The Man Who Built the Empire State Building Owned This Vintage Patek Philippe. Now It’s up for Grabs.

This story is from an installment of In the Loupe, our weekly insider newsletter about the best of the watch world. Sign up here. In January, Paul Boutros, deputy chairman and head of watches in the Americas at the auctioneer Phillips, opened his inbox to discover an email from the grandson of Paul Starrett, a master builder […]

1945 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Breaks Record for Most Expensive Bottle of Wine Sold at Auction

A bottle of 1945 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (DRC) sold for a record-smashing $812,500 at Acker’s annual La Paulée Auction this weekend. The auction raked in $25 million in total sales from bottles produced by additional famed Burgundian estates like Domaine Dujac, Leflaive, Coche-Dury, and others, and set an additional, 459 unspecified world records related to pricing, according to a press…

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