While these are impressive prices paid for rare Rolex, the one that tops them all is the “Bao Dai” Rolex. This yellow gold, full calendar watch with diamond indexes is a rarity by itself, but this particular watch also comes with a Royal pedigree, as it belonged to the last Emperor of Vietnam, who apparently bought the watch in 1954 in Geneva while attending the Geneva convention. More replica Rolex watches.
While the emperor passed away in Paris in 1997, his relatives sold the watch, at Phillips, in 2002 for a then record-setting $235.000,-.
Now it was back at Phillips, and things went pretty crazy right from the start, where it took mere seconds to break the previous record for most expensive Rolex sold at auction (set at CHF 2.500.000,- about a year ago by a split-seconds ref. 4113 chronograph) and ended up at a CHF 4.300.000,- making it, for now, the most expensive Rolex ever to be auctioned.
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