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A Rolex Worn by the First British Woman to Swim the English Channel Just Sold for $1.73 Million at Auction
Sotheby’s latest watch events went rather swimmingly. The auction house’s earnings in Geneva yesterday closed at $27 million. Helping Sotheby’s achieve such an eye-watering figure was Mercedes Gleitze’s ‘Companion Oyster,’ an ultra-rare Rolex prototype worn by the first British women to swim the English Channel on one of her many journeys across the water. And plenty of Breguet timepieces, part of Sotheby’s blockbuster sale from the watchmaker (the largest in decades), hammered down for quite the pretty penny, too. Gleitze’s Rollie ended up fetching a whopping $1.73 million, heading home with an Asian ... (full story)
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