Frank Schilling’s watch.
It was the sale of the century: a collection of Frank Schilling’s most exclusive brand watches was auctioned at the prestige auction house Christie’s.
The auction brought in more than $10 million dollars; among the watches that were sold several belonged to popular uber-domainer Frank.
A particular piece belonging to Frank brought in more than $600,000 – far more than all of Frank Schilling’s revenue from the sale of his .tv portfolio.
An early adopter of alternate TLDs, Frank displayed sensibility with regards to this over-rated TLD and dropped .tv domains en masse a few months ago.
Despite the high overtones of the Christie’s auction, Frank was devastated to discover that among the watches that were sold was his Mickey Mouse watch.
“I had this watch from when I was five, when I visited Disneyland with my parents”, said Frank, visibly upset.
“It was a gift from Grandpa Frank that I loved dearly. It’s the watch I wore every day until middle school when calculator watches became all the rage”, he added. “The watch was included in the auction by accident and I never intended to sell it.”
Tommy Huyitt, lucky buyer of the vintage 1974 Mickey Mouse watch, paid $15,000 for the popular edition that was discontinued only one year later.
Tommy plans to display it at a museum of domainer memorabilia.
Some of his other acquisitions include Rick Schwartz’s wooden riding horse, Kevin Ham’s collection of yo-yo toys and Howard Neu’s 1945 Monopoly game which he sold to finance his college education.
I really hated to part with that game. But then I sold SORRY, STRATEGO and LIFE to finance Law School.
Howard, that was a great deal!
I love Mickey Memorabilia. Lucky Tommy Huyitt! I collect everything – mugs, toys, figurines, watches, mickey mouse clothes, the lot. Some say it’s all kids stuff, but when you look at the old mickey comics, there isn’t anything childish about it 😛
So far, I have only saw one guy wearing a watch …..and that was a cheap watch.
Watch is ………..a gonner