Month: November 2021

Virgil Abloh’s replica watches uk blazed as brightly as the man himself

The late Virgil Abloh, who died of a rare form of cancer yesterday, packed a hell of a lot into his 41 years. The Louis Vuitton artistic director and founder of the Off-White label was revered as one of the most influential designers in the fashion industry. Given his zeitgeist-defining work, it’s perhaps not surprising that his brushes with the perfect replica watches world also made an oversized impression.

Drake’s Replica Patek Philippe Nautilus 5726 customised by Virgil Abloh / MAD Paris

Last year, Drake revealed a fully custom uk luxury fake Patek Philippe Nautilus Annual Calendar Ref. 5726 that’d been designed by Abloh and then brought to life by modification specialists MAD Paris. The Nautilus was coated with black diamond-like carbon before being smothered in emeralds.

Drake may boast an astonishing watch collection, but this 1:1 replica Patek Philippe was clearly special to him as he name-checked it in a couple of tracks. On Life is Good, Drake raps that “Virgil got that Patek on my wrist goin’ nuts” – a sentiment that it’s certainly hard to argue with.
A year later, Drake was still enamoured with the Swiss made replica watches. He wore it in the video for What’s Next and appeared to made a sly reference to the watch, too. “Yeah, I got one, Virgil got one and that there is the only two.”

Did this imply that the customised Patek Philippe Nautilus fake Paypal that everyone assumed was a one-off piece was actually owned by Abloh as well?

Fake Patek Philippe Nautilus 5726 customised by MAD Paris
Or was Drake referring to this similar watch that Abloh wore. It’s another customised AAA replica Patek Philippe Nautilus 5726 annual calendar with moonphase indicator, but this time it’s been blacked out in DLC with a pair of tiny quotation marks bracketing the Patek logo in a cheeky twist.
GQ reported that this was another modification job by MAD Paris that required a two-month process. The cheap super Patek Philippe was disassembled piece by piece before being coated in pitch-black DLC. With only the white logo text and the stars on the moonphase left in white, the result is stark and minimalist – a totally different effect to Drake’s emerald-crazed fever dream.

A George Daniels Pocket Watch, Ralph Ellison’s Fake Omega and a Rare Replica Rolex UK Will Lead Phillips’s New York Auction

Phillips’s recent replica watch auction in Geneva raked in $74.5 million and set a record for the most lucrative timepiece sale in history. And the house isn’t done yet.

On Thursday, Phillips released the lineup for its upcoming New York auction, which will take place on Saturday, December 11 (lots 1-81) and Sunday, December 12 (lots 82-165) at its new headquarters in Manhattan’s 432 Park Avenue.

Leading the sale is a George Daniels luxury replica watches UK, known as The Edward Hornby Tourbillon Pocket Watch (estimate $600,000-$1,200,000) and named after the lawyer who began amassing a watch collection in the 1930s. He purchased the best copy watch directly from Daniels in 1971. But what makes this piece special, other than the fact that it was made by one of modern watchmaking’s greatest masters, is that every part, with the exception of the balance spring and crystal, was created by hand. It’s the fourth watch that the late Daniels ever created and belongs to the first series of perfect fake watches he hand-crafted for collectors between 1969 and 1974.

But no horological auction is complete without a 1:1 fake Rolex UK leading the pack. The standout Rollie in the upcoming sale is an 18-karat yellow-gold Cosmograph “Paul Newman” AAA replica Rolex Daytona Ref. 6241 “John Player Special” (estimate $600,000-$1,200,000). Fewer than 300 examples of this watch—so nicknamed for mimicking the colors of the racecars that John Player Special sponsored in the late ’60s and ’70s—were made in 18-karat yellow gold.

Even fewer “Paul Newman” versions of the “John Player Special” Rolex Cosmograph Daytona replica Paypal were made. It is the first time this example is coming to auction and is said to be in an “outstanding state of preservation.” It’s followed by a cheap fake Rolex Cosmograph Daytona Ref. 6239 “Pulsations Cherry Logo” (estimate $350,000-$700,000) and a Rolex Cosmograph Daytona Ref. 6241 “Paul Newman” dubbed “The Krug.”

The high quality fake Omega Speedmaster Professional Ref. 145.012 that belonged to the celebrated author Ralph Ellison, who wrote Invisible Man, will, no doubt, be a focus of the sale. Swiss movement copy Omega set a record for its most expensive watch ever sold at auction in Geneva with the tropical dial Omega Speedmaster Broad Arrow that sold for $3,399,633. Ellison wore his Omega replica for men from 1968 until his death in 1994. Read more about it here.