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Auction - Season 6

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Every day is different in the world’s greatest auction houses

This popular and long running series is back. The latest ten programmes include the £10 million pocket watch made for American Henry Graves in 1925 – the Patek Phillipe Super Complication. Created to his exacting specification, it included a description of the stars in the night sky right above his Manhattan apartment. There’s a rare miniature portrait of Mozart, the inscribed plate from Oliver Cromwell’s coffin, paintings by Sir Winston Churchill (part of the collection of his daughter Mary, Lady Soames), and rare pictures of The Beatles crossing London’s Abbey Road. 

Other treasures include fabulous jewels made for Princess Eugenie, now up for auction in Geneva, and Rome from Mount Aventine by J M W Turner. It is one of the last big Turner paintings in private hands. Will it fetch £20 million?

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