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An Auctioneer Who Can Sell Almost Anything, at Record Prices
Rahul Kadakia of Christie’s has sold the most expensive wristwatch, the priciest blue diamond and even, early on, a salad.
Rahul Kadakia has been at Christie’s since 1996. Credit.Christie’s
By Kathleen Beckett
April 6, 2021, 5:06 a.m. ET
Rahul Kadakia may have brought the hammer down on the auction world’s priciest wristwatch sale 31 million Swiss francs ($33 million) for a Patek Philippe Grandmaster Chime but an early career experience was far less lofty.
“Sell me this salad,” François Curiel, then Christie’s global head of jewelry and chairman of its European operations, instructed a 24-year-old Mr. Kadakia one day at lunch in Geneva.