Inside the Frenzied World of Rare Watches and the Rich People Who Love Them – Vanity Fair
On the morning of December 11, a young, nattily dressed, largely unmasked crowd streamed into the lower level of Phillips in midtown Manhattan for the 2021 New York Watch Auction, abuzz with the kind of anticipation you might expect in line for a concert. Phillips’s brand-new glass-box headquarters sits at the foot of 432 Park Avenue, the matchstick-thin luxury residential tower that teeters over a short stretch of Midtown commonly known as billionaire’s row but that m…….