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8.500.000 euro….. for a bag

By: Bruno.M1 : July 10th, 2025-19:08

Sold today via Sotheby’s The first ever Hermes Birkin, so the one made for Jane Birkin One of the most iconic designs and being the prototype was a good reason to fetch a crazy price , but nevertheless 8.5 million is pretty crazy I know this has nothing t...

Not any more stupid than the PN Daytona, as others have implied

8.500.000 euro….. for a bag

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Looks like it needs a refurb 😂

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24 mil for a Patek henry graves jr..is also insane

Quite a bit more involved in creating the HG Jr., I would say. A leather bag is just, well, a leather bag...

...and a 1952 Mickey Mantle baseball card is just a little bit of ink on a piece of cardboard.

Fair enough… art is in the eye of the beholder

My wife said (quote) if someone can pay 16 millions for Timex on bund strap ( Newman Daytona) , 8.5 for iconic bag seems pretty reasonable 🤣🤣

That's pretty much it in a nutshell.

Hard to argue , if you are watching this from totally outside. Thanks for spotting, I missed that event ( as observer :) )

I’m with you. This result to me, makes a lot more sense.

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How right she is!

Wise woman 😁👏🏻👍🏻

Indeed! :)

Did your wife actually say "bund strap"? THAT'S impressive!! :)

Yeah, unfortunately she has to live with watch nerd and have no choice but apply lingo to sustain conversations. She also is a Nomos fan and calls Nato Bento strap.

Ha, excellent! Love that Nomos (and Bento strap), too.

Thank you

Love and Passion has no price. I am sure that if we ask to the average guy if it is normal to spend 10 K Euros on a watch, he would say that same: Total madness!

Not madness at all, as it is cheap=currency. Soon, tri££ion$ more are coming just from the States and UK.

Hehehe YES!

Absolutely agree. Just yesterday had conversation with close family member about the subject. I woukd even lower bar to 1000 Eur.

Indeed!

Watches and bags = my daughter’s strategy to drive me to ruin.

Hehehehe... They are true Evils. ;)

More iconic than Newman’s Paul Newman? More broadly recognized? I would think so.

Currency is cheap, there's only one original Birkin... or baseball card, or painting....

Not any more stupid than the PN Daytona, as others have implied

Still relatively cheaper than The Banana on a duct tape :)

As they say....beauty in the eye of th beholder...or an investment?

So true

welcome to the 1% world

It's not crazy, it's Marxism: "The higher the immaterial value of a commodity, the higher its price." Karl Marx

If it had been sold at this price full of Pateks it would have made sense

It comes with a nail clipper though ... no joke!

Am I seeing the number of zeroes right?!!!

Its indeed a bit crazy but i also understand because for those who collect these kind of bags it can be a true icon and a important piece. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I thought talking about price or value is against our TOS?

8.5M for a bag! Seems like a good deal. My buddy paid over twice that in his divorce and this bag looks to be in way better condition.

Unpolished and in completely original condition.

First I have read

How many children a single handbag could feed.

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