Life on the Wrist

So, Omega has released an $81,000 Speedmaster. The new Speedmaster is constructed with a new alloy for it’s case called Canopus Gold made from 18k white gold with platinum, rhodium, and palladium to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the Speedmaster. It features the legendary 321 movement, but is it all worth the price tag Omega set?

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Welcome to season 3 of the Life on the Wrist Podcast! Today we kick off the season and 2022 with a recap of Swiss watch exports for November 2021. Switzerland saw a record month of exports of CHF 2.2 billion - an amount that had not been seen since October 2014. We go through the usual results; watches by material, price category and main markets that drove the months results.

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2021 has been a wonderful year of watches for all of us. We wish you a Happy Holidays, hopefully full of watches, but most important celebrated with friends, family and loved ones. Also, I hope you all have a wonderful start to 2022 that starts off on the right foot. As always, thank you so much for all of your support this year and wonderful community you have helped build.

Cheers to 2022!

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What a crazy couple of weeks. Patek Philippe had announced earlier in the year that they were discontinuing the 5711. They decided to end the year with a bang, and release a limited edition Tiffany-blue dial Nautilus 5711, signed by Tiffany & Co to commemorate their 170-year relationship. There were only 170 released, and one of them was offered at Phillips New York. Well, it ended up selling for a total of $6.5 million. Thought a steel Nautilus couldn’t sell for that much? Think again! I discuss the result, what it means for watches (and auctions) and a recent siting of one of the extraordinarily rare watches on the wrist of a famous artist.

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Winter auction season has been an absolute blast. The Hong Kong Watch Auction XIII did not disappoint with some incredible modern and vintage pieces. Here are the five pieces we discuss in this episode:

Rolex Daytona Ref 6241 “Paul Newman John Player Special” from 1968 in 18k yellow gold. 

Cartier Cintrée from the 1930’s in 18k white gold.

Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar in Platinum from 2003.

Patek Philippe Ref 3448 “The Blue Royale” in Platinum from 1973.

Audemars Piguet Ref 6001 Steel Quartz Watch from 1974.

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As we do every year, today we pick our favourite watches that we featured in the Life on the Wrist store over the last year. This year was an incredible time full of such a varied selection of watches that were curated for the store. As we have said in the past, the watches we curated are truly watches that we find interesting, unique, special and worth adding to a collection. Interestingly, the top five watches were all vintage, but is that really surprising?

Longines Mainliner can be found here.

LeCoultre Triple Calendar Moon-phase can be found here.

Patek Philippe ref 2594 can be found here.

LeCoultre Memovox Alarm can be found here.

Omega Chronostop can be found here.

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