Five Objects, One Question: What Do We Really Collect?
An Auction Report from Antiquorum Hong Kong.
On November 30 at Antiquorum in Hong Kong, five disparate watches converged in an auction that revealed the emotional economies underpinning collecting—nostalgia, performance, mythmaking, and the quiet fear of losing cultural memory.
Auctions sometimes assembled groups of watches that felt less like curated sales and more like sociological accidents. On…
