The 1967 Toyota 2000GT is an absolutely stunning car, period. RM Auctions sold this beauty for $1,155,000 million at auction last month. “I believe it to be a double highest price ever achieved, both for a Toyota production car and for any Asian car,” he wrote in an e-mail to the New York Times, David Kinney, publisher of Hagerty’s price guide. “I have looked for anything higher and have been [...]

Christie’s New York, the worldwide leading auctioneer, broke the record for the highest ever grossing post-war and contemporary art auction in history, totaling over $412 million in sales. The auction highlighted works from Andy Warhol, Franz Kline, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mark Rothko, Jeff Koons and Roy Lichtenstein, among others. “This evening’s sale set a new record total for any Post-War and Contemporary Art sale. Over the past six years, Christie’s has [...]

A beautiful Heuer “Monaco” production 1133b worn by Steve McQueen in the film “Le Mans” fetched $799,500 at an auction of film memorabilia. The watch in question possesses a retro 60s style matt blue dial with a black leather vented strap, and it was the first ever automatic and square cased chronograph watch. Launched in 1969 the Heuer Monaco was almost instantly made famous, because Steve McQueen chose to wear [...]

Last night, Christie’s auction house held part one of their Elizabeth Taylor auction, fetching nearly $116 million, a dazzling world record for a private jewelry collection. “The evening’s auction was expected to fetch $30 million. The hammer went down on a night that had accumulated $115,932,000 or £74,196,480.” reports the Telegraph. According to the Telegraph, here are a few examples of the sales: The La Peregrina necklace, a diamond, ruby, [...]

The iconic red and black leather jacket worn by the King of Pop in his “Thriller” music video is set to go under the hammer at the Music Icons auction on June 25 and 26 at Julien’s Auctions in Beverly Hills. The jacket is expected to fetch between $200,000 and $400,000 and a portion of the proceeds will benefit the Shambala Preserve, current home to Michael Jackson’s two Bengal tigers, [...]

Châteaux Lafite-Rothschild 1869 is the world’s most expensive wine sold for $232,692 by Sotheby’s wine auctions in Hong Kong. Lafite came top of the first official quality-based classification of Medoc wines in 1855. The chateau was bought by Baron James de Rothschild in 1868, and bottles have since been labeled Lafite-Rothschild. The auction house held a record wine sale that

Don’t be so quick to throw away old perfume bottles! An engraved Guerlain bottle from 1870 recently sold at an auction in the city of Arcachon, in the southwest of France for the record sum of €45,600. Organized by Arcachon auction house Toledano, the sale took place in the presence of French fragrance expert