31 Million USD: Crazy Record Patek Philippe & Other Lots at Only Watch 2019

What a historic crazy moment we just lived with the shattering record just set for a wrist watch: 31 Million Swiss Francs for the one and only steel Grand Master Chime from Patek Philippe. A record sending a clear message that Patek is in a league of their own and nothing, absolutely nothing comes close to it!!
But some other spectacular lots also took part in this charity auction and one can say that Only Watch has definitely become the reference in terms of bringing the watch community together, both from the brand to the collector side.
Enjoy this supernatural moment and links below to some lots or brands covered previously.
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• Complex & Creative Moo...
Visiting Konstantin Chaykin in Moscow
• Visiting Konstantin Ch...
Jaeger LeCoultre (SHOWTIME: Best Of The SIHH 2019)
• SHOWTIME: Best Of The ...
Richard Mille introduces a special McLaren RM11-03 Limited Edition
• Richard Mille introduc...
Armin Strom Unveils the Pure Resonance at the 2018 SIHH
• Armin Strom Unveils th...
Ferdinand Berthoud New Regulator FB 1R.6-1 at the 2018 SIHH
• Ferdinand Berthoud New...
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[@jeromec]

Best coverage I've seen of this event! Thank you!

[@WATCHESTVcom]

Many thanks and very welcone

[@SinnerAndSaint]

Spectacular, just spectacular. Great coverage as well Marc! Thank you very much.

[@WATCHESTVcom]

👍👍👍👍 Thanks and merry christmas to you and your family!!!

[@sky173]

The hundred dollar bill in my pocket just laughed at me. lol

congratz nice achievement I got only 50 euro

[@CloroxBleachChannel]

stop flexing

[@EazyWarrior]

Wtf is a hundred? 🙃

[@Rey7430]

you guys have money..?

[@nuranuarbukhari8027]

haha..good point.

[@JDM_eastcoast]

While i am here still trying to buy a g shock watch

[@ConkreteMan]

Great coverage of some VERY nice watches. Thank you.

[@DrZbo]

Steel deserves all the love in the world. With proper treatment it's incredible.

[@ErikS-]

What a beautiful Patek watch! But what a stunning price! The previous record with the Rolex was just blown away. The great winner is a good cause. And that makes it all give a great vibe.

[@WATCHESTVcom]

Totally right 👍👍👍

[@adolf-8834]

Brilliant wrap up. Thanks.

[@SwissWatchGang]

Great recap! Thanks guys

[@WATCHESTVcom]

Many thanks for this 👍👍🙏

[@SwissWatchGang]

@@WATCHESTVcom thank you! Saw the Instagram live, was exciting! 😊

[@robv7421]

Great review, Marc Andre!

[@WATCHESTVcom]

Many thanks 🙏👍

[@albertmyers7176]

Yet one more great vid . VIVA WATCH MAKING. for sure

[@WATCHESTVcom]

Many thanks!

[@tommyb5141]

Really great outcome at the auction..... big money raised for a truly good cause..❤️ Viva.

[@WATCHESTVcom]

Yes and that’s the most important part of it 👍👍

[@SamWade]

I bet Mr.Baccs is gutted he didn't get to do this one

[@WATCHESTVcom]

Spot on ;)

[@johnimg]

Astonishing watches, incredible prices,superb report as per normal Viva Watches TV !

[@WATCHESTVcom]

Very nice of you, thanks so much 🙏

[@brendancarter3453]

I can hear tears from The fossil watch in my glovebox

[@WATCHESTVcom]

Hahaha, don't worry about it ;)

[@ghostindamachine]

Great coverage!!

[@bobbysebastian3709]

The power of watches ! this time for a good cause. Great 👍 show & coverage. Patek & Rolex still rules the watch auction world 🌎

[@WATCHESTVcom]

By far!!!!!!

[@sanjitbarman8667]

31 million wow I can't imagine...😍😍

[@Junaid_Patel]

I have witness History, ok not live but this video 👍🏻 thanks Marc

[@noelr9376]

I love the Hermes watch.

[@HermanIngram]

The guy with the phone and the baseball cap is pure class.

[@lunalea1250]

I fell in love with these watches after seeing one on 'Antiques Road Show', hoping to find one someday at my sales and auctions I attend, they are elegant, classy and timeless! 💜🤑👀

[@JKJK-zs5bt]

Thx for reporting for us who can’t make it there!

[@WATCHESTVcom]

Welcome 🙏

[@amazingfactbyjoy4064]

Great work man

[@SWatchik]

Very cool inclusion of seeing the reactions of the people! The Rexhepi Bros are cool as hell, and Francoise-henry's reaction was great too. Was that GaryG bidding on the Voutillinen pocket watch?

[@WATCHESTVcom]

Thanks and indeed that was him ;)

[@marceldavidmitchell]

Wow...I’m feeling just a tad under-resourced. Wish I could have been there live to see this worthy event.

[@manduheavyvazquez5268]

Patek rules. One the best pioneers ever. Greatness.

[@leftsidem5030]

A Lange just entered the chat group

[@guitartec]

My 1960-70's Bulova Accutron tuning fork watches have index wheels that spins 38 million times per year and have been doing it reliably since 1960. Nevermind that these watches hum instead of tick, the technology that makes up the Accutron is absolutely sick, especially from the 1960's. Converting fork vibration into rotory motion with parts so retardedly small that it has amazed countless people in the know for nearly 60 years. To this day, the closely guarded secret of how the index wheel was even made is unknown. This wheel is 2.40mm (0.095″) in diameter and has 300-320 teeth, depending on the model. Each tooth on this micro-tiny index wheel is 0.01mm high (0.0004″) and 0.02mm (0.0008″) wide. How do you make that in 1960? I have an idea, but it's only speculation, so I won't go into it unless asked. Each of the two drive coils that pulse the fork have 8100 turns of insulated wire that's about 1/3 the thickness of a human hair. How do you insulate wire that thin? I'm pretty sure dunking it in plastic dip doesn't work. These watches are soooo friggen cool, I have trouble gushing over more modern watches. I still like them, but who can afford them? I can afford an old Accutron.

[@WATCHESTVcom]

And we like the Accutron 👍

[@richardmoorman4227]

The newer precionist is an amazing timepiece

[@guitartec]

@@richardmoorman4227 Yeah, it's a nice 300M quartz chrono.

[@-Anthracite]

@@WATCHESTVcom really??? hahaha you didnt have a more sophisticated answer for this mans highly educational comment than that 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦

[@maskito4256]

Patek plays dirty games. Got that watch for themselves.

[@WATCHESTVcom]

I sincerely doubt they had to do this...

[@anonymousonlineuser6543]

@@WATCHESTVcom Let's see their tax return next year, and see the line for charity write offs.

[@GODOFLIQUOR]

Anoni.mouse same Who cares lmao the money still went to the charity and that’s all that matters

[@enriqueali]

@@GODOFLIQUOR so it's a case of win- win- WIN? The charity gets a sizeable donation, PP gets a nice tax write-off for the financial year, AND at the same time artificially boosts it's perceived brand value? Swiss Big Pharma companies ( to whom most of the research money eventually goes), the big accounting firms and the savvy PR agencies and marketing/ brand management consultancies, as well as the watch companies themselves must all be in one big self- congratulatory back- slapping fest now! And the billionaire purchasers get yet another year of bragging rights at dinner parties aboard their superyachts moored Monaco. Glad for the poor sufferers of Muscular Dystrophy though. Maybe a cure WILL eventually be found. But I'd hazard ba guess not before many more years ahead of exquisitely engineered timepieces produced and vast sums publicly exchanged for their acquisition.....

[@nodnodnod]

@@WATCHESTVcom owner has post few pic on his instagram account, he has some dope collection

[@demaobotoes8775]

one more video...one more like...tks again!!!!!! great job!

[@WATCHESTVcom]

Many thanks for this 🙏🙏

[@demaobotoes8775]

@@WATCHESTVcom tks a lot

[@bing9508]

omggggg This is so insanely good

[@johnburgess6572]

Fabulous !!!

[@jimmunsw4795]

Just superb, like buying candies 😂

[@pychang]

What a good video covering the event!! Congrats to PP but I am a little bit sad for JLC, that's a good watch, I think it deserved more😥

[@naderon]

It didn't deserve more. I love JLC (and Ferdi-B, who should have done much more with the dial). All they did was use a different enamel colour (and brown is objectively uglier than blue)

[@pychang]

@@naderon yeah you have the point, but I mean look at Tudor, all the thing they did was only changing it to Matt black 😂 And it auctioned 350k 😂

[@WATCHESTVcom]

Feels like if they lost their mojo...

[@naderon]

@@pychang Tudor/Rolex 1 of 1's are 100000x more desirable than JLC 1 of 1's. Sadly.

[@KeyKiller74]

I love that Joker watch wish there was a cheaper version of this watch love to own it one day.

[@WATCHESTVcom]

Yes, love it too

[@aymaanreza4152]

You can buy a replica

[@SpaghettiKillah]

Wooow for 31 mils I thought it's gonna be one of those pocket watches with like 60 complications ! For a wrist watch that is just a jaw dropping price 😳

[@WATCHESTVcom]

But the most complicated PP have ever made; 5 different chiming mechanism, perpetual calendar, etc. This piece is intricate to say the least!!! And unique...

[@darood77]

@@WATCHESTVcom It's so complicated that 1 drop on a concrete floor would send it back to the factory.

[@pmp1337]

@@WATCHESTVcom How do you set a perpetual calendar? Do you wind the hour dials until your are in the correct year?

[@DaOneJoel]

How does this not have 31 million likes?

[@yiannismerianos]

💵 💰! Money storm it pour millions! And every time that happens I'm holding my ☔ 😂.

[@titor8017]

Excellent work. So will you be wearing the patek or leave it in the safe? 😁Thanks for the coverage I was very curious to see how the big moment went.

[@WATCHESTVcom]

Have worn since, feels nice 😂😂

[@locutusdborg126]

@@WATCHESTVcom I won the Patek and will be wearing it as my every day "beater" watch. In an alternate dimension.

[@removebe4flight]

What a great watch

[@tonisula7626]

31 mln dollar for a watch This is insane While there are people in the world dying of hunger

[@MrJames-cr6lu]

This world is so, " Unbalanced " SMDH

[@Michel-ci8ur]

Génial..

[@wesammansour1486]

It's getting hot in here!!

[@SevenDeMagnus]

Cool. It's the Mari Antionette pocket watch on your wrist.

[@spencerhan7995]

Holy fuck. If I bought it,I would have Patek make a Platinum case for it. Of course I'd keep the original steel case if I ever sell it. So it can be put back to Original if they want.

[@bernardchupiekyong1001]

Wow 31M watch

[@paulsteele6120]

Nice little earner for the auctioneer Christie's. Looks like the guy from The WATCH.tv came his lump!

[@menaseven9093]

The Patek Philippe Grand Master Chime Stainless Steel is a wonderful watch sold at the amazing price of $31 million. The watch design is beautiful, the 21 complications of the watch that include the chime are fantastic and the two faces flip side design of the watch is very imaginative. I find it strange that the three beautifully engraved yellow gold, white gold, pink gold Patek Philippe Grand Master Chime sold for $9 million each in the past and this non engraved stainless steel sold for $31 million

[@enriqueali]

Precious metal PPs are a dime a dozen. Steel Pateks are as rare as hens teeth.

[@shinytan]

Btw 31 million swiss franc not dollar

[@ashiqahmed6597]

You rocks

[@WATCHESTVcom]

Thanks my friend ;)

[@asilva781]

My casio wrist watch cried painfully on my wrist

[@philipbyrnes7501]

Wow

[@sundayduffer]

I like your eyeglasses frame.. can you tell me the model? thx.

[@WATCHESTVcom]

We had produced a very small series with a good friend of mine and they're all gone ;) But thanks for the comment

[@alaskadiamond2946]

I'm in the market for the gold patek nautilus or aquanaut. Where can I buy one?

[@IRaoulDuke]

Were there any casios sold?

[@Dessienewshoes]

Dave Hester bought it . Yuuuuup!!!

[@MrVoayer]

I told you it was going to be me!

[@glidule]

Quel moment incroyable! J'aurais aimé y assister. L'accès est-il facile? Belle consécration pour akrivia. J'avais pu apprécier l'esprit lors de la visite de leur atelier en votre présence. Content que leur côte aille dans le bon sens. On peut réellement faire un parallèle avec le marché de l'art. Et je pense que ça n'est que le début. Pensons à ce qu'était ce marché il y a trente ans...

[@WATCHESTVcom]

Effectivement, le parallèle avec le marché de l'art devient de plus en plus évident avec cette touche irrationnelle ;) A bientôt

[@curvedreality]

Man this is rolex daytona getting OWNED

[@ljr35]

amused at all the saddos watching history through a tiny screen instead of experiencing it live and in full. Also what a strange way to auction things, very unlike auctions I'm used to in Ireland.

[@WATCHESTVcom]

Yes, understand your thought ;)

[@CJ-rb3do]

I understand your thought as well, but a lot of those phones were bloggers and watch nerds live streaming to fans. I watched on Hodinkee (live) here in the States.

[@1517the_year]

ljr35 amused at the saddos that find auctions entertaining to actually attend them.

[@timur9429]

Whats the watch youre wearing? :)

[@charelbenindram8449]

Timur AC that just costs me about a 100😂

[@thomasmoll8822]

Yes it was „entertaining”. Yes it is for a good cause. And still... It feels a bit indecent to hear a crowd cheer as millions are being tossed around as if it was toy money...

[@WATCHESTVcom]

Totally understand your point of view

[@gianpakasa]

I agree..

[@zaf240489]

It’s change money for certain people.. who are we to decide how people spend their money.

[@Fisklina]

Agreed.

[@Blueeyes2584A]

I can understand that point of view, too. However, this is the super wealthy and to them it's common place. Well, not so much common place as it is numbers they are used to dealing with. I also think they were not so much cheering the people who were bidding, as they were probably cheering how high it was going as it was a record and the complete amount being donated to muscular dystrophy. Again, just a thought. And on the flip side, they probably think what some lower or middle class people spend their hard earned money on as odd, too. In the end, to each their own.

[@DevilsAngel]

The best I could afford till now is a Tissot Seastar. But I Promise myself I’ll buy one Patek and one Rolex in this decade.

[@williamwilson7857]

you can afford anything you want, you have to learn how to generate your reality by focusing on it in the present moment...

[@5bLucky]

Bought by Patek!

[@WATCHESTVcom]

Nope, real person ;)

[@topfuel29channel]

I'll take (2) please... LoL :)

[@matthiasschnapka6498]

Marc Andre# when you announced that this 1:1 Grand Master Chimes in Steal will be for Aucrion in your last vid about this Watch I guessed that it will reach 10 Mill with ease; and your answer was, that is could come near to this figure..........so it seams, that we both got horrible wrong ! I'm a watch guy for most of my life.......and like to see high class watches........but to be honest........31Mill. for a small steel Wristwatch is just the PERVERT SIDE OF TURBO CAPITALISM ! It just reminds me a bit about the crazy tulip hosse in Neatherlands in 16th Century. This is not a healthy performance.........to high rising prices in a to short periode of time. Just my 50 Cents

[@WATCHESTVcom]

Yes, could have been much more bullish than this 10M figure!! I think we can now really compare this with the world of art and the stratospheric prices witnessed there

[@MotorbikeDesign]

I was also wondering if any of the watch companies was bidding on their own watches, just to make their brand look better. ex when Biver buys the Luis Vuitton watch (Lvmh)

[@lzd_1447]

Thomas Funder well very rare , in the end the money goes for good cause so it’s a win win in any of the case . But I think the Grand master chime went for real because it is something a lot of rich collectors want it was the only one after all . Ykwim

[@WATCHESTVcom]

Yes, think so too, but as mentioned in the vid, there are some where it's a bit more questionable...

[@MotorbikeDesign]

@@lzd_1447 Sure you are right it is a good cause, but a lot of brands would still see it as a opportunity to get attention on their brand value

[@cps7553]

Omg!

[@adolf-8834]

In all fairness, the FB dial looks like a bumper pool table with all the balls in one corner. They should have done a Luna phase watch.

[@paramjani4965]

what's the name of the gentleman who bought the patek philippe?

[@kbdw7304]

I would have thought the joker piece would go for at least 100k

[@donjuan150]

I know so unique.....however they spent over 300K on black Tudor....

[@kbdw7304]

Don Juan150 exactly

[@biohayzer]

The auctioneer was not so good for such an incredible sale but still great to watch and brilliant for charity👌🏻🤓

[@VentiVonOsterreich]

with 31 million dollars you can plant 31 million trees in the amazon

[@-JohnGalt-]

And with the thousand dollars you spent on your phone, to type your rediculous comment, you could have planted a thousand trees.

[@VentiVonOsterreich]

@@-JohnGalt- Jokes on you I'm typing this in a dollar internet cafe Yeah I'm broke

[@enriqueali]

@@-JohnGalt- how do you know how much his phone costs? You just gave yourself away with your reply as to how much YOU would consider spending on a watch.

[@CJ-rb3do]

If you are a Patek owner, you are special and in the next league above us all. Can we now say that the Richard Mille bubble is leaking air? However, I really hope all this money goes to the cause for real. I really do hope. This is madness.

[@ahmedabdellatif98]

Alright I am not gonna talk about that Patek but what' wrong with the world, $300k for a Tudor and that beauty Ferdinand Berthoud selling for less than retail, disappointing!

[@kevinzh5898]

Ahmed Abdellatif I think it’s bargain comparing 110k for a Chanel

[@siryogi1563]

For 31 million dollars that watch better be bulllet proof, able to dive with it, able to be shock resistant, have luminous hands.

[@colter2235]

Chinese be like hold my beer, i can make this for 20$

[@capt_kushal6434]

As usual buyers are discreet ...we all know who bought there watch's

[@farhaan329]

I could get that for 31$ im happy with a misspelled patek

[@tonp2917]

I think it is hard to speak of a genuine record if it was for charity. For charity buyers always go deeper inside their pockets. So, yes, a record but not only due to rarity but also because of charity.

[@WATCHESTVcom]

There's a bit of that, true, but good for the cause! Best to you

[@sonalpatel6119]

😊

[@pr0jectSkyneT]

It boggles my mind how low the JLC sold for. A far better watch than the Tudor, Hermes, Chanel, LV, etc.

[@rickj8859]

I don't know who made the watch movement, but it definitely wasn't Patek Philippe. They have no in-house capability to make tourbillons, or sonneries, let alone the grand complication watches of this type. Otherwise they would use sonneries and tourbillons movements in their usual line up ... like Jaeger LeCoultre, A Lange & Söhne, or even IWC do.

[@sabar911]

That is insane .. 💔

[@sTL45oUw]

Why are everyone recording?

[@muds1123]

Gone to a good cause which drove the price up. But to this day they still all talk about the Paul Newman Paul Newman. That will always be the one.

[@user-rf4zq9ub9b]

Holly shit 31M USD??

[@shimy333]

350K for that Tudor Black Bay is insane...must have been two rich guys not use to not getting what they want going at it....

[@siemprebmw3284]

CAN YOU PLACE A VIDEO UP OFF ALL THE PEOPLE THIS SALE WILL BE FEEDING AND HELPING WORLDWIDE .

[@joeshmoe9233]

if you had paid attention, you'd know that the proceeds go to muscular dystrophy research.

[@HermanIngram]

Jerry Lewis the millionaire raised billions and Thierry Stern the billionaire raised millions. Hmm.

[@enriqueali]

@@HermanIngram that's why one remained a millionaire, and the other gets to watch his billions grow from year to year...

[@superlameusername362]

All those phones.

[@matthiasschnapka6498]

By the way..... the owner of PP is flying with his own Gulfstream G650........now we now how he will finance it ! 😉

[@alexp3752]

The price of the Patek will only buy half of the G65O, even with a discount.

[@Skibbityboo0580]

27. 28, 29, 30, 311, 2

[@Johnyjapler1977]

PP is the best

[@paramjani4965]

I'd love to see jacob and co. breaking the record

[@gianpakasa]

Impossibile, they go 50% discounted in NY

[@paramjani4965]

@@gianpakasa yeah but that's the old collection

[@paramjani4965]

4:45 anish spotted

[@samael6333]

Mon dieu !! a ce prix là, le tarif des montres prestigieuses n'est pas près de se calmer

[@HermanIngram]

PT Barnum was right.

[@thomashelt4873]

That's my kind of"watch babycanyouget itformeiloveyou

[@Basdeyful]

Was für eine kaputte Welt!

[@MsFleshgear]

Basdeyful Hier geht es echt nur ums haben wollen und wenn sich da 2 dumme Reiche finden freut sich am Ende nur Christys darüber. Wer bitte schön ist so blöd und kauft sich für 320tsd eine Tudor . Für mich ist das der Inbegriff der ETA Ramschmarke , gefolgt von Breitling und Omega. 🙄 PP ist zudem total überbewertet, LS hat die schon längst abgelöst . Will nur keiner wahr haben. 😁

[@glotzkowski6271]

@@MsFleshgear Hallo,für was steht LS?

[@locutusdborg126]

My bid of 10K USD was rejected. And it was an all-cash bid.

[@welshcaesar]

There's a sucker born every minute.