2019
Except otherwise stated, all results include the premium.
See also : Cui Ruzhuo Time pieces Patek Philippe New watches OnlyWatch
See also : Cui Ruzhuo Time pieces Patek Philippe New watches OnlyWatch
2019 Patek Philippe 6300A-010
2019 SOLD for CHF 31M by Christie's for OnlyWatch
In 2014, for celebrating the 175th anniversary of the brand, Patek Philippe release their first Grandmaster Chime wristwatch under the reference 5175 edited in seven units. Its 20 functions required 1,366 components for the movement and 215 components for the case, surpassing the 6200 Sky Moon Tourbillon. It is the achievement of 60,000 hours of development over seven years.
The 5175 is 48 mm in diameter and 16 mm in height with 11 pushers and buttons. Its central mechanism activates in parallel the visual reading on two dials including the perpetual calendar, the chimes of hours, quarters, minutes and day, and the acoustic alarm preselected with an accuracy of a quarter of an hour. The running time of the mechanical winding is 72 hours in silent mode and 30 hours in grande sonnerie.
Two of these applications are unprecedented : the insertion of an alarm in a wristwatch, and the audible indication of the day in the month in two digits covering 1 to 31 by the tens and units. The watch also strikes on demand the current hour and minute. A security prevents the user from operating two mechanisms at the same time if they are not compatible.
The reference 6300G in gray gold launched in 2016 is similar to the 5175 except that the references to the celebration have been removed.
The Only Watch charity sale is held every second year since 2005 for the benefit of the research on the Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The 2019 auction is managed by Christie's in Geneva on November 9.
According to the rules applicable to this operation, each manufacturer offers a watch for which it guarantees that it is and will remain a one-off. On this year Patek Philippe supplies the unique copy of Grandmaster Chime in stainless steel, reference 6300A-010, lot 28 estimated CHF 2.5M. The steel improves the sound. It is inscribed "The Only One" on one of the dials. It was sold for CHF 31M.
The lot includes a one-day private tour of the workshops and museum for two people and a lunch with Thierry Stern, president of Patek Philippe.
The 5175 is 48 mm in diameter and 16 mm in height with 11 pushers and buttons. Its central mechanism activates in parallel the visual reading on two dials including the perpetual calendar, the chimes of hours, quarters, minutes and day, and the acoustic alarm preselected with an accuracy of a quarter of an hour. The running time of the mechanical winding is 72 hours in silent mode and 30 hours in grande sonnerie.
Two of these applications are unprecedented : the insertion of an alarm in a wristwatch, and the audible indication of the day in the month in two digits covering 1 to 31 by the tens and units. The watch also strikes on demand the current hour and minute. A security prevents the user from operating two mechanisms at the same time if they are not compatible.
The reference 6300G in gray gold launched in 2016 is similar to the 5175 except that the references to the celebration have been removed.
The Only Watch charity sale is held every second year since 2005 for the benefit of the research on the Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The 2019 auction is managed by Christie's in Geneva on November 9.
According to the rules applicable to this operation, each manufacturer offers a watch for which it guarantees that it is and will remain a one-off. On this year Patek Philippe supplies the unique copy of Grandmaster Chime in stainless steel, reference 6300A-010, lot 28 estimated CHF 2.5M. The steel improves the sound. It is inscribed "The Only One" on one of the dials. It was sold for CHF 31M.
The lot includes a one-day private tour of the workshops and museum for two people and a lunch with Thierry Stern, president of Patek Philippe.
2019 CUI RUZHUO
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Rafting in Wind and Rain
2023 SOLD for RMB 230M by Yongle
Rafting in wind and rain, ink and color on paper 395 x 255 cm painted in 2019 by Cui Ruzhuo, features a boat brought home in harsh condition in a mountain surrounding.
It was sold for RMB 230M by Yongle on February 24, 2023.
It was sold for RMB 230M by Yongle on February 24, 2023.
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Cold Blue Autumn Water
2019 SOLD for RMB 138M by Poly
Painted by Cui Ruzhuo in 2019, a 37 x 1030 cm handscroll featuring a lotus pond with the cold blue clear autumn water and beautiful colors in the sky was sold for RMB 138M by Poly on December 2, 2019, lot 1300.
2019 Richard Mille RM 52-01
2022 SOLD for € 5.5M by Antiquorum
The Richard Mille company was established in 2001 with the support of Audemars Piguet for advanced high end hand watchmaking. It offers wristwatches of very high performance, often associating with its models the sponsorship of a sports champion. Extreme technologies bring weightlessness, transparency and robustness against severe environment.
The release in 2012 of the RM 056 - Felipe Massa (a Formula One driver) in a limited edition of five was an event in terms of watchmaking innovation. Its price tag was about $ 1.7M. The three elements that make up the case of this split-seconds chronograph are transparent with an absolute clarity, allowing the user to see from any angle the movement of the tourbillon through the skeletonized lower part of the dial.
The transparent material is a sapphire crystal, resistant to any scratch, graded 9 on the Mohs scale. The machining and polishing of a sapphire piece takes several hundred hours. The use of titanium is extended to all mechanical components and to the baseplate. The case is water resistant to 50 meters. The high-precision sapphire crystal and titanium movement is unaffected by temperature or wear.
On June 21, 2017, Christie's sold for $ 1.2M the prototype No. 2 of the RM 056, made in 2012, lot 228. The number of prototypes realized for that model before the production run has not been disclosed. Afterward an edition of only five RM 56 was released.
The RM 56-01 has its baseplate and its third hand in sapphire. An RM 056-01 made in 2013 was sold for CHF 3.65M by Christie's on November 6, 2022, lot 2096. Its transparent dial has a titanium minute ring and luminous hour indexes.
After the RM 27-01 - Rafael Nadal of 2013, the RM 56-02 released in 2015 incorporates an improvement in the titanium suspension of the movement on the baseplate.
RM 56-02 is a limited edition of 10. Its original price tag was over CHF 2 million. An example serviced by the company in 2023 was sold for $ 3M by Christie's on June 10, 2024, lot 50.The reference RM 52-01 chronometer wristwatch is a synthesis of the RM 52 tourbillon skull of 2012 and of the tourbillon sapphire RM 56-01 of 2013. The RM 52 had been produced in 21 pieces.
52-01 was made by Richard Mille of a unique example assembled on special order in 2019. It is nicknamed the Vanitas Vanitatum.
The titanium opening to the skeletonized movement is skull shaped. The jawbone and the mandible enclose the ruby of the tourbillon carriage. The movement is linked to the case by four bridges shaped as the crossed bones in the flags of pirate ships. The case is made of an unprecedented brown sapphire.
52-01 is larger than its predecessors : 19 mm thick, 42 mm in diameter. It is weighing 127 grams.
This modernized memento mori was sold for € 5.5M by Antiquorum on July 19, 2022, lot 373.
The release in 2012 of the RM 056 - Felipe Massa (a Formula One driver) in a limited edition of five was an event in terms of watchmaking innovation. Its price tag was about $ 1.7M. The three elements that make up the case of this split-seconds chronograph are transparent with an absolute clarity, allowing the user to see from any angle the movement of the tourbillon through the skeletonized lower part of the dial.
The transparent material is a sapphire crystal, resistant to any scratch, graded 9 on the Mohs scale. The machining and polishing of a sapphire piece takes several hundred hours. The use of titanium is extended to all mechanical components and to the baseplate. The case is water resistant to 50 meters. The high-precision sapphire crystal and titanium movement is unaffected by temperature or wear.
On June 21, 2017, Christie's sold for $ 1.2M the prototype No. 2 of the RM 056, made in 2012, lot 228. The number of prototypes realized for that model before the production run has not been disclosed. Afterward an edition of only five RM 56 was released.
The RM 56-01 has its baseplate and its third hand in sapphire. An RM 056-01 made in 2013 was sold for CHF 3.65M by Christie's on November 6, 2022, lot 2096. Its transparent dial has a titanium minute ring and luminous hour indexes.
After the RM 27-01 - Rafael Nadal of 2013, the RM 56-02 released in 2015 incorporates an improvement in the titanium suspension of the movement on the baseplate.
RM 56-02 is a limited edition of 10. Its original price tag was over CHF 2 million. An example serviced by the company in 2023 was sold for $ 3M by Christie's on June 10, 2024, lot 50.The reference RM 52-01 chronometer wristwatch is a synthesis of the RM 52 tourbillon skull of 2012 and of the tourbillon sapphire RM 56-01 of 2013. The RM 52 had been produced in 21 pieces.
52-01 was made by Richard Mille of a unique example assembled on special order in 2019. It is nicknamed the Vanitas Vanitatum.
The titanium opening to the skeletonized movement is skull shaped. The jawbone and the mandible enclose the ruby of the tourbillon carriage. The movement is linked to the case by four bridges shaped as the crossed bones in the flags of pirate ships. The case is made of an unprecedented brown sapphire.
52-01 is larger than its predecessors : 19 mm thick, 42 mm in diameter. It is weighing 127 grams.
This modernized memento mori was sold for € 5.5M by Antiquorum on July 19, 2022, lot 373.
2019 Comedian by Cattelan
2024 SOLD for $ 6.2M by Sotheby's
Maurizio Cattelan reuses Duchamp's concept of the ready made, sometimes combined with happenings. In 1999 A Perfect Day features a real art dealer fastened to a wall of a gallery with a duct tape.
Comedian was executed in 2019 in a series of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs. The three were exhibited at Art Basel Miami by Galerie Perrotin with a price tag of $ 120K each.
The physical art is made of a fresh banana duct taped on a 20 x 20 cm support hanged to a wall. Two bananas were sold during the fair, one of these being immediately eaten in a happening by its owner stating that any meaningful interaction with an object could turn it to art. Some later examples of eating and replacing of Comedian bananas are referred in Wikipedia. The banana and the duct tape can be replaced as needed.
This artwork is a mocking by the artist about the mercantile aspect of an art fair where he could sell a banana like others sell their paintings. Art is indeed a comedy. The title, Comedian, is possibly a reference to Two Comedians painted in 1966 by Hopper in which the aging artist and his wife are on stage to make their final bow. Two Comedians was sold for $ 12.5M by Sotheby's in 2018.
The Comedian number 2 was sold for $ 6.2M from a lower estimate of $ 1M by Sotheby's on November 21, 2024, lot 10. The video is shared by the auction house. The fruit, which had been purchased for 25 cents to an identified fruit vendor, was eaten after the sale in a press conference by its new owner, a cryptocurrency businessman supporting the artist's statement that the real piece of art is the concept.
A previous example of edible art is Candies, executed by Gonzalez Torres in 1991. This endless accumulation was sold for $ 7.7M by Christie's in 2015. The pick and use of an element brings to the visitor the noise of the unwrapping and the sweet taste of the candy.
Comedian was executed in 2019 in a series of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs. The three were exhibited at Art Basel Miami by Galerie Perrotin with a price tag of $ 120K each.
The physical art is made of a fresh banana duct taped on a 20 x 20 cm support hanged to a wall. Two bananas were sold during the fair, one of these being immediately eaten in a happening by its owner stating that any meaningful interaction with an object could turn it to art. Some later examples of eating and replacing of Comedian bananas are referred in Wikipedia. The banana and the duct tape can be replaced as needed.
This artwork is a mocking by the artist about the mercantile aspect of an art fair where he could sell a banana like others sell their paintings. Art is indeed a comedy. The title, Comedian, is possibly a reference to Two Comedians painted in 1966 by Hopper in which the aging artist and his wife are on stage to make their final bow. Two Comedians was sold for $ 12.5M by Sotheby's in 2018.
The Comedian number 2 was sold for $ 6.2M from a lower estimate of $ 1M by Sotheby's on November 21, 2024, lot 10. The video is shared by the auction house. The fruit, which had been purchased for 25 cents to an identified fruit vendor, was eaten after the sale in a press conference by its new owner, a cryptocurrency businessman supporting the artist's statement that the real piece of art is the concept.
A previous example of edible art is Candies, executed by Gonzalez Torres in 1991. This endless accumulation was sold for $ 7.7M by Christie's in 2015. The pick and use of an element brings to the visitor the noise of the unwrapping and the sweet taste of the candy.
2019 Dunhuang Pipa Necklace by Anna Hu
2019 SOLD for HK$ 45M by Sotheby's
In the last century, Cartier had understood that a gemstone must be assembled in an environment that highlights it. Contemporary designers have a similar approach.
Born in Taiwan and working in New York, Anna Hu has a global vision of art and its history. She had to give up a cellist career because of an accident, and brings to her jewelry creations an intense musical inspiration. A brooch named Côte d'Azur was sold for CHF 4.2M by Christie's on November 12, 2013.
In a coordinated operation with Sotheby's, Anna Hu created five new jewels to be sold individually in Hong Kong on October 7, 2019. She introduces these works and her art in the video shared by the auction house.
The most important piece in terms of carats is the Dunhuang Pipa Necklace, lot 1713 sold for HK $ 45M. It is built around a fancy intense yellow diamond, internally flawless, weighing 100.02 carats. The diamond is an almost rectangular cushion centered on a bed of small white diamonds that takes the shape of a traditional Chinese lute. The necklace of diamonds is detachable, allowing the use of the pipa as a brooch or an earring.
A fancy intense yellow cannot reach the $ 200K per carat of a flawless fancy vivid yellow. A fancy intense yellow of perfect clarity weighing 43.51 carats was sold for $ 2.85M, $ 66K per carat, on September 8, 2011 in Cleveland at a police auction. It had been seized to a gangster who had enjoyed its saturated canary color.
Born in Taiwan and working in New York, Anna Hu has a global vision of art and its history. She had to give up a cellist career because of an accident, and brings to her jewelry creations an intense musical inspiration. A brooch named Côte d'Azur was sold for CHF 4.2M by Christie's on November 12, 2013.
In a coordinated operation with Sotheby's, Anna Hu created five new jewels to be sold individually in Hong Kong on October 7, 2019. She introduces these works and her art in the video shared by the auction house.
The most important piece in terms of carats is the Dunhuang Pipa Necklace, lot 1713 sold for HK $ 45M. It is built around a fancy intense yellow diamond, internally flawless, weighing 100.02 carats. The diamond is an almost rectangular cushion centered on a bed of small white diamonds that takes the shape of a traditional Chinese lute. The necklace of diamonds is detachable, allowing the use of the pipa as a brooch or an earring.
A fancy intense yellow cannot reach the $ 200K per carat of a flawless fancy vivid yellow. A fancy intense yellow of perfect clarity weighing 43.51 carats was sold for $ 2.85M, $ 66K per carat, on September 8, 2011 in Cleveland at a police auction. It had been seized to a gangster who had enjoyed its saturated canary color.
2016-2019 Lidless Eye by Ghenie
2023 SOLD for HK$ 43M by Christie's
From 2016 Ghenie revisits his beloved Self portrait as Vincent van Gogh in two series titled Degenerate Art and Lidless Eye.
A Lidless Eye dated 2016-2019 on the reverse, oil on canvas 185 x 170 cm, was sold for HK $ 43M by Christie's on November 28, 2023, lot 92.
It is based on the same original self portrait whose 2016 reinterpretation in the Degenerate Art series was sold for $ 9.3M by Sotheby's in 2022.
A Lidless Eye dated 2016-2019 on the reverse, oil on canvas 185 x 170 cm, was sold for HK $ 43M by Christie's on November 28, 2023, lot 92.
It is based on the same original self portrait whose 2016 reinterpretation in the Degenerate Art series was sold for $ 9.3M by Sotheby's in 2022.
2019 Las Meninas by Leigh
2023 SOLD for $ 3.1M by Sotheby's
In her sculptures Simone Leigh mingles reminders of African tribal art with recognizable themes of European art. In 2019 two works refer two the famous silhouette of the Infanta in Las Meninas by Velazquez. The five year old girl is standing straight in a stiff bodice over a pannier skirt. She is proud in that attire which is completely obsolete in modern times.
Leigh's Las Meninas displays the white glazed nude torso of a fully grown woman, fists on the hips, planted over the extravagant raffia skirt which reminds an African hut. The faceless head is a rosette. This cumbersome sculpture 183 x 213 x 152 cm is held by the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Las Meninas II is a replica 182 x 197 x 158 cm made in the same materials in the same year for an exhibition in Cape Town. It was sold for $ 3.1M from a lower estimate of $ 2.5M by Sotheby's on May 19, 2023, lot 7.
Stick is a bronze 216 x 160 x 160 cm displaying a nude African woman down to the waist, over the ogival skirt planted with the spikes of an African nail fetish. The Afro hair reminds the US activist Angela Davis. The missing arms may refer to the Venus de Milo. The number 2 from an edition of three plus an artist's proof was sold for $ 2.7M by Christie's on May 15, 2023, lot 4B.
Leigh's Las Meninas displays the white glazed nude torso of a fully grown woman, fists on the hips, planted over the extravagant raffia skirt which reminds an African hut. The faceless head is a rosette. This cumbersome sculpture 183 x 213 x 152 cm is held by the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Las Meninas II is a replica 182 x 197 x 158 cm made in the same materials in the same year for an exhibition in Cape Town. It was sold for $ 3.1M from a lower estimate of $ 2.5M by Sotheby's on May 19, 2023, lot 7.
Stick is a bronze 216 x 160 x 160 cm displaying a nude African woman down to the waist, over the ogival skirt planted with the spikes of an African nail fetish. The Afro hair reminds the US activist Angela Davis. The missing arms may refer to the Venus de Milo. The number 2 from an edition of three plus an artist's proof was sold for $ 2.7M by Christie's on May 15, 2023, lot 4B.
2019 Bugatti Chiron Sport
Intro
The performances of the supercars are more and more amazing. These road going models now arrive at auction in the months following the first deliveries. After the Bugatti Veyron, the LaFerrari and the LaFerrari Aperta came the Bugatti Chiron.
The Chiron has the same engine as the Veyron, 8 liters with 16 cylinders in W. For the rest it benefits from all the improvements imagined by the brand in its ten years of experience of the Veyron. It is taller and wider, for a better comfort and an impeccable handling up to the highest speed and in braking.
The top speed of the Chiron was early electronically limited to 420 km/h for remaining below the critical threshold of tire wear but the brand lets know that studies are ongoing to go faster. At maximum speed the fuel tank gets dry in 7 minutes. Driven on the road by Juan Pablo Montoya, a Chiron was timed in 41.96 seconds on the maneuver 0 - 400 km/h - 0, over a total distance of only 3,112 m. The story will not stop at that point. These Bugatti records were beaten or threatened by Koenigsegg.
The model had been unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2016 and a total production target of 500 vehicles was announced, to be spread over several years starting in 2017. For that first year it is estimated that 70 Chiron have been delivered.
The first Chiron exported to the USA was sold for $ 3.8M by RM Sotheby's on December 6, 2017, lot 137. Not yet registered, it had only run at that time the 400 km of its factory tests. It is titled 2018. A Chiron with less than 1,000 Km from new was sold for € 3,3M by RM Sotheby's on February 7, 2018, lot 151.
Released in 2018, the Chiron Sport is a sub-series of 60 cars focused for the track. Its chassis improvements enable a better cornering ability. The 110 Ans Bugatti is a 2019 sub-variant of 20 Chiron Sport with French flag colors in some elements including the rear wing.
The Chiron has the same engine as the Veyron, 8 liters with 16 cylinders in W. For the rest it benefits from all the improvements imagined by the brand in its ten years of experience of the Veyron. It is taller and wider, for a better comfort and an impeccable handling up to the highest speed and in braking.
The top speed of the Chiron was early electronically limited to 420 km/h for remaining below the critical threshold of tire wear but the brand lets know that studies are ongoing to go faster. At maximum speed the fuel tank gets dry in 7 minutes. Driven on the road by Juan Pablo Montoya, a Chiron was timed in 41.96 seconds on the maneuver 0 - 400 km/h - 0, over a total distance of only 3,112 m. The story will not stop at that point. These Bugatti records were beaten or threatened by Koenigsegg.
The model had been unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2016 and a total production target of 500 vehicles was announced, to be spread over several years starting in 2017. For that first year it is estimated that 70 Chiron have been delivered.
The first Chiron exported to the USA was sold for $ 3.8M by RM Sotheby's on December 6, 2017, lot 137. Not yet registered, it had only run at that time the 400 km of its factory tests. It is titled 2018. A Chiron with less than 1,000 Km from new was sold for € 3,3M by RM Sotheby's on February 7, 2018, lot 151.
Released in 2018, the Chiron Sport is a sub-series of 60 cars focused for the track. Its chassis improvements enable a better cornering ability. The 110 Ans Bugatti is a 2019 sub-variant of 20 Chiron Sport with French flag colors in some elements including the rear wing.
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2022 SOLD for $ 3.36M by RM Sotheby's
A 2019 Bugatti Chiron Sport delivered to the USA was sold for $ 3.36M by RM Sotheby's on March 5, 2022, lot 133, with 3,950 miles from new.
It is factory finished in a combination of Nocturne paint over a two-tone interior of Beluga Black and Italian Red leather accented with satin carbon fiber.
It is factory finished in a combination of Nocturne paint over a two-tone interior of Beluga Black and Italian Red leather accented with satin carbon fiber.
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2022 SOLD for $ 3.3M by RM Sotheby's
A 2019 Bugatti Chiron Sport delivered to the USA was sold for $ 3.3M by RM Sotheby's on December 10, 2022, lot 126, with 2,188 miles from new.
