Episode description

Aurel has an extensive career in watches and in the last few years, he and his wife Livia have partnered with Phillips Auction House to help run their watch department. Now, Aurel is of course a collector of watches himself, but instead of talking about his collection, we wanted to talk about the psychology of collecting. What makes someone go further than they had planned at an auction? What about the little nuances that makes a collector buy a piece that to the naked eye, may match the other 10 that they currently own? There are a lot of aspects of collecting that I feel a lot of us don’t think about. Aurel has auctioned off some of the most important pieces known in the market. From Paul Newman’s Paul Newman Daytona to many others, he has dealt with collectors and buyers of all kinds.

- Phillips Watch Department: In Association with Bacs & Russo - https://www.phillips.com/watches

- Auction Video of Paul Newman's, Paul Newman Daytona - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0tjSUOvi5k&t=10s

Recorded February 10th, 2021