“The Numbers Are Too Big Now”: Inside the Sale of the Record-Obliterating $31 Million Patek Philippe Over the weekend, a Patek Philippe wristwatch sold for $31 million. Why? And what does it all mean? BY CAM WOLF When the bidding for the Patek Philippe Grandmaster Chime reference 6300A reached 18 million Swiss francs, there should have been pandemonium. It is the sort of momentous occasion that warrants a balloon drop, cannons firing confetti, or a Gatorade bath. Instead, ove