This past weekend, Phillips Auctions sold off lot after lot of rare, unique and historically significant timepieces. A NASA-ordered Speedmaster prototype. A very early Breguet pilot’s chronograph. A bevy of rare Rolex Daytonas. That sort of thing. But while there wasn’t a dud in the bunch, after the hammers fell, a handful of watches rose above the rest as particularly spectacular. These three — a “Unicorn” Rolex, the King’s own Omega and one-of-a-kind A. Lange & Söhne — are undoubtedly the weekend’s highlights.
Rolex Daytona 6265 “The Unicorn”
This Daytona is called “The Unicorn” because as far as anybody knows it’s the only known vintage daytona to have a white gold case. Its potentially unique status is the reason it sold for $5.9 million dollars, making it the second most expensive Rolex to ever sell at auction. (The most expensive, by quite a lot of money, is Paul Newman’s Daytona which sold last year for $17.8 million). The best part, though, is that all those proceeds will benifit Children Action.
