Last week, I visited New York to attend the annual watch auctions, glad-hand industry celebs with the goal of joining the international cabal of industry insiders, and do some real boots-on-the-ground reporting. The auctions are always an exciting cap to the year; I’ll have an article coming soon with some takeaways from this weekend, but I thought it’d be fun to publish a little photo report too.

It’s the first time I’ve attended big watch auctions in-person, and — I know everyone says this, but — I’d recommend going if you get the opportunity. It’s a ton of fun to see a bunch of rare watches in one place, meet people that geek out over the same stuff as you, and just be around the watch community.

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And for posterity, here’s the moment Lot 1T, the Patek Philippe Nautilus ref. 5711 Tiffany Blue, hammered for an all-in sale price of $6.5m:

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