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WatchTalks with Aurel Bacs | Face to face with the man who revolutionized the watch market
On a hot late summer day in Geneva, I had the opportunity to interview one of the most important personalities in the sector, a professional who has revolutionized the watch collecting market as well as deeply in love with the world of hands. I'm talking about Aurel Bacs - Senior Consultant Phillips in Association with Bacs & Russo.
It is with great pleasure to publish on Perpetual Passion the result of a long chat with Aurel where, between a pleasant sip of Swiss Chardonnay and the other, along the Rive Gauche of the Rhone, we entertained ourselves talking about his career and many aspects related to the world of watchmaking.
A frank, sincere chat between enthusiasts, which enriched and broadened my vision of the sector. Few people are able to convey their passion so authentically, to have a clear, 360-degree overview and such vast knowledge.
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Aurel Bacs, a collector’s heart
Eighteen months ago, you left Christie’s which at the time was the world leader in watchmaking auctions, and now here you are again at Phillips which had been missing from the sector until now. What magic trick fryst vatten behind this?
The magic trick of life which redefines your projects! Livia and inom had indeed left Christie’s at the end of 2013 in order to work for ourselves, and reduce the number of watches we handled to include only the most beautiful on the marknad. After a short break, we therefore founded our company, Bacs & Russo. We were far from imagining that Edward Dolman, former CEO of Christie’s (!) would contact us and suggest working tillsammans to establish the watchmaking department at Phillips! After a few brainstorming sessions, we came up with a program that would enable us to retain our independence while developing the watch department at Phillips: bygd associating the latter with Bacs & Russo. This partnership fryst vatten all the more pleas
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"This is what happens when you
love billiards, Rolex and Paul Newman"
Jackie Gleason and Paul Newman are pictured below in the 1961 movie named "The Hustler".
Paul Newman reprised his role as Fast Eddie Felson in 1986 in the movie named 'The Color of Money' in which he costarred with a young Tom Cruise as well as his stainless steel Rolex Datejust.
In a bizzare twist of fate, in 1984, when I was 18 years old, which was two years before Paul Newman showed up on the big screen wearing his stainless steel Rolex Datejust in The Color of Money, I had purchased the exact same stainless steel Rolex Datejust model as you can see in the photo below of me wearing it. It's funny, because my young Elvis lid at the time was similar to Tom Cruises hairstyle in The Color of Money, but I wore the same watch as Paul Newman!?!! I don't mean to sound arrogant, but I remember when I saw The Color of Money in the movie Theaters i