Everything that is rare is expensive, they say.
Precisely, this watchmaking creation signed Cartier is one of the only known examples of a watch once commissioned by Thierry Sabine.
A watch that is basically, first and foremost, a story of friendships between the mythical creator of the Paris-Dakar rally and Alain-Dominique Perrin, the man who laid the foundations of the modern luxury industry and gave back to the house Cartier its share of luxury and dreams in the 1980s.
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This in itself explains why this 1985 Cartier Cheich was sold for 1.27 million euros at Sotheby's.
A result that also sets a new record for a Cartier watch sold at auction in Europe.
And this while the price of collector's items from the Rue de la Paix brand continues to grow.
This
"watchmaking unicorn"
, as the auction house describes it, will have more than doubled its high estimate of 400,000 euros.
“This Cheich watch has a truly unique status, not only in the history of watchmaking…
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