Monaco's harbourside auction house, where jewels, watches and masterpieces change hands under the gavel.
Founded by Franck Baille and Chantal Beauvois.
It occupies two rooms at 10 to 12 Quai Antoine 1er on the port of Monaco, a building that was once a foundry for artists of the École de Nice.
It holds around thirty catalogued auctions a year, covering jewellery, watches, paintings, sculpture, wine and spirits.
Chantal Beauvois is a gemologist who spent 18 years in the jewellery department of Tajan, while Franck Baille is an art expert and author.
A Fernando Botero bronze, Dancing Couple, sold there for €1.4 million under the hammer, nearly double its estimate.
It has representatives in Paris, Geneva, Brussels and Milan and associates in Los Angeles, New York, Beirut and Singapore.
A gavel falls on the quayside and its ripple becomes a necklace of light.
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