An antique Imperial Mughal necklace brought in more than $5 million, more than an Indian jewel has sold for at auction previously, and a rare 1928 Patek Philippe wrist watch sold for $3.6 million, the most ever paid for a simple chronograph at auction.
A 1942 steel Rolex watch went for upwards of $1 million; a bottle of 1945 Romanee-Conti red burgundy wine went for $123,889 — the most ever paid at auction for a 75-centiliter bottle.
And at a Tuesday evening auction, Sotheby's said it brought in $89 million for luxury goods.
Buyers set record prices, paying $12.7 million for a rare emerald-and-diamond tiara that a fabulously wealthy German prince, Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck, commissioned for his second, Russian-born wife around 1900. An intensely pink 11-carat diamond from the mines of India sold for $10.8 million, the ninth highest price ever paid for a diamond at auction.
