{"id":58165,"date":"2026-04-30T10:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T10:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/58165\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T10:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T10:38:09","slug":"rare-watch-could-fetch-1-5m-at-sothebys-geneva-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/58165\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Watch Could Fetch $1.5M at Sotheby\u2019s Geneva Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sotheby\u2019s will offer an A. Lange &amp; S\u00f6hne clock watch that could realize as much as CHF 1.2 million ($1.5 million) at its upcoming Geneva auction.<\/p>\n<p>The pink gold Grande Complication timepiece, handmade in 1916 by the German watchmaker, features grande and petite sonneries, minute repeating, a perpetual calendar, and a split-second chronograph. It\u2019s the fifth watch in a limited series of nine and will go under the hammer at the May 10 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sothebys.com\/en\/buy\/auction\/2026\/important-watches-ge2601?locale=en&amp;lotFilter=AllLots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Important Watches<\/a> auction, Sotheby\u2019s said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The auction house\u2019s flagship live sale will encompass more than 150 watches, including pieces from famous designers such as Rolex, Patek Philippe and Cartier.<\/p>\n<p>Another notable timepiece at the sale is a Paul Newman John Player Special Rolex Daytona watch from 1969. A rare gold chronograph wristwatch with a bracelet, it has an upper price of CHF 850,000 ($1.1 million). An additional Rolex Daytona, a Paul Newman watch circa 1967 with a yellow gold chronograph, carries a CHF 600,000 ($760,000) high estimate.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, an F.P. Journe pink gold dual time zone wristwatch with a CHF 600,000 ($760,000) upper price tag is also on offer, as well as an F.P. Journe Octa Automatic Lune from 2009 with a CHF 600,000 ($760,000) high price.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Image: The A. Lange &amp; S\u00f6hne clock watch. (Sotheby\u2019s)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sotheby\u2019s will offer an A. Lange &amp; S\u00f6hne clock watch that could realize as much as CHF 1.2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[65,20422,10566,10366],"class_list":{"0":"post-58165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-geneva","8":"tag-geneva","9":"tag-sothebys","10":"tag-suzanne-watkin","11":"tag-top-story"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116493228546812609","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}