Finally, there’s the pink stelline 6062 once owned by Gordon Bethune, a well-known watch collector who was the CEO of Continental Airlines in the ’90s. This 6062 first came to auction in 2012 ($590,500), appearing again in 2018 (CHF 1.9 million).
The Bethune 6062 will come to auction again at Christie’s Geneva in November, with an estimate of CHF 1-2 million. For the past five years, it’s been owned by Mohammed Zaman, who is selling his collection in a mega single-owner sale (which we covered here). Christie’s Guillemin said this is the best-preserved 6062 he’s seen after the Dark Star.
The Bethune 6062 is one of a number of watches up for sale again after selling for a huge price in the past few years. With the market slowing down, it might be tough to surpass the result from 2018, but it’s an undeniably special watch.
We could offer superlatives to more 6062s – for example, black dials with stars or diamonds – but since the Bethune 6062 starts our discussion of the examples at auction this fall, let’s look at the other four.