Film, design, collecting and the objects that become stories.
The Met Gala broke $100,000 a ticket, Wimbledon’s best seats cost £116,000 for five years, and FIFA let the price of the World Cup final float. The people who run exclusive events have stopped leaving money on the table.
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OB / 02The Agnelli, Delon, Hermès and Wahaha fortunes are all tied up in court. In each case the argument turns on a Swiss address, a Swiss will or a Hong Kong trust.
OB / 03The Arirang tour grossed $465.8mn in 38 shows. In the same months, police concluded that HYBE founder Bang Si-hyuk made ₩263bn by misleading early investors before the company’s listing.
OB / 04Court papers show LVMH agreed in 2002 to buy Hermès shares from the founding family. Nicolas Puech says his stake, now worth about $10bn, vanished. LVMH says it never tried to take it.
OB / 05David Gilmour’s guitar sold for $3.975mn in 2019 and $14.56mn this year. With Johnny Marr’s collection tripling its estimate last week, rock guitars have become trophy assets.
OB / 06A hundred films with enormous worldwide ticket sales, ranked by reported lifetime box office, with release years and individual film records.
OB / 07One hundred of the highest prices paid for paintings, ranked in 2025 dollars after inflation, with each artist, sale year and nominal price.
OB / 08The 50 largest reported transfer fees in football, shown in euros, with the selling and buying clubs and the year of each move.
OB / 09From the Grandmaster Chime to Paul Newman’s Daytona: 100 remarkable watch auction results, ranked by historical US-dollar value, with photographs, stories and sources.
OB / 10Ten remarkable car auction results, with photographs, the stories behind the individual cars, original sale prices and auction-house sources.