7 lots on the block right now
Objectsworthstaying up for.
A live saleroom that runs after midnight. Leave a ceiling and the house bids for you, one increment at a time. Reserves stay sealed until they are met, and a late bid pushes the clock out instead of stealing the lot.
- Sealed reserves
- Proxy bidding to your ceiling
- Two-minute soft close
- $4M hammered across 273 bids
- Hammer$2MThe Macallan 1926, 60 Year Old, Fine and Rare, One Bottle
- Hammer$22KDickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities
- Hammer$41KJoan's Chair, Ambrose Heal, 1901
- Proxy raise$22KDickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities
- PassedA Marble Statue of a Lion, ca. 400–390 BCE
- PassedA Kitchen Necklace, Gésine Hackenberg, 2008
- PassedVincent van Gogh, 'Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler)', 1887
- PassedA Carriage Clock, Robert Robin, 1780-1785
- Hammer$120KDomaine de la Romanée-Conti, La Tâche 1990, Six Bottles in Original Case
- Hammer$1MWoolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway
- Hammer$31KA Silver Teapot, Robert Crawford Johnson, 1922-1923
- Hammer$90KA Terracotta Wine Amphora, ca. 100 BCE
- Hammer$330KA 1972 Porsche 911 2.4 S Coupé in Signal Orange, Matching Numbers
- Hammer$155KA Glass Necklace, 1820
The house
Everything on this page is a real number.
No stock imagery, no invented volume. These figures come straight out of the same tables the bid engine writes to.
7
Lots on the block
Open for bidding this minute
$4M
Hammered to date
Across 11 sold lots
273
Bids placed
Manual and proxy, every one logged
14
Registered bidders
Paddle numbers issued
Closing soon
On the block, and running out of clock.
Ordered by the time left, not by what the house would like you to see. A bid in the last two minutes puts time back.
Timepieces
A Platinum Wristwatch, Edmond Jaeger, 1928
Current bid
$365,000
Timepieces
The Three Wristwatches, Joe Tilson, 1965
Current bid
$165,000
Fine Art
Georges Seurat (French, 1859–1891), 'A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884', 1884–86, border added 1888–89
Current bid
$77,500
Jewellery & Gems
The Milton Brooch, 600-700
Current bid
$215,000
Antiquities
A Terracotta Amphora (Jar), Andokides, ca. 530 BCE
Current bid
$90,000
Automobilia
A 1963 Aston Martin DB4 Series V Vantage, Chassis DB4/1042/R
Current bid
$1,360,000
Modern Design
A Ply Chair, Jasper Morrison, 1990
Current bid
$14,000
Most contested
The lots people refuse to lose.
Ranked by the number of bids placed, which is a better measure of desire than price.
- 01$365K
A Platinum Wristwatch, Edmond Jaeger, 1928
20 bids · Timepieces - 02$14K
A Ply Chair, Jasper Morrison, 1990
20 bids · Modern Design - 03$215K
The Milton Brooch, 600-700
15 bids · Jewellery & Gems - 04$78K
Georges Seurat (French, 1859–1891), 'A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884', 1884–86, border added 1888–89
15 bids · Fine Art - 05$165K
The Three Wristwatches, Joe Tilson, 1965
14 bids · Timepieces
How the room works
Four rules that decide who wins.
Auction mechanics are usually hidden because they are unflattering. Ours are worth reading before you place a bid.
- 01Proxy bidding
Leave a ceiling, not a bid
Tell the house the most you would pay. It bids for you in the smallest legal increment and stops the moment someone passes you. Your ceiling is never shown — not to the seller, not to the room.
- 02Sealed reserve
The reserve stays sealed
A seller's floor is a number, not a signal. You are told whether the reserve has been met and nothing more, so nobody can map it out by probing with small bids.
- 03Anti-snipe soft close
The clock will not reward a snipe
A bid inside the final two minutes pushes the close out by two more. The lot ends when the bidding ends, not when the fastest connection fires at 0.4 seconds — and overtime is capped so it cannot run forever.
- 04Escrowed settlement
Every bid on the board is funded
Bidding places a hold on your wallet, so the price you are chasing is real money. When the hammer falls the hold is captured, the buyer's premium is applied, and every losing deposit is released in the same transaction.
Departments
Specialists, not a search bar.
Each department sets its own increments, condition language and buyer's premium. Start where you already know what good looks like.
Timepieces
Wristwatches and pocket watches of consequence — complications, first series, and references with a documented history.
Fine Art
Paintings, works on paper and sculpture from the post-war period to the present, together with selected Old Master impressions.
Jewellery & Gems
Signed period jewellery and unmounted stones, each accompanied by current laboratory reports where the market expects them.
Automobilia
Motor cars offered without reserve or with, plus the badges, tools and forecourt ephemera that surround them.
Antiquities
Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Near Eastern works of art, offered only with pre-1970 provenance on file.
Modern Design
Twentieth-century furniture, glass and lighting by the studios and ateliers that defined the century's material language.
Rare Books & Manuscripts
Landmark printing, illuminated manuscripts, association copies and archives, collated and described leaf by leaf.
Wine & Spirits
Mature Bordeaux and Burgundy, grower Champagne and single-cask spirits, inspected and stored under temperature control.
Register to bid
The next lot closes whether you are watching or not.
A paddle takes a minute. Leave your ceiling, and the house will hold your place in the room on any of the 7 lots open tonight — through every increment, every extension, and the fall of the hammer.
Free to register. Bidding places a hold on your wallet — never a charge until the hammer falls.