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The Ref. 2499 First Series in pink gold just sold at Phillips’ Hong Kong Watch Auction: XXII today for over HK$80,370,000 (about US$10.2 million, at time of publication).

Made around 1941, the Ref. 2499 perpetual calendar chronograph embodies Patek Philippe’s mastery of complicated watchmaking long before the dawn of computer-aided design.

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did not arrive in Miami empty handed. To celebrate the Reverso Stories Pop-Up in the Miami Design District, the Maison debuted three new timepieces: the Reverso Tribute Monoface Or Deco Series, the Reverso Hybris Artistica Calibre 179 Pegasus, and the Duometre Heliotourbillon Perpetual in Platinum.

Head to HauteTime.com to discover more about these watches and if you haven’t made it to the Reverso Stories Pop-Up, it is open until May 31st.

A at the new Calatrava Alarm Ref. 5322G-010 with a textured lacquered green dial with black-gradient rim, white gold applied numerals with luminescent coating.

This Calatrava Grand Complication features a 24-hour alarm function that can be set intuitively, and powered by the self-winding AL 30-660 S C caliber that elegantly strikes a classic gong with a single hammer.

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Markedly different from the predominantly round timepieces, the Cabaret was first introduced in 1997, only a few years after the revival of the brand in 1994 by Walter Lange and Günter Blümlein.

Named “Cabaret” in reference to its Art Deco-inspired geometry, the rectangular timepiece pairs architectural symmetry with the manufacture’s signature outsize date display. Over the years, the model line has also seen tourbillon and moonphase interpretations.

Now, for the first time since the exquisite Cabaret Tourbillon Handwerkskunst of 2021, A. Lange & Söhne has unveiled a new Cabaret Tourbillon at the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este on the shores of Lake Como.

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Our favorite kind of duo: the new Octo Finissimos ⌚️

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and have officially broken the internet as the two have joined forces on the Royal Pop, a collection of eight Bioceramic pocket watches that takes two of the most recognizable design languages in Swiss watchmaking and pushes them somewhere neither brand has gone before.

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