Wine and watches pair up for HK sale

Sotheby’s next Hong Kong sale on 4 April will combine fine wines and top watches consigned by a collector with a “passion” for both.

The wine side of the auction encompasses some 4,000 bottles in over 500 lots and is estimated to make HK$40-$55 million.

Once again Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, the leading wine label at Sotheby’s auctions for two years in a row now, will dominate the sale with a “massive collection” of 983 bottles, including three Jeroboams and two Methuselahs.

There are also around 200 bottles of Henri Jayer, including 19 magnums and over 250 bottles, 10 magnums and two imperials of Pétrus spanning 1964-2005.

These line-up alongside Krug, Dom Pérignon and Bollinger and nearly 300 lots of Cult Napa Cabs from Screaming Eagle, Harlan and Dalla Valle Maya.

Fans of fancy timepieces will need to wait until 7 April in order to get their hands (or perhaps wrists) on brands such as Panerai, Jaeger-LeCoultre and Audemars Piguet.

Highlights include a special edition Panerai “Ceramic Skeletonised Dual Time Zone Tourbillon Wristwatch with 6-Day Power Reserve Pam00348 ‘Lo Scienziato’ Radiomir Tourbillon GMT Ceramica” (est. HK$780,000 – 1.2m); a limited edition Jaeger-LeCoultre “Platinum Perpetual Calendar Multi-Axis Spherical Tourbillon Wristwatch with Retrograde Date, 8-Day Power Reserve and Equation of Time Gyrotourbillon” (est. HK$1.2 – 2m) and a Audemars Piguet “Forged Carbon, Ceramic and Titanium Tourbillon Chronograph Wristwatch with Register, Power Reserve Indication and Function Selector Royal Oak Carbon Concept” (est. HK$1.2 – 2 million).