Sleeping Beauty Rolex Fetches A Record Breaking $1.14m at Christie’s

Awakened from her continued slumber, a 1950 Sleeping Beauty Rolex alarm afresh fetched 1.14 million, four times its estimated amount and set a new apple almanac back it was awash at Christie’s New York. The stainless animate ref. 8171 Rolex was initially estimated to back $250,000-$350,000. The timepiece, ahead nicknamed the “Padellone” (Big Frying Pan in Italian) is one of the best complicated Rolexes anytime made. It appearance a amateur date and moonphase display.

Only 1000 pieces were anytime made, but it wasn’t until the contempo bargain that the archetypal was put in the aforementioned alliance as its analogue Ref. 4113, an colossal stainless animate alarm fabricated in 1942 that became the world’s best big-ticket Rolex anytime back it awash at bargain for $1.16 actor in Geneva