Watches and timepieces
Watches and wonders to discover in online auctions of watches and clocks.
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Watches and timepieces
Old and rare, vintage mechanical or automatic watches from the 1950s to 1970s are highly sought after, especially exceptional wristwatches from major French and Swiss watchmakers such as Cartier, Rolex, Patek Philippe, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Omega, Breitling, Rolex, Hublot, and more. Pocket watches, also known as fob watches — named after the vest pocket in which they were stored — remain highly prized in these online watch and horology auctions. Created in the 1500s, these timepieces, attached to a chain or ribbon, were also worn around the neck by fashionable women. These pendant watches enjoyed their golden age — or rather their golden ratio — in the 1800s. But the true golden age of horology dates back to 1657, when Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens developed a pendulum mechanism that greatly improved clock accuracy. Since then, pendulum clocks, wall-mounted cartels, and gilded bronze mantel garnitures have become masterpieces of goldsmithing as intricate as they are refined, yet still accessible through auctions on Drouot. Find the finest watch and horology auctions on Drouot.com — in Paris, throughout France, and abroad (United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, United States, etc.)
