AUCTIONS
A UNIQUE EXPERIENCE AT AUCTION
With more than 20 years of professional experience, Geoffroy Ader is one of the most recognized experts in the field of modern and vintage watches.
After working for the main auction houses, such as Antiquorum Geneva from 2000 to 2004, he joined in 2008 Sotheby’s Geneva to become its European Head of Watches until the end of 2014.
All his years of experience in auctions helped him understand market developments and the challenges for the coming years in the development of off-line and on-line auctions.
Auctions in which he participated have allowed him to acquire a significant knowledge to better understand the future of the auction industry.
AN INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Franco-Swiss citizen, from a family of auctioneers renowned in France, Geoffroy Ader has spent his career between Paris and Geneva for more than 20 years, while participating in major auctions with international auction players in Monaco , London, New York and Hong Kong.
From his first specialized auctions at the Hotel Drouot in Paris alongside his father, Me Antoine Ader, to his experience as European Director of the Haute Horlogerie department at Sotheby’s in Geneva, both as a specialist and auctioneer, he acquired a vast knowledge in modern and vintage watches.
Today he puts his expertise alongside major players like the leading French auction house Artcurial, while as well assisting his numerous fellow experts in the field of modern and vintage watches, all members of Syndicat Français des Experts Professionnels en Oeuvres d’Art et Objets de Collection.
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS AT AUCTION
With more than 20 years of professional experience, Geoffroy Ader is one of the experts who participated in the main auctions of private collections in Europe and abroad. Having dispersed during his first sale to Drouot, alongside his father auctioneer, the private collection of the artist Swatch Kiki Picasso on December 2, 1995, he was then privileged to participate in the sales of important collections that have met with great success and remain today references in the market.
Among the important collections that remain in the collective memory in recent years, we note the names of famous collectors such as Lord Sandberg, Thomas Engel Professor, Theodor Beyer at Antiquorum from 2001 to 2003, Graves Fullerton and George Daniels at Sotheby’s in 2012, the collection from the French artist Arman in Monaco and the Fondation Napoléon in Paris, both conducted in 2017 and 2019 by Artcurial.