Only Watch: charity auction featuring unique watches!

Now established as a key event on the international watchmaking calendar, Only Watch has raised more than 70 million euro since 2005. The charity event, which is run under the high patronage of Prince Albert II of Monaco, was founded and is organised by Luc Pettavino, President of the Association Monégasque contre les Myopathies (Monegasque Association for Research Against Muscular Dystrophies).

“Auction after auction, this initiative shows that empathy, altruism and mutual respect as part of a collective effort have extraordinary power and offer hope in a rapidly changing world,” says the Monegasque national. Luc founded Only Watch for his son, who suffered from Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a genetic neuromuscular condition which affects around 1 in 3,000 boys at birth.

The 9^th Only Watch event, which came to a close in November 2021 in Geneva under the hammer at Christie’s, raised 28.5 million euros for the Monegasque Myopathies Association.

The 2019 record was not broken – the Patek Philippe Grandmaster Chime, which was sold for 28 million euros in 2019, then became the most expensive watch in the world.