For collectors chasing the best of independent and heritage watchmaking, Phillips’ fall online sale is already proving fiercely competitive.
Held in association with Bacs & Russo, Phillips Watches Online: The New York Sessions Fall 2026 opened for bidding Oct. 1 and ends Oct. 9 at 10 a.m. Eastern, with auctions closing at one-minute intervals.
The 88-lot sale is the highest-value online auction ever organized by the house’s New York watch team. Among the lots are timepieces by F.P. Journe, Patek Phillipe, Rolex, A. Lange & Söhne, and more.
Three timepieces have already (at press time) far eclipsed Phillips’ estimate—a sign of sustained appetite for top-tier watchmaking following a spring season in which Phillips’ watch sales totaled $235.5 million.
Voutilainen
Leading the sale is a Voutilainen 28Sport Limited Edition (pictured at top), one of just eight made in stainless steel and believed to be one of only two with an onyx center dial, framed by a blue guilloche hour track.
Offered by its original owner who bought it in 2021, bids for the timepiece have already nearly tripled the auction house’s high estimate of $240,000. At press time, the top bid was at $700,000.
F.P. Journe
F.P. Journe Accounts for the sale’s other two breakout lots.
A virtually unworn 2025 lineSport Centigraphe Souverain, in a hammered platinum case and bracelet, measures time to one-hundredth of a second. This watch has climbed 3.5 times its low estimate of $60,000 during live bidding.
Also in the auction is an F.P. Journe 2022 Octa Lune, which pairs pink gold with a salmon dial—a color combination the auctioneer says is seldom seen.
At press time the pink watch had attracted a dozen bids, sailing close to twice the auction house’s high estimate of $120,000.
Patek Philippe
Among the heritage offerings, a fresh-to-market Patek Philippe reference 5270, the brand’s first perpetual calendar chronograph with a fully in-house movement, arrives as a complete set from its original owner.
Bidding remains within its $80,000–$160,000 estimate, as of press time.
Klimt Atmos: a timepiece not for the wrist
Perhaps the most surprising object up for auction isn’t a watch at all. It’s a clock that comes with one of art history’s most famous embraces.
Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Atmos Marqueterie “Gustav Klimt” (estimated at $70,000–$140,000) sits inside a cabinet whose panels re-create Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss, the gold-robed couple he painted in 1907.
Its panels are marquetry, a kind of wood inlay in which pieces of different woods are fitted together like a jigsaw to form the image, with touches of gold leaf nodding to Klimt’s gilded original.
Push a hidden button and the lovers part to reveal the clock, which never needs winding. The Atmos runs on tiny shifts in room temperature. The clock comes with a mother-of-pearl dial, a cushion-cut yellow sapphire, and a diamond-set moon. Phillips says it’s the first of the edition to come to auction.
Top: Lot 22, a Voutilainen 28Sport Limited Edition, with bids far surpassing auction houses estimates (Photos courtesy of Phillips)
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