The public sale home will host its first sequence of auctions within the emirate this December, with occasions starting in September.
The primary public sale will happen in October throughout ‘The NBA Abu Dhabi Video games 2025 offered by ADQ’, resulting in Abu Dhabi Collectors’ Week from December 2-5.
“Abu Dhabi is the place heritage transcends time and connoisseurship is a lifestyle. With the unique international debut of Collectors’ Week within the capital, we unveil greater than uncommon and distinctive items – we reaffirm town’s cultural depth, formed by the quiet energy of true luxurious,” Noora Al Foulathi, Head of Abu Dhabi Retail stated in a press release.
Desert Rose Diamond, Rolex Albino Daytona headline Sotheby’s Abu Dhabi December gross sales
The December sequence will function excessive jewelry, uncommon timepieces, collector automobiles and actual property from RM Sotheby’s and Sotheby’s Concierge Auctions, alongside a effective artwork exhibition.
Occasions will happen at The St. Regis Saadiyat Island Resort, concluding with an public sale on Abu Dhabi’s shores.
Saadiyat Island homes the Louvre Abu Dhabi and can host the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi and Zayed Nationwide Museum.
The Collectors’ Week coincides with Components One Grand Prix, Milken Institute Center East and Africa Summit 2025, Abu Dhabi Finance Week, and Bitcoin MENA.
“By any measure, Abu Dhabi has turn out to be a number one international vacation spot for tradition and luxurious. In that spirit, we’re excited to hitch forces with ADIO to current a imaginative and prescient of the longer term for gathering and luxurious experiences. Our December showcase on Saadiyat Island, throughout one of many busiest weeks within the Abu Dhabi calendar, will likely be unmissable for collectors throughout the area and internationally,” Katia Nounou Boueiz, Head of Sotheby’s UAE & Deputy Chairman, Center East defined.
Sale highlights will journey to Sotheby’s areas worldwide earlier than the auctions.
RM Sotheby’s has partnered with McLaren Racing to supply three competitors automobiles from the staff’s racing portfolio. McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown introduced the ‘Triple Crown’ mission throughout Monterey Automobile Week.
The mission features a 2026 McLaren Components 1 Workforce automotive, a 2027 McLaren United AS racer from the World Endurance Championship, and a 2026 Arrow McLaren IndyCar Workforce Indianapolis 500 race-driven INDYCAR from the NTT INDYCAR SERIES. The automobiles will likely be auctioned on 5 December in the course of the closing Components 1 race of the season.
Consumers will obtain experiences together with excursions of McLaren’s websites, VIP tickets and entry to McLaren highway and race automotive buy choices.
A 2017 Pagani Zonda 760 Riviera will likely be auctioned with an estimate of $9.5-10.5 million. The Pagani manufacturing unit created this instance primarily based on a Zonda F and reimagined it in Riviera specification in 2017. The automotive produces 750 hp and options pearl white paint with blue accents and carbon fibre.
A 2010 Aston Martin One-77, considered one of 77 examples constructed, carries an estimate of $1.3-1.6 million. The Pearl White automotive can attain 220 mph and was designed to compete with hypercars of its period.
A single-owner assortment of jewelry and watches assembled over many years types the centrepiece of Collectors’ Week. The gathering combines uncommon diamonds and gems with signed items by jewellers and classic and fashionable timepieces. It’s estimated to attain greater than $20 million.
The Desert Rose, the biggest Fancy Vivid Orangy Pink Diamond graded, weighs 31.86 carats. The pear-shaped diamond shows pink and orange colors and was featured in Sotheby’s ‘Past: The World’s Rarest Diamonds’ exhibition in Abu Dhabi in April. It carries an estimate of $5-7 million.
A Rolex “Oyster Albino” Daytona, reference 6263, produced within the late Nineteen Sixties and early Nineteen Seventies, will likely be provided. The watch incorporates a monochromatic silver dial and subsidiary registers, departing from normal Cosmograph Daytona contrasting sub-dials. Solely a handful of examples exist, with Eric Clapton’s watch showing at public sale seventeen years in the past. The estimate is $500,000 to $1 million.
In October 2024, ADQ introduced a minority fairness funding in Sotheby’s, marking the biggest funding within the artwork business since Patrick Drahi’s acquisition of the public sale home in 2019. The funding enabled Sotheby’s to ascertain presence within the area.
Sotheby’s has included in Abu Dhabi with bodily presence alongside workplaces in Dubai and Riyadh. In April, Sotheby’s and ADIO offered diamonds price greater than $100 million on the Bassam Freiha Basis in Abu Dhabi.
“At Sotheby’s, we now have taken unbelievable strides to cement our place as a worldwide powerhouse for luxurious. This unprecedented public sale week – and all the occasions that may lead as much as it – is poised to showcase the perfect of what Sotheby’s has to supply, and we’re thrilled to already be capable of announce that the week will likely be anchored by a single-owner assortment replete with fine quality jewelry and watches, alongside unparalleled cars. With the Center East – and the UAE specifically – as one of the vital dynamic drivers of the posh business, we may have chosen no higher residence to do that than Abu Dhabi,” Josh Pullan, World Head of Sotheby’s Luxurious Division stated.
“Sotheby’s incorporation in Abu Dhabi marks a big milestone in our ongoing dedication to the UAE and the broader Center East. This strategic transfer displays our deep confidence within the area’s dynamic cultural panorama and our rising partnerships with its visionary leaders, collectors, and establishments. We stay up for contributing meaningfully to the UAE’s vibrant artwork ecosystem and increasing our presence throughout the area,” Jean-Luc Berrebi, Sotheby’s board member centered on increasing collaboration with the UAE added.
As the federal government automobile chargeable for accelerating Abu Dhabi’s financial development, ADIO’s retail growth initiatives be certain that liveability and group well-being are on the centre of financial diversification efforts.
ADIO is dedicated to constructing a luxurious retail panorama, outlined by client experiences, product choices, and a collector’s market.