So, I registered to bid on Winston Churchill's watch, and ...

richardew · Apr 25, 2017

Although it's not quite an Omega, I think of that watch as a speedy ancestor from 1946. (http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/watches-sale-l17053/lot.160.html)
The estimate was 15000-25000 GBP, not too bad I thought. The bidding opened up at 12,000 GBP and it looked like there weren't going to be any bids. I was flipping a coin trying to decide whether or not to bid 12,000 and then it happened! The first floor bid was for 50,000 GBP. It sold for 162,500 GBP! With buyer's premium, that comes to $260,000. If I had bought it I was planning to wear it too. LOL

shaun hk · Apr 25, 2017

Nice try, the last line made me chuckle. I somehow doubt the new owner will be wearing it.

efauser · Apr 25, 2017

richardew
Although it's not quite an Omega, I think of that watch as a speedy ancestor from 1946. (http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/watches-sale-l17053/lot.160.html)
The estimate was 15000-25000 GBP, not too bad I thought. The bidding opened up at 12,000 GBP and it looked like there weren't going to be any bids. I was flipping a coin trying to decide whether or not to bid 12,000 and then it happened! The first floor bid was for 50,000 GBP. It sold for 162,500 GBP! With buyer's premium, that comes to $260,000. If I had bought it I was planning to wear it too. LOL

At that price I would have had to live in it.

Psych · Apr 25, 2017

Presumably, the new owner will be wearing it on the beaches, on the landing grounds, in the hills and in the streets. He will never surrender it...

tapaptpat · Apr 25, 2017

You might have done some research here (see link below) for expectations if you were going to be wearing as you left. 😀

https://omegaforums.net/threads/sir-winston-churchills-lemania-cal-ch27-at-sothebys.55806/

Congrats to the new owner. At the very least hope, they wear it whilst enjoying a "La Coronas"

mozambique · Apr 26, 2017

$260k and he wasn't even wearing it during the battle of Britain..........

Sculler22 · Apr 26, 2017

Clearly, the intimate link to one of the free world's greatest leaders is worth a lot. Imagine what the world would be like if he hadn't been such a leader and inspirational figure.

So, I registered to bid on Winston Churchill's watch, and ...

richardew

shaun hk

efauser

Psych

tapaptpat

mozambique

Sculler22

Similar threads

Why are people from excluded countries allowed to bid on eBay?

Please tell me I was smart not to bid on this 2998