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Art CollectingA painting of a stranger’s face sold for over 20 million dollars at auction in 2023, outperforming blue-chip stocks and most real estate markets in the same period. That painting…
Watch CollectingMost watchmakers treat steel as a commodity. Rolex treats it as a competitive weapon. While the rest of the Swiss watch industry has long relied on 316L stainless steel, a…
Watch CollectingRising auction results at Phillips and Christie's keep underlining Audemars Piguet's cornerstone status. Our editorial read on the manufacture in 2026.
Wine CollectingChina imported over 500 million litres of wine in 2026, yet sparkling wine accounted for less than 8% of that total. That gap is closing faster than most Italian producers…
Art CollectingAuction records once owned by abstract expressionism are starting to crack. In 2024, figurative and portrait works accounted for nearly 58% of total fine art auction hammer prices in the…
Watch CollectingMost watches lose value the moment you buy them. Discontinued Audemars Piguet watches do the opposite. While the broader luxury goods market has shown uneven recovery since 2023, certain out-of-production…
Art CollectingFrom Caravaggio's tenebrism to Rubens's grand machines — our field guide to Baroque art covers the period, the canon, and the auction market today.
Wine CollectingA bottle of 2016 Barolo from a top producer can cost you £80 at retail. A Burgundy of comparable critical score and ageing potential will set you back three to…
Art CollectingThe global art market contracted by roughly 4% in 2026, yet contemporary pop art bucked that trend entirely, with bold graphic works and celebrity-adjacent imagery driving some of the strongest…
Watch CollectingFewer than 30% of authorised Rolex dealers in North America reportedly received a single GMT-Master II Pepsi allocation in the first quarter of 2026, according to grey-market intelligence tracked by…
Art CollectingA single canvas by a self-taught artist who died at 27 sold for $110.5 million in 2017, making Jean-Michel Basquiat the most expensive American artist ever auctioned at that time….
Watch CollectingFrom the Calatrava to the Nautilus to the Grand Complications — why Patek Philippe remains the single most-essential manufacture in serious watch collecting.
Wine CollectingMore than half of every bottle of wine consumed in Switzerland comes from abroad. That single fact reshapes how you need to think about Swiss wine import protection, because it…
Watch CollectingRolex sold fewer than one million watches in 2023 yet generated an estimated 10 billion Swiss francs in revenue, a figure that dwarfs every competitor in its price tier. TAG…
Wine CollectingThe wine glass in your hand may look identical to the one you poured a decade ago, but what’s inside it is changing faster than most people realize. Wine regions…
Art CollectingEvery serious art movement started with someone breaking a rule they never knew existed. Naive art did something rarer still. It was built by people who never learned the rules…
Watch CollectingOmega sold over one million watches in a single year before most Swiss competitors had even stabilized their postwar production lines. That number tells you something real about the brand’s…
Wine CollectingBurgundy's share of Liv-ex trading just hit its highest level on record. Our editorial read on the long shift in serious wine collector preferences.
