For our next highlight, we find a lovely vintage Cartier “baseball” from the link early '70s. Phillips had the high link estimate at CHF 100,000, but bidders swung for the fences and link the hammer fell at an impressive CHF 403,200.

When you think of Top Gun, what comes to mind? Tom Cruise, obviously. But what else? For Christian Knoop, IWC's creative director, it was the dust of the Mojave link desert; the icy waters of Lake Tahoe in the winter; the link deep green of the mountain forests that the fighter pilots observe as they zoom overhead. For the last couple of years, Knoop and his team has been steeped in this imagery for link the brand's latest collection, which debuted at Watches and Wonders.