Written by: Zhao Zhihan Ryan Chiu
Hong Kong Autumn Auction Weekly was unveiled, and Christie's achieved excellent results.
A Hermès Nile Crocodile Skin Kelly Handbag, just slapped the hammer in this faucet. After a round of competition, the commission was sold for HK$4 million, setting a new global auction record for handbags.
By the way, the previous record was also written by Christie's, and the protagonist is also a Kelly bag, mainly because of the different sizes and no diamonds.
Lot 3844
Rare matte white Himalayan Nile crocodile skin
28 cm Inner sewing diamonds Kelly (Kelly) bag
with 18K white gold and diamond accessories (handbag auction record)
Year: 2021
Size: 28 x 20 x 10 cm
Status rating: 1
Diamond: 229 pieces, total weight 9.2 carats
Estimate: HK$1,800,000 - 3,000,000
transaction price: HK$4,000,000
transaction price: HK$4,000,000
Auction house: Hong Kong Christie's
Special session: Elegant inheritance: Handbags and accessories
The original record of last year's change of hands, and the new record of this transaction, is also a "hard to find a bag" Kelly bag, and the status ratings are both at the highest level, lies in year, size, and diamonds.
- new record｜November 2021 Hong Kong Christie's Auction, 28 cm version, factory in 2021, with diamonds, HK$4 million, transaction
- original record｜November 2020 Hong Kong Christie's Auction, 25 cm version, factory in 2019, no diamonds, HK$3.375 million, transaction
Of course, handmade crocodile leather handbags will also be different in color.
Left: 28 cm Kelly handbag that set the record; right: 25 cm Kelly handbag that set the original record
New record Kelly handbag that set the record has diamonds, original record Kelly handbag that set the record without diamonds
Ladies must be very familiar with Kelly bags. The following introduction is just to make up for the bad things that men who are as ignorant as me.
Time went back to 1837, Thierry Hermès established a horse harness workshop in Paris to provide horse harness refining services to European aristocrats. The brand's first handbag was named Haut à Courroies, and its main purpose was to load saddles. By the 1930s, Hermès designed a new handbag based on Haut à Courroies.
This handbag has always been called Sac à Dépêches until the emergence of "The Princess of the Film" Grace Kelly.
Grace Kelly played the leading role in "The Back Window" directed by Hitchcock
Grace Kelly became the Academy Award winner in 1954
This American actor became a hit in the 1950s and reached the peak of his career in 1954. With the black and white drama "The Country Girl", as well as the "Hitchcock " and "The Back Window" directed by Hitchcock , he swept the position of best actor in the Oscars and other films.
Only two years later, she married Prince Lanier III of Monaco and has since stopped filming.
, a story of a film queen becoming a princess, made her the subject of newspapers and magazines, and the news of her pregnancy is naturally a headline gossip news. At that time, the paparazzi took such a photo - Grace Kelly used Sac à Dépêches to cover her slightly raised belly, making this Hermès handbag a famous product that ladies flock to.
Since then, everyone has called Sac à Dépêches Kelly. In the 1970s, Hermès also officially changed the name of this handbag to Kelly to commemorate this story.
Grace Kelly and her husband Lanier III
