There are enough celebrity sightings daily on social media to hook the watch lover. When we zoom into David Beckham’s gold dive watch (Tudor Black Bay 58) as he aces the summer look in his Wimbledon Royal Box seat. Or note Tom Cruise’s rectangular Cartier Santos de Cartier and Vacheron Constantin Overseas Perpetual Calendar Ultra Thin, both old favourites, on his latest ‘Mission: Impossible’ press tour. Or Max Verstappen’s custom TAG Heuer Monaco at the Austrian Grand Prix podium. But if it is eccentric meters d’art dials, a whole lot of daring and world records for watch prices that one is after, nothing serves like the Only Watch line-up.
This year’s edition of the most anticipated watch auction worldwide, scheduled for November 5 in Geneva, has its share of quirk from the 73 watchmakers and brands participating. Take Swiss brand Angelus, known for its groundbreaking mid-century chronographs, which has roped in Château Angelus, an exceptional wine from the Bordeaux terroir. The dial of the Chronodate Gold x Château Angelus is made from freeze-dried lees from the 2022 vintage, the powdered wine giving the dial both texture and colour. It is certainly posher, though, at present an estimate of CHF 50,000 to 60,000 (approximately ₹46 lakh to ₹55 lakh), cheaper than H. Moser’s Swiss Mad Watch made of real Swiss cheese back in 2017.
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