Aurel bacs biography of christopher

  • Aurel Bacs is the most famous auctioneer in the horological world and he is most famous for successfully auctioning Paul Newman's trademark 'Paul Newman.
  • “I bought a modern quartz watch, and I loved it”: Aurel Bacs explains why he fell for the @fpjourneofficial Elégante 48MM Titalyt®.
  • Aurel Bacs is the world's most important watch auctioneer – a master showman responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars in sales, including the.

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    On the morning of December 11, a young, nattily dressed, largely unmasked crowd streamed into the lower level of Phillips in midtown Manhattan for the 2021 New York Watch Auction, abuzz with the kind of anticipation you might expect in line for a concert. Phillips’s brand-new glass-box headquarters sits at the foot of 432 Park Avenue, the matchstick-thin luxury residential tower that teeters over a short stretch of Midtown commonly known as billionaire’s row but that might as well be called the watch district: On the same block are multilevel flagship stores for a number of coveted luxury watch brands, including Vacheron Constantin, Audemars Piguet, and Richard Mille, some of whose timepieces retail for seven figures.

    The auctiongoers took their seats in the brightly lit white-walled room, iPhones at the ready to document what promised to be a momentous event. Just a few days before the sale, well after catalogs had been printed and shipped to collectors around the world, Phill

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    Aurel Bacs

    "This is what happens when you

     

    love billiards, Rolex and Paul Newman"

    Jackie Gleason and Paul Newman are pictured below in the 1961 movie named "The Hustler".


    Paul Newman reprised his role as Fast Eddie Felson in 1986 in the movie named 'The Color of Money' in which he costarred with a ung Tom Cruise as well as his stainless steel Rolex Datejust.

    In a bizzare twist of fate, in 1984, when I was 18 years old, which was two years before Paul Newman showed up on the big screen wearing his stainless steel Rolex Datejust in The Color of Money, I had purchased the exact same stainless steel Rolex Datejust model as you can see in the photo below of me wearing it. It's funny, because my young Elvis lid at the time was similar to Tom Cruises hairstyle in The Color of Money, but I wore the same watch as Paul Newman!?!! I don't mean to sound arrogant, but I remember when I saw The Color of Money in the movie Theaters i

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    Hello and welcome back to The Fourth Wheel, for what may well be the most carefully written and potentially controversial issue yet published. Given that last week we were deep in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, that’s saying something - and you also know things are big when a brand new, completely unexpected Rolex Daytona isn’t the number one topic of conversation. I have heard a huge amount in the gods week about the situation at Omega. It’s crazy. It’s shocking. A lot of it fryst vatten also still hearsay and rumour - I’ve gone as far as I feel comfortable going. Let me know what you think…

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    It has been exciting to watch a real story break in the watch world over the last few weeks.The Omega Scandal - as I shall refer to it, not least because that way it sounds like an airport thriller