Felix Scholz
It's been a week of milestones, both minor and major. A Patek Philippe became the most expensive watch ever sold at auction (again), the 2016 GPHG awards were announced (well done to all the winners) and Andrew clocked up?a significant birthday. All occasions to celebrate. Prost!What happenedThe new ‘most expensive wristwatch ever’In what feels these days like a bi-annual update, we now have a new most expensive wristwatch ever sold at auction', and yup, it's another stainless steel Patek Philippe. The watch in question –?one of only four reference 1518s ever made – sold in 13 minutes for the mind-boggling sum of $11,002,000 including buyers’ fee (that's more than $14.5 million AUD).2015’s ‘most expensive wristwatch ever’, as shot (and held) by us in Hong Kong. Any guesses on 2017?This figure far eclipses the?7.3 million CHF that a?Patek 5016A-010 sold?for at Only Watch last year. Now, we'd normally propose things that are a better buy than a single watch, but today let's flip it.Image: MilitaryEdge.orgWe'd rather have one steel Patek than nine RGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missiles. We'd only cause trouble with them.Nauru. Image: globalresearch.caWe'd much prefer this watch than to keep 29 asylum seekers on Manus or Nauru for a year. Seriously, anything is better than that.Barrier fence in Nogales, Arizona. Image:?huffingtonpost We'd rather have this rare and fine Patek instead of roughly four miles of Trump's Mexican wall (based on a 2006 estimated cost of $3 million per mile).We'd also take the Patek instead of 10 minutes of Kevin Costner's 1995 epic bellyflop,?Waterworld according to our crude cost-per-minute maths. (It cost $236m AUD) ((In 1995))What matteredIn a sneaky late release Tudor unveiled the Pelagos LHD – a left-handed take on their technical diver. The dial also got a?vintage make-over (or is that make-older?), with gently faded lume and a numbered caseback, referencing Submariners the brand supplied to the French navy.The week in numbers7: American Presidents who (may) have owned a?Corum Coin watch. President-elect Trump will apparently soon be added to the list.5: Super moonphases we picked for the super moon. Pity the moon itself was playing hard-to-get. Stupid clouds.40: Doubts we had about the legitimacy of this Rolex GMT. Those colours are wrong and the logo is off. Tasty though.
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