{"id":121006,"date":"2023-09-20T20:04:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T18:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/luxus-magazine-return-on-the-second-part-of-heidi-horten-jewelry-sale-cancelled-by-christies\/"},"modified":"2023-09-20T20:06:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T18:06:47","slug":"luxus-magazine-return-on-the-second-part-of-heidi-horten-jewelry-sale-cancelled-by-christies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/luxus-magazine-return-on-the-second-part-of-heidi-horten-jewelry-sale-cancelled-by-christies\/","title":{"rendered":"[Luxus Magazine] Return on the second part of Heidi Horten jewelry sale cancelled by Christie’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Luxus Plus was in Geneva in May 2023 when Christie\u2019s wielded the hammer for the sale of the jewellery collection from philanthropist Heidi Horten\u2019s Estate. But despite the success record sale, which totalled CHF 180 million, the planned online continuation of the sale has now been cancelled by Christie\u2019s \u2013 because of the Horten Estate\u2019s complicated provenance with Nazi roots.<\/h4>\n

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\u201cAnd \u2026 sold!\u201d In May 2023, Christie\u2019s Geneva conducted the sale of the world\u2019s most valuable jewellery collections \u2013\u00a0The Heidi Horten collection, which was divided in individual lots.<\/span><\/p>\n

Among the highlights were the Harry Winston ‘Briolette of India’ diamond necklace (sold for CHF 6,337,000), and a Bulgari diamond and emerald ring with a fancy vivid yellow 20.92-carat diamond (sold for CHF 1,739,000). In the end 98% of the extraordinary pieces were sold to bidders around the world<\/strong>, Europe and the Middle East accounting for 50%, the Americas for 28%, and Asia for 22%. The sale amassed a total of CHF 180 million<\/strong> ($ 202 million) for philanthropic causes<\/strong>, and a continuation of the auction was planned for November<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Harry Winston natural and cultured pearl and coloured diamond necklace, sold for CHF 6,458,000 \u00a9<\/b>\u00a0Anders Modig<\/span><\/p>\n

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The collection was acquired by Austrian philanthropist Mrs. Horten from the beginning of the 1970s until her demise in 2022 from prestigious houses such as Bulgari, Cartier, Tiffany, Harry Winston and Van Cleef & Arpels. It was however also one of the most contested collections<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Click here to read the entire article<\/a> on Luxus Magazine.<\/p>\n

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Featured photo: \u00a9<\/b>\u00a0Anders Modig<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Luxus Plus was in Geneva in May 2023 when Christie\u2019s wielded the hammer for the sale of the jewellery collection from philanthropist Heidi Horten\u2019s Estate. But despite the success record sale, which totalled CHF 180 million, the planned online continuation of the sale has now been cancelled by Christie\u2019s \u2013 because of the Horten Estate\u2019s complicated provenance with Nazi roots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":121003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"%%post_title%% %%sep%% %%sitetitle%%","_seopress_titles_desc":"After successfully achieving a first auction, Christie's decided to cancel the following one regarding the Heidi Horten sales. ","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"Heidi Horten,auction,sales,jewels,nazi,Christie's","footnotes":""},"categories":[22488],"tags":[23016,23295,23180,22962],"class_list":["post-121006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle-en","tag-auctions-and-art-market","tag-christies-en","tag-luxus-plus-mag-en","tag-watches-and-jewelry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}