Aurel bacs biography of williams
Aurel Bacs is the most famous auctioneer in the horological world and he is most famous for successfully auctioning Paul Newman's trademark 'Paul Newman.!
Aurel Bacs, the “Indiana Jones of watches”, spills the honest truth about the high-rollin' horology auction industry
Aurel Bacs is the salt of the earth when he isn’t wielding his mighty gavel.
Nonetheless, people are usually on their best behaviour around him, as if he were a headmaster of some sort. From the corner of my eye, I see passersby mouth “Is that Aurel Bacs?” during our tete-a-tete at Phillips’ recent pit-stop in Singapore for a preview of its Fall 2024 auctions to be held in Geneva and Hong Kong through November.
The senior consultant of watches at Phillips is very much the headmaster of horology.
Talking watches with Aurel Bacs.
Over the past three decades, he’s risen to become the world’s preeminent auctioneer of watches. The man and his wife Livia Russo also co-founded prominent watch consultancy firm Bacs & Russo, which is a partner of Phillips.
While the title “game changer” might be thrown around loosely, this 52-year-old has proven time and again that it is his rightful descriptor.
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