Only Watch raises CHF 38,593,000 for charity
Only watch raises CHF 38,593,000 for charity, with one watch selling for CHF 31,000,000, making it the most expensive watch ever sold!
The story begins in 2004 with a father called Luc Pettavino whose late son suffered from muscular dystrophy. Pettavino had always been an active fundraiser for research into his son’s illness—a devastating myopathy that affects one in 3,000 male births—organizing events and auctions to raise money. He had some contacts in the watch industry thanks to his work at the Monaco Yacht Show and one day had the brilliant idea to create a watch-only auction called Only Watch, where all the proceeds would help further research.
Only Watch takes place every two years and this year marked the eighth edition of the auction with 50 brands taking part and CHF 38,593,000 raised for charity.
AKRIVIA
Price realised: CHF 360,000
ANDERSON GENEVE
Price realised: CHF 70,000
ARMIN STROM
Price realised: CHF 50,000
ARNOLD & SON
Price realised: CHF 26,000
ARTYA
Price realised: CHF 27,000
ATELIERS DE MONACO
Price realised: CHF 24,000
AUDEMARS PIGUET
Price realised: CHF 1,000,000
BELL & ROSS
Price realised: CHF 55,000
BLANCPAIN
Price realised: CHF 45,000
BOUCHERON
Price realised: CHF 130,000
BOVET
Price realised: CHF 280,000
BREGUET
Price realised: CHF 210,000
CARL F. BUCHERER
Price realised: CHF 60,000
CHANEL
Price realised: CHF 130,000
CHRISTOPHE CLARET
Price realised: CHF 70,000
CYRUS
Price realised: CHF 42,000
CZAPEK
Price realised: CHF 110,000
DE BETHUNE AND URWERK
Price realised: CHF 300,000
DEWITT
Price realised: CHF 45,000
F. P. JOURNE
Price realised: CHF 1,800,000
FABERGE
Price realised: CHF 70,000
FERDINAND BERTHOUD
Price realised: CHF 150’000
FREDERIQUE CONSTANT
Price realised: CHF 60,000
GIRARD-PERREGAUX
Price realised: CHF 24,000
GRONEFELD
Price realised:CHF 70,000
H. MOSER & CIE.
Price realised: CHF 48,000
HERMES
Price realised: 210,000
HUBLOT
Price realised: CHF 240,000
JACOB & CO
Price realised: CHF 75,000
JAEGER-LECOULTRE
Price realised: CHF 60’000
JAQUET DROZ
Price realised: 45,000
KONSTANTIN CHAYKIN
Price realised: CHF 70,000
LOUIS MOINET
Price realised: CHF 42,000
LOUIS VUITTON
Price realised: CHF 280,000
MAURICE LACROIX
Price realised: CHF 17,000
MB&F and L’EPEE 1839
Price realised: CHF 85,000
MONTBLANC
Price realised: CHF 100,000
MORITZ GROSSMAN
Price realised: CHF 36,000
PATEK PHILIPPE
Price realised: CHF 31,000,000
PIAGET
Price realised: CHF 48’000
REBELLION
Price realised: CHF 24,000
RICHARD MILLE
Price realised: CHF 320,000
RJ
Price realised: CHF 24,000
SINGER
Price realised: CHF 45,000
SPEAKE-MARIN
Price realised: CHF 20,000
TRILOBE
Price realised: CHF 26,000
TUDOR
Price realised: CHF 350’000
ULYSSE NARDIN
Price realised: CHF 35,000
VOUTILAINEN
Price realised: CHF 110,000
ZENITH
Price realised: CHF 75,000
“With Only Watch, everyone creates beauty to do good, meaning in this case, supporting the work of dozens of researchers around the world, financing studies, purchasing material, creating biotech companies in the chemistry and biology sector…to bring the science to the clinic and one day maybe to find a cure. We have done a lot already and are conscious that there is still much to be done and that this initiative needs, more than ever, help and support.” Luc Pettavino.
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