# @sothebyswatches on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CDghd4GnLpW
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/12829697-sothebyswatches-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-08-05T12:47:47.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Sotheby's Watches (@sothebyswatches) — https://gondola.cc/sothebyswatches

## Caption

A few watches that made collectors tick this season … and set record prices:
 
Record for an Automatic Daytona at $ 3.3m
A possibly unique Rolex Cosmograph Daytona, Ref. 16516 with lapis lazuli dial, circa 1999
 
Record for a Tourbillon by Abraham-Louis Breguet at $2m
King George III’s gold four-minute tourbillon watch - one of the most important watches created by Breguet - secretly sold to the King of England in 1808, in the midst of the Napoleonic Wars
 
Record for a watch sold in an online auction and a Daytona JPS at $1.5m
An ultra-rare Rolex Daytona JPS reference 6264 in 18-carat gold
 
Record for a pocket watch sold in an online auction at $832,240
The Dent ‘Ultra Complication’ from 1904: with a total of 19 complications, one of the most sophisticated watches ever made
 
And…. a special mention to ressence_watches for the Type 1 Slim “Ayrton & Finlay”, designed in collaboration with the winner of the #WatchesAgainstCovid19 watch design competition, Raymond Ramsden which sold $48,400 in Hong Kong in July. Proceeds to benefit KU Leuven University’s Covid-19 Research Programme.
 
Stay tune for many more exciting unveilings in the second part of the year!
 
#SothebysWatches #AuctionRecord #RolexDaytona  #DaytonaJPS #Breguet #BreguetTourbillon #dentwatch

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dentwatch, breguet, daytonajps, breguettourbillon, watchesagainstcovid19, auctionrecord, rolexdaytona, sothebyswatches

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