Artcurial To Host Auctions In Monaco Featuring High Jewelry, Men’s And Women’s Watches

It’s summertime in Monaco, a season the place day by day life actually heats up for the residents and guests on this famed principality that earns its repute a hub for luxurious. It’s additionally a time the place the Parisian public sale home, Artcurial, hosts a weeklong sequence of auctions. Included in these gross sales are jewellery and watch choices, all being held on the Hôtel Hermitage.

Jewellery

A sale of excessive jewellery and assertion gems will probably be held over a three-day interval July 18 – 20. The highest merchandise among the many 460 tons being provided is a 17.5-carat D-color emerald-cut diamond with an estimate of $1 million – $1.5 million.

One other vital gem being provided is a 12.39-carat fancy intense yellow diamond mounted on a hoop between two triangle diamonds weighing 1.36 and 1.35 carats. Its estimate is $300,000 – $350,000.

The sale additionally contains interval jewels and signed items representing greater than a century of knickknack design, weighted towards a powerful group of French Artwork Nouveau and Artwork Deco jewels.

Among the many most vital tons are three items of matching emerald and diamond jewels by mid-Twentieth century Parisian jeweler, Guillemin & Soulaine. The highest lot on this group is an emerald, diamond, platinum and 18k yellow gold bracelet with an estimate of $180,000 – $250,000.

One other piece by Guillemin & Soulaine is a sapphire, diamond, platinum and 18k white gold necklace, circa 1970. Its estimate is $80,000 – $120,000.

A 3rd vital piece is a finely design Artwork Nouveau Pendant-Brooch attributed to Georges Fouquet, circa 1898, impressed by a well-known drawing by Alphonse Mucha depicting the legendary actress Sarah Bernhardt as Mélissande in Edmond Rostand’s play La Princesse lointaine. Its estimate is $22,000 – $25,000.

Different notable interval jewels embody:

• An Artwork Nouveau enamel, pearl and diamonds choker with an estimate of $25,000 – $35,000;
• A butterfly brooch, set with diamonds, rubies, sapphires, emeralds and pearls, late nineteenth century, with an estimate of $15,000 – $20,000;
• A diamond bracelet, circa 1930, with an estimate of $15,000 – $20,000;
• A René Boivin “Feuille Persanne” brooch, circa 1935-1937, with an estimate of $6,000 – 8,000; and
• A Boucheron diamond clip, circa 1930, with an estimate of $4,500 – $5,500.

As with most vital jewellery auctions, the sale will embody items from prestigious jewellery homes, reminiscent of Cartier, Van Cleef, Bulgari, Chaumet, Boucheron, Buccelatti and Boivin.

Males’s Superb Watches

On July 18, Artcurial will host a males’s nice watch sale. The highest lot among the many 100 being provided is a single-owner Richard Mille RM003 Tourbillon Twin Time Zone wristwatch in white gold, bought in 2002, with an estimate of $450,000 – $650,000.

No watch public sale is full with out vital Rolex and Patek Philippe items and this sale has many. The highest tons amongst these extremely sought-after watch manufacturers are a platinum Rolex Daytona computerized chronograph (ref. 116506) with a diamond-covered dial. It options an oyster platinum bracelet with deployant clasp. Its estimate is $200,00 – $300,000. The opposite is a Patek Philippe Nautilus (ref. 5740/IG-001) 18k white gold computerized perpetual calendar and moon phases wristwatch with date, white gold bracelet with deployant clasp. Its estimate is $200,000 – $400,000.

Different notable choices embody an Audemars Piguet (ref. 5513) yellow gold watch offered to Cartier Paris in Could 1960 with an estimate of $150,000 – $250,000; and a Henri Verneuil’s Gérald Genta yellow gold watch with perpetual calendar and minute repeater, circa 1990, with an estimate of $30,000 – $50,000;

As well as, there’s an early Mido Watch in 18k yellow gold watch with guide motion. It is among the first watches for motorists produced by the Swiss watchmaker for the Bugatti vehicle model. Produced between 1925 and 1926, its estimate is $15,000 – $20,000. The gold buckle and a dial are within the form of a Bugatti radiator grille. It was given by Bugatti to Robert Grosse, a distinguished racing driver from the Twenties. The watch has remained within the household of Robert Grosse for the previous century and is obtainable by his direct descendants.

A Longines 18k yellow gold and enamel guide winding pocket watch with an estimate of $6,000 – $8,000. The dial in blue and inexperienced enamel is inscribed with a prayer for the Prophet Muhammad. It was invoiced in 1912 to Kramer, Longines’ solely agent in Egypt and supplier to the final Khedive (Ottoman viceroy) of Egypt and Sudan, Abbas II of Egypt.

The Glowing Assortment

In a uncommon public sale second, Artcurial will host two watch gross sales devoted to girls’s watches.

On July 17, is a sale titled, “The Glowing Assortment,” is single-owner public sale of 77 tons. The sale is led by a gaggle of 15 watches by Piaget, lots of that are iconic coloured, exhausting stone dial watches from the late Nineteen Sixties and early Nineteen Seventies.

Among the many highlights is a malachite and yellow gold cuff watch, circa 1970, provided with matching ring, sautoir and pendant earrings with an estimate of $80,000 – $120,000. Solely eight units in the identical design have been produced by the Swiss luxurious model between 1970 and 1976.

Different Piaget highlights embody a coral and yellow gold cuff watch, circa 1970, one in all solely 15 with decorative exhausting stone dials created between 1969 and 1971 with an estimate of $60,000 – $80,000; and a manchette watch in yellow gold, sapphire and lapis lazuli, circa 1968, with an estimate of $60,000 – $80,000.

One other standout piece within the assortment is a Cartier diamonds and onyx Artwork Deco watch, circa 1925, with an estimate of $15,000 – $20,000; and a 1972 Boucheron watch in diamonds and yellow gold with an estimate of $15,000 – $20,000.

Time Is Female

The second girls’s watch public sale is titled, “Le temps est féminin” (Time is female), being held on July 19. It showcases a choice of classic and trendy timepieces. together with Nautilus and Aquanaut fashions by Patek Philippe. Among the many highlights:

• A Patek Philippe’s parure in diamonds, onyx and coral, circa Nineteen Seventies, composed of a watch, necklace and bracelet (est. $60,000 – $100,000).
• A 1964 Omega “secret watch” in yellow gold, sapphires and emeralds (est. $15,000 – $20,000); and
• A 1958 yellow gold Duoplan watch by Jaeger Lecoultre (est. $5,000 – $7,000);

Artcurial’s “Monaco Public sale Week” will probably be held July 15 until 22 and likewise contains gross sales of vital sculptures, luxurious purses and a choice of comedian strips by 20^th century artist Enki Bilal.