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Pablo Picasso-Owned Watchs Jaw-Dropping Sale at Bonhams Paris This Quirky Picasso-Owned Watch Just Sold for $267,000 Getty Images / Tony Vaccaro A rare wristwatch belonging to Pablo Picasso sold this week, smashing pre-auction estimates for a jaw-dropping auction result. On Thursday, the collectible went under the hammer at Bonhams Paris where it sold for an incredible $266,978 – 20 times its modest pre-sale estimate. At first glance a well-worn humble 32mm steel watch, the watch dial displ...

A week after a painting by Picasso sold for $103.4m, the artist's watch goes under the hammer in Paris with a very low estimate

Share Pablo Picasso was never called a watch aficionado. However, it turns out the famed artist was. He owned a Jaeger-LeCoutre and Rolex GMT-Master, and was known to wear at least three distinct watches while he painted. Those three timepieces have achieved a certain notoriety: Two of them are currently said to be owned by the Picasso Foundation. The third was believed to have been lost—until now. The manual wind steel-on-steel piece will sell as part of Bonhams’ Paris Luxury Watch Sale on...

Unknown rare watch owned by Picasso offered for the first time at auction Rare ‘Picasso watch’, Michael Z. Berger Co pour Pablo Picasso, c.1960, estimate €12,000 – 18,000. Photo: Bonhams. PARIS .- Picasso is revered in the art world and beyond for such masterpieces as Guernica, La Vie and Girl Before a Mirror, but in the world of horology, it is a small collection of relatively humble timepieces owned by the Master of Modern Art which are admired rather than his artistic talents. The Picas...