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Patek Philippe Henry Graves Supercomplication
The 24-complication gold pocket watch Patek Philippe made for the banker Henry Graves Jr., sold at Sotheby's Geneva in 2014 for CHF 23.2 million.
- Date
- Delivered 19 January 1933
- Reference
- No. 198.385
Plate not recorded
No photograph with documented reuse rights is held for this record.
Record
Henry Graves Jr. commissioned the watch in 1925 for 60,000 Swiss francs; it took three years to design and five to make, and was delivered on 19 January 1933. The story of a rivalry with the car maker James Ward Packard may be a later invention. After Graves died in 1953 it passed to his daughter Gwendolen and in 1960 to her son, Reginald Fullerton, who sold it in 1969 to the industrialist Seth Atwood for $200,000 for his Time Museum in Rockford, Illinois. Sotheby's sold it in New York on 2 December 1999 for $11,002,500 to a buyer later revealed as Sheikh Saud bin Muhammed Al Thani of Qatar. After his death it sold again at Sotheby's Geneva on 11 November 2014 for CHF 23,237,000, then a record for any watch.
- Culture
- Swiss
- Medium
- 18-carat gold
- Origin
- Geneva, Switzerland
In the Tapestry
- Owned by · 1999–2014
- Saud bin Muhammed Al ThaniAmedium confidence
- Made by · 1925–1933
- Patek PhilippeA
Provenance and history
1925
Commissioned by Henry Graves Jr.A
For 60,000 Swiss francs.
19 January 1933
Delivered to Henry Graves Jr.A
1969
Sold by Reginald Fullerton to Seth Atwood for the Time MuseumA
For $200,000.
2 December 1999
Sold at Sotheby's, New York, for $11,002,500A
To Sheikh Saud bin Muhammed Al Thani.
11 November 2014
Sold at Sotheby's, Geneva, for CHF 23,237,000A
Sources
- A
Wikipedia, 'Patek Philippe Henry Graves Supercomplication'
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