Think about it, would 11 Richard Miller watches in different colors trigger the collecting habit of the rich?
Anyway, Xia Yu doesn’t have any. He has no feelings for Richard Miller’s designs. He still likes round dials. After all, classics never go out of style!
"Dad, what do you think of this Patek Philippe 3979?"
Xia Yu pointed at the booklet and asked Old Xia.
“Isn’t this the 150th anniversary model?”
Old Xia also knew this watch. Ever since Xia Yu bought him three or five watches, he had taken the time to learn a lot about luxury watches.
This 3979 is a commemorative model specially created by Patek Philippe for its 150th anniversary. It is also its first self-winding minute repeater watch and has a special status.
From its launch in 1989 to its discontinuation in 1998, only 100 pieces were produced, and less than 12 of them were packaged in platinum, making them even rarer and more collectible.
No matter how much it has collection value, it is still a watch. Once you buy it, you wear it. Xia Yu is such a pragmatic person.
"It looks good to me. Simple yet dignified. It suits your temperament, Dad."
Old Xia was very pleased to hear Xia Yu's flattery, but when he thought about it carefully, he found something wrong. This kid wanted to spend money again.
"Dad, don't look at me like that. We're all here now, so we can't go back empty-handed, right? You and Mom have a share."
Lin Shuqin doesn't have the habit of wearing a watch, so Xia Yu wasn't talking about this one.
Watches only cost a few dollars, but the really expensive things are jewelry, which can cost tens of millions or even hundreds of millions, which is no joke. Xia Yu is not being fair today.
After a few words with Lao Xia, the auction officially began.
The first items to be auctioned were the Richard Miller batch, with an average price of around one to two million Hong Kong dollars, not much different from its estimated price.
If you package them together, you only get half of the Flora Cup, so the competition is still not fierce enough.
After Richard Miller was sold out, it was soon Lao Xia's turn to buy Patek Philippe. Many people were interested in this 3979. After several bids, the price quickly reached 4 million Hong Kong dollars, and then it could not be increased any further.
At this time, Xia Yu decisively raised his bid and bought the famous watch for 4.5 million.
This is not just a suite in hand, this is directly a villa in hand. Old Xia is still calm about this.
Maybe I'm numb!
In the past, his elder brother fought with him for the family house, but now he has the house in his hands. His son really makes him proud.
After buying Lao Xia’s watch, Xia Yu also wanted to consider his own. He took a fancy to two Lange watches, one was 2383 and the other was 2384. The dials were black and white, which made a perfect pair.
Excluding the electronic watches he bought and lost as a child, Xia Yu's first watch was a Lange & Söhne, a Chinese brand, rather than Swiss watches such as Patek Philippe, Vacheron Constantin, Jaeger-LeCoultre, and Breguet.
He likes its complexity, its precision, and its seemingly old-fashioned yet actually reserved nature.
I can only say that damn ?guoge, is as hateful as the bald guoge next door.
If you like it, just buy it. One costs two million, one costs three million, and two are only worth one of Lao Xia’s. But who can blame Xia Yu for liking it? Liking it is more important than the price.
The other watches were not very attractive, so the family left early, found a place to have dinner, and returned to the auction site only after it was completely dark.
Jewelry becomes more dazzling under the light, and jewelry auctions are more suitable for night time.
Everyone was dressed much more formally this time than during the day, and if you hadn't told me, I would have thought we were at some kind of party.
Just like the previous few auctions where he locked on his target from the beginning, Xia Yu also had several options for this jewelry auction and even paid a deposit in advance.
If you don’t hand it in, you can’t shoot it. Isn’t that fucked up?
The appetizer this time was a 10.04 carat natural Burmese pigeon blood ruby ring, and the main course was a 109.08 carat natural Kashmir royal blue sapphire necklace. Not to mention the desserts, they were all worthless little things.
What Xia Yu called "not worth much" was actually worth at least 18 million, but compared to the auction items that often cost tens of millions or even hundreds of millions, it was really not worth much, especially this sapphire necklace, which was estimated to be between 95 million and 120 million Hong Kong dollars. He felt that the difference would not be too big.
He had seen the preview before the auction. This sapphire necklace was so beautiful that even a grown man like him wanted to wear it.
It's not just women who love jewelry, but also dragons.
Xia Yu wanted to buy it and give it to Lin Shuqin, and then ask his mother to give it to the woman he liked, the mother of his future child.
Putting aside whether Ms. Lin would think he was unfilial, just one seemed not enough to share, and he had to buy a few more as a backup.
Also up for auction was a diamond necklace worn by Marilyn Monroe, but Xia Yu had no interest in it because he didn't like diamonds.
He prefers natural gemstones such as sapphire, ruby and emerald, and in the future he will most likely propose with a gemstone ring instead of a diamond.
"Mom, what do you think of this sapphire necklace?"
Xia Yu moved closer to Lin Shuqin.
"Don't ask me, I can see the valuation."
Lin Shuqin is not as easy to fool as Lao Xia, especially when it comes to such a big deal involving hundreds of millions of dollars, she is very cautious!
"You're the only female comrade in our family, you have to give me some advice!"
Xia Yu continued.
"It's beautiful, but it's too expensive. You might as well buy something else for the same price."
Lin Shuqin also has a good sense of aesthetics, so she would naturally be attracted by this sapphire necklace, but its price is not as beautiful as the necklace itself.
"The more expensive something is, the more you cherish it. There are so many cheap things, houses are very cheap. One hundred million can only buy half of our neighborhood, so what's the point?"
Xia Yu began to persuade Lin Shuqin that Hua Xia's houses had financial attributes, but their family had passed the stage of making money from houses, so they had to take a long-term view so that they could have a bigger picture.
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