Connoisseur

MB&F did not just build strange watches. It rewrote how the trade treats the independents and suppliers behind every calibre, and turned a niche into a category.

Ulysse Nardin earned more first-place Neuchatel certifications than any other manufacture, supplied 50-plus navies, and quietly authored modern complication watchmaking. The collecting world is finally catching up.

The 88-metre Maltese Falcon is the only large-scale at-sea proof of a 1960s DynaRig thought experiment. Twenty years on, the rig has been built only once more. We trace how a paper concept became the most engineered sail plan afloat.

Anselm Kiefer is the rare cornerstone living artist whose cultural and market standing have moved in lockstep for three decades. Our editorial read on the German painter's 2026 position, the cycles that matter, and where the secondary market sits.

Jacques Selosse rewrote the rules in Avize, and the grower-champagne movement followed. We read the cuvées, the lieux-dits, and the cellars built around them.

A quiet third path is forming between traditional collecting and tokenized art platforms. We examine how institutions are constructing internal art treasuries that look like tokenized infrastructure but issue no tokens and accept no outside capital.

Institutions holding $200M+ in fine art face a binary structural choice: keep the collection on the internal balance sheet, or securitize into ETPs and ABS. The decision now shapes control, liquidity, and valuation discipline.

European yachting is entering a new era where regulatory structure, documentation quality and compliance posture quietly determine resale value, charter access and cruising flexibility.

From a doubled global fleet to a generation of owners ten years younger, the superyacht market is on track to reach $25.7 billion by 2032 — and Greece sits squarely on the route.

Bordeaux has had a quiet decade by its own standards. Our editorial read on what the 2026 market actually looks like and where serious collectors are buying.

A 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…

Most 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…

Rising auction results at Phillips and Christie's keep underlining Audemars Piguet's cornerstone status. Our editorial read on the manufacture in 2026.

China 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…

Auction 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…

Most 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…

From Caravaggio's tenebrism to Rubens's grand machines — our field guide to Baroque art covers the period, the canon, and the auction market today.

A 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…