1660000 drop hammer, a piece of George Daniels watch a record high auction!

This year Sotheby's London auction, the cover of the auction, a piece of Platinum George Daniels Millennium (Millennium Table), finally with a price of 187,500 pounds (about 166 million), set a new auction watch Record.

This Millennium watch from the hands of master George Daniels, diameter 37mm, made in 1999 and delivered to the buyer. Internal equipped with coaxial escapement movement, put Tuo and the outer edge of the movement are made of fine carved decoration, previously estimated at 8-12 million pounds. The reasons for far exceeding the valuation and breaking previous records are as follows:

1, the earliest Master Daniels just intend to do 12 Millennium watches, to meet the needs of friends. Then, this watch became famous, so in the end the master made a total of 47 gold and 7 platinum versions.

Platinum Edition is one of the few seven in the list, but the special feature of this watch is that it is a two-color version of Millennium - with gold ticking rings, calendar rings, and gold pointers. It is reported that seven platinum Millennium, only two are using this combination, the remaining five are used platinum ring, calendar ring and blue steel pointer. Therefore, the only two two-color Platinum Edition, but also to increase the scarcity of this table.

3, with the watch auction together, there is a master's personal letter.

Earlier this watch record holder, is Bonhams auction line in 2012 made a plain Platinum Edition, then the commission-included price of 157,250 pounds. This new record is 20% more than the last auction record. Although the auction numbers look good, some of George Daniels's loyalties are not convinced, after all, five years later, in accordance with the price increase probability also rose a lot, right? So this watch can certainly continue to record highs.