Phillips in Association with Bacs & Russo has announced their next docket of listings for the upcoming Geneva Watch Auction XVI. Scheduled to take place from November 5-6 in its namesake Geneva, Switzerland, the esteemed annual auction event this year will include three exceptional timepieces produced by who many consider the founding father of independent watchmaking, George Daniels.

Headlining the event from George Daniels is the unique Spring Case Tourbillon in yellow gold (estimate in excess of CHF 1 million), a yellow gold Anniversary limited to 35 pieces in yellow gold (estimate CHF 300,000-600,000) and a yellow gold Millennium limited to 48 pieces (estimate CHF 250,000-500,000).

Alexandre Ghotbi, Head of Watches, Continental Europe & Middle East, says:
?Following an extraordinary first half of the year, with 100% of watches sold, we are now looking ahead to an exciting fall season. George Daniels was one of the greatest watchmakers in history, and it is an honour to present not only a unique tourbillon wristwatch with spring case, made fully by hand by Daniels himself and appearing on the auction market for the very first time, but also two of the most sought-after wristwatches by an independent watchmaker ahead of the Geneva Watch Auction: XVI in November. For Daniels, a watch had to have historic, intellectual, technical, aesthetic, amusing and useful qualities, a mantra that he applied to all his creations, with these three examples being...