In our recent list of the 50 greatest watches of all time, the Patek Philippe Ref. 1518 came in at number 10, ahead of classics like the Rolex GMT-Master and the Cartier Crash. Just this week, a rare ...

Over the weekend, during a flurry of major auctions in Geneva, a Patek Philippe 1518 in steel sold for a whopping $17.6 million. That made it the second most expensive vintage wristwatch ever sold at ...

Bidders in the room at Phillips’s “Watches: Decade One” auction in Geneva today watched with high anticipation as auctioneer Aurel Bacs approached Lot 23—a Patek Philippe ref. 1518, one of just four ...

These wrist watches cost more than some cars and houses. Patek Philippe's Grandmaster Chime has become the most expensive wristwatch ever sold at auction, with a final cost of $31 million. The watch, ...

For many people, a watch does so much more than tell time — it takes them back in time. It may remind them of a cherished parent or grandparent who sported a classic timepiece, or transport them to an ...

Everyone knows that if you see a Rolex on someone’s wrist, they spent a pretty penny to put it there (or they got lucky with an heirloom). Plenty of watches cost thousands of dollars, but where things ...

Study the past two decades of wristwatch auction records and one essential fact about the high-end timepiece market will soon become clear: It is a hegemony. So much so that the dominant power hardly ...

Patek Philippe tops the list for being one of the most expensive watch brands in the world. It is also one of the top 10 Swiss watch brands with a production of 68,000 watches each year. Patak ...