see what the man who saved mechanical watches could do with a smartwatch: The Tag Heuer Connected…
The Most Uncomfortable But Not At All Awkward Interview – Arthur Touchot, riding a polo horse for the first time while interviewing the sport’s number #1 player, Richard Mille ambassador Pablo Mac Donough.
Most Unexpected Quote – Larry Pettinelli, President of Patek Philippe US, talking about his children’s watch collection: “[My children] need to earn their own money, and put down their own hard earned [savings] for it.”
Most Heated Debate A tie between the inaugural GPHG debate, hosted by our own Arthur Touchot, and our own in-house debate about who should’ve won this year’s top prizes…
The Biggest Letdown – Still no revival of the Rolex Reference 6236 ‘Jean-Claude Killy’. A man can dream, right?
The Biggest Sight Of Relief – The latest Omega James Bond edition, was really, really, cool. Ian Fleming would probably have approved of 007 wearing the new Seamaster 300 M ‘Spectre’ limited edition.
The Most Beautiful Tribute – The Watchmaker’s Apprentice, a film focusing on the student/master relationship between George Daniels and Roger W. Smith.
Most Beautiful Moment – Coming face-to-face with Bar Refaeli at the opening of Hublot 2.0…
Best Anniversary Watch – Any of A. Lange & Söhne’s trilogy of watches to celebrate the 200th birthday year of its founder, Mr. Ferdinand Adolph Lange. One, Two, Three…
The Ambassadors Who Gave Their Brand The Greatest Press – Serena Williams and Stan Wawrinka, winning Roland-Garros on the same year, while both wearing their Audemars Piguet watches throughout the tennis tournament.
The Trend We Can Continue To Get Behind – High-end watchmakers releasing smaller, and more affordable timepieces in stainless steel, such as the sublime Jaeger-LeCoultre Geophysic Universal Time…
The Event We’d Love To See In Our Calendars Again Next Year – Dubai Watch Week. Only good things come from uniting the world’s top watchmakers for seven days.
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