James Bond's Breitling Top Time Geiger Counter Found At Garage Sale For £25, Could Hit £60,000 At Auction Next Month

Breitling Top Time

Imagine finding a beaten up old Breitling at a garage sale.  You pay £25 for it, and then think
"hey, this looks just like that watch James Bond wore back in 1965!"And then you find out
it is the very watch that James Bond wore back in 1965!

Rolex Explorer Sold For $182,000 And that's Only The Start (Is The Economy Roaring Again?)

Rolex Explorer

Today's Christie's auction had my head spinning.
Like, that white-dial Explorer 1 sold for $182,000! Can you believe that? Me neither either.
Let's run through some results.    

Three Of The Absolute Rarest Vintage Rolex Chronographs, Ever: The 4113 Split-Seconds, The Hermes Paul Newman, And The Zerographe

When you talk about Rolex chronographs, this is the one that stands above all the rest.  The 4113 is the only Rolex to break the $1 million mark at public auction, back in 2011 when this example ended up at 1.17M.  So what makes the 4113 so special?  First, it's gigantic - 44mm.  It's incredibly rare - only 12 were made, while just 8 have surfaced, mostly from the original families.  It features an unusually thin bezel (for a Rolex), and wears like a thoroughly modern watch, though all 12 were produced in 1942.  But what makes this guy SO special, and SO valuable is that little extra button popping out of the crown - the 4113 is the only split-seconds chronograph to be built by Rolex, ever.