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Mysafe casa4/5/2023 ![]() Back in the day, how did you discover new treasures?ĪM: I’ve always purchased watches in same manner, through a good relationship with dealers and auction houses. TT: Today with the internet, things have changed. Watches became more broad, rather than a niche topic. It was an interesting and passionate auction. We also saw the increase of prices of Daytonas on the market. TT: What’s the craziest auction you’ve ever been to? Any funny anecdotes or shenanigans?ĪM: In November 2013, The Daytona Lesson One in Geneva, spearheaded by Aurel.ĪM: Well, it was a great auction. You can collect so many types of watches from these brands.Īuro's white gold Patek Philippe Reference 3700 wristwatch, made for the Sultanate of Oman Their portfolios are so wide and they produced everything, from pocket watches, to sports watches, elegant dress watches and even complicated models. For more than one century, they produced a great variety of references. TT: Which brand for you is the most interesting to collect and why?ĪM: Probably Rolex and Omega. He bought it in 1976 on a business trip in New York and presented it to me in 1976. ![]() with the retailer’s signature on the crystal. For my 18 th birthday, he also gave me a stainless steel Hamilton Pulsar P3 sold at Tiffany & Co. It was a vintage watch manufactured in 1957, which was my birth year. It was a gold plated calendar Seamaster from Omega. TT: Which watches have the most meaning to you in terms of sentimental value?ĪM: My father gave me a watch when I was 8 years old for my communion. I was around 20 years old and I found it in an antique shop in Bologna with my mother. There’s a wide range…my collections spread from a small elegant Cartier wristwatches to an oversized chronograph.Īuro's stainless steel Rolex Reference 6062 triple calendar wristwatch with luminous dial and hands and Gay Frères braceletĪM: The first watch I bought was in 1978. I love the feel, look and intricacies of watches - what they can do, stand for and for the enjoyment I get from holding and studying them. My approach to collecting has grown and matured into collecting via sets, types and themes. I like good-looking watches-not banal or common timepieces. I’m passionate about large split seconds, oversized chronographs for aviation and auto use as well. In terms of brands, I collect Omega, Longines, Cartier, Patek Philippe and Rolex. I look for watches that I would like to own. Tiffany To: What kind of watches do you collect?Īuro Montanari: Oh… many. Today, in the final part of the four part series, we speak to Auro the collector, and discuss his thoughts about watch collecting today, what he loves, and watches that fascinate him. Accompanied by photos taken by Auro himself, this series is divided into four sections: Writing, Living, Learning, and Collecting. We speak with Auro during this period of confinement to learn what he’s doing, and to discover more about the inimitable multi-hyphenate: whether it be the collector, writer, entrepreneur, scholar, aesthete, and much more. By Tiffany To, translated to Traditional Chinese by Jill Chen Ex-Machina: A History of Generative Art.
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