Jockey Club.

In the private room.

Vice Chairman Zhou and Young Master Xu chatted happily.

Towards the end, Director Huang suddenly asked, "Zhang Sheng, just now we saw no light on the glass outside, is there a problem with the lighting facilities in the private room?" ”

Zhang Liang waved his hand and said, "No, no, we're looking at things." ”

Deputy Dong Zhou glanced at Zhao Liyi, who was talking to Wang Chen, turned around and said with a wry smile: "Zhang Sheng, your identity is unusual, it's better not to do this, otherwise the lady will know...... And then pass it on to your father-in-law's ears...... Well, it's not so good anyway. ”

Young Master Xu immediately explained for Zhang Liang: "Our Brother Zhang is not that kind of person, Dong Chou, you can't talk nonsense, when you look back, your sister-in-law hears rumors, Brother Zhang has no good life." ”

"Yes, Zhang Sheng's wife, it's not that you don't know what your status is. Liu Wei buried a sentence, "You are in your sixties, and you are still so disrespectful to the old." ”

Wang Chen, who was not far from them, listened carefully to his words.

Well?

Could it be that Zhang Liang has a higher status than Liu Wei and Zheng Gang because of his wife?

No wonder Zhang Liang didn't take the woman away last night, and finally cheapened Lin Jiajia, who was one meter and eight long legs, to Wang Chen and Young Master Xu.

Wang Chen was a little curious, who is Zhang Liang's wife? It's just that it's inconvenient to ask this kind of thing, so he has to guess by himself.

After being said twice, Vice Chairman Zhou realized the gaffe and apologized again and again: "I'm sorry, Zhang Sheng is really sorry, I didn't mean to." ”

Zhang Liang waved his hand generously, "It's out of the way." After hesitating, he may want to prove his innocence, even if there are only three outsiders, he also doesn't want to leave a handle, explaining: "Actually, we turned off the lights just now to see a treasure." ”

Yang Long said: "Yes, it's a magical treasure." ”

Director Huang was surprised: "What can make you all say baby?"

Young Master Xu and the others glanced at each other.

Finally, Zheng Gang shouted: "Chenzai, is it convenient for us to say?"

Oh, the pearl of the night.

What can't be said about this?

Dude is thinking about selling it!

Wang Chen stopped talking to Zhao Liyi and said sideways, "No problem." ”

Seeing this, Deputy Dong Zhou was a little curious: "What kind of treasure is it?"

Liu Wei said mysteriously: "Night! Ming! Zhu!"

Director Huang couldn't help but laugh out loud and said, "I heard Cheng Sheng, president of Sotheby's Asia, say, well, he is here today, and in the private room next door, Mr. Cheng said that most of the night pearls are made of fluorite, and fluorite is not expensive, how many of you ...... Alas. ”

"Hey, can we still know that the so-called night pearl on the market is made of fluorite?" Young Master Xu said angrily: "According to our observation, what we saw just now was not a fake and shoddy night pearl made of fluorite, but a priceless real night pearl like the one recorded in the ancient books." ”

Deputy Dong Zhou said disapprovingly: "Is there really a night pearl in this world? ”

"Why isn't there a real Night Pearl?" Young Master Xu lost his temper a little and said, "That's because you are shallow, by the way, didn't Director Huang just say that Mr. Cheng, the president of Sotheby's, is next door?

Director Huang didn't seem to be afraid of Young Master Xu, and said a little aggressively: "Okay, I'll go and Cheng Sheng call over." ”

Wang Chen listened very speechlessly, one is in his forties, the other is twenty-seven or eighteen years old, how can the temper of the two be a bit like children, even if they fight, they still have to find a "referee" to decide the winner?

Director Huang beckoned to the woman who had gone through the membership procedures for Wang Chen, "Sasha, let's go, Cheng Sheng, please come over." ”

The woman known as Sasha replied, "Okay." Then she hurried out again.

Wang Chen glanced at it, and continued to lower his head to find Zhao Li to understand the Jockey Club.

Five minutes later, a man in his forties came from outside the unclosed door, and said very heartily: "Hehe, Young Master Xu invited, I definitely have to come." ”

As soon as the words fell, a middle-aged man wearing glasses ran in, if Wang Chen guessed correctly, it should be Mr. Cheng, the president of Sotheby's Asia.

Sure enough, as soon as this person came in, Director Huang immediately said, "Cheng Sheng, come and explain to Young Master Xu what the Night Pearl is." ”

Mr. Cheng couldn't laugh or cry when he heard this, and said, "That's what you called me?"

On the contrary, Young Master Xu, who was fighting just now, said politely: "Mr. Cheng, I'm sorry, did you disturb your business?"

"No, I'm guessing with them what number of horses will be tonight. Mr. Cheng sat down next to Wang Chen as he spoke, looked at Director Huang and said, "Generally speaking, the night pearls on the market are polished from fluorite, which is not expensive, and the cost price is hundreds of Hong Kong dollars. ”

"Oh, Young Master Xu, I'm not lying, am I?" said Director Huang Nunu.

Young Master Xu was a little sullen, he didn't play with the collection for a long time, and it wasn't too short, sometimes he would be beaten, but the fluorite was not fluorite or not.

Mr. Cheng, a professional, said so, and Young Master Xu really didn't know what to say, but he was still a little unwilling, and said, "Xiao Wang, do you mind showing them your night pearl?"

Looking at the night pearl and not losing it, Wang Chen naturally had no opinion, and said, "Yes." ”

Young Master Xu hurriedly said, "Help turn off the lights." As he spoke, he reached out to Wang Chen to ask for the Night Pearl Box.

Wang Chen handed over the box containing the night pearl.

Young Master Xu opened the box.

At this point, Sasha turns off the lights.

The previous miraculous scene happened again, and the glow of green hair emanated from the beads.

It's not strong, it's soft, but the beads are faintly illuminated by light in a radius of fifty centimeters, although it is not very clear, but the naked eye can see something, such as the Chinese cigarette in front of Zhang Liang, such as the Patek Philippe watch that Liu Wei wears on his wrist.

You must know that this room is made of a fully sealed building, if you don't turn on the lights, the black can not see the five fingers, and the light emitted by the night pearl is almost up to the range illuminated by the oil lamp, you can imagine how amazing it is.

Director Huang, who had previously shouted that the Night Pearl was made of fluorite, looked at the Night Pearl with a stunned face at the moment, and said in surprise: "This ...... This ......"

Young Master Xu said triumphantly: "How is it? Is it made of fluorite?"

Instead, Mr. Cheng inhaled and said, "Oh my God! This is an authentic glass meteorite night pearl!" After speaking, he realized that he was a little out of shape, and hurriedly added, "It may really be a glass meteorite night pearl, which is very, very rare." ”

He used two verys in a row, plus the word rare, you can imagine how shocked he was by Wang Chen's night pearl.

Hearing this, Wang Chen was itchy and said, "Mr. Cheng, how much do you think this night pearl is worth?"

Mr. Cheng didn't answer positively, "This is not easy to say, as far as I know, last year there was a glass meteorite night pearl auction price of 12 million RMB, in addition, the United States Lonsdale stone night pearl price of 25 million US dollars, of course, there are ordinary meteorite night pearls are only worth a few million, without special identification, I can't say." ”

didn't hear the answer he wanted, Wang Chen was a little disappointed.

After admiring the bright light of the night pearl in the dark night, the indoor lights were turned on again.

Young Master Xu was angry, and said to Director Huang: "Now I believe that the Night Pearl is not all made of fluorite, right?

Director Huang has no interest in collecting at all, just now he was pretending to be forced by pure hearsay, and now he was slapped in the face, embarrassed and didn't know how to reply, he was a wonderful person, changed the topic and said: "Cheng Sheng, isn't Sotheby's collecting the collection to be auctioned in the spring of next year?

Listed at Sotheby's?

Wang Chen's ears immediately pricked up, wanting to hear what Mr. Cheng had to say.

Young Master Xu, Zheng Gang, Liu Wei and others are obviously very interested in the Night Pearl, but they are not sure whether it is true or not, they dare not make a move easily, if this Night Pearl is identified as genuine by Sotheby's, when it comes to the auction, they will naturally make a move, maybe they will spend a little more money, but at least they will not be beaten.

It is not only them who are interested, but also Zhao Liyi, Deputy Dong Zhou and others.

Mr. Cheng pondered for a moment and said: "Like a meteorite night pearl, as long as the material is not too bad, any auction house will rush to ask for it, especially this night pearl is naturally rounded, and the light released is particularly clear, and the surface layer does not see the bubble cave caused by the high temperature of falling from high altitude, which belongs to the top grade, and now the main problem is to determine whether this night pearl is permanently luminous, or a long afterglow phosphore, if the long afterglow phosmetry type, it is worth at most three or five million, and if it is a permanent glow, the value will be doubled." ”

There are quite a lot of doorways inside, Wang Chen didn't understand, and asked: "What is permanent luminescence, and what is long afterglow phosphorescent type?"

None of the others present understood much, so they waited for Mr. Cheng to explain.

Mr. Cheng said very seriously: "The long afterglow phosphorescent luminous night pearl generally refers to the fact that the activator of phosphorescent weight is not emitting, and must rely on the external sunlight and ultraviolet light source to excite before it can emit light, and there are no less than 100 kinds of phosphors commonly used today, and their chemical composition is divalent metal except for alkali metal halides, what sulfides, selenides, tellurides, silicates, aluminates, tungstate, phosphates and halogen phosphates. ”

Wang Chen nodded thoughtfully, well, I still don't understand.

Mr. Cheng also said, "As for the permanent luminous night pearl, it does not need to be excited with the help of any external energy, but relies on its own activators, such as 14C, 3H, 147Pm, 226Ra, 232Th and other radioactive isotopes, which can be excited and emitted by itself." ”

Again, a whole bunch of technical terms.

As the head of the world's top auction company Sotheby's in Asia, he knows a lot.

Anyway, Wang Chen looked confused when he heard it.

Don't talk about him, there is one person present, all of them are full of black question marks, and they don't understand what Mr. Cheng is talking about.

After that, Mr. Cheng didn't give everyone a chance to speak, and immediately turned his head to look at Wang Chen, "Wang Sheng, are you interested in participating this night pearl in the Sotheby's spring auction?"

Of course Wang Chen wants to realize it, the night pearl is a treasure in the hands of people who know the goods, and it is not as practical as a flashlight in his own hands, he nodded and said: "Interested, I just don't know how your auction house charges?"

Seeing the two talking about business, everyone stopped talking.

"There is no upfront charge except for the deposit. Mr. Cheng said: "The main reason is that we at Sotheby's generally do not accept personal collections, in addition, including collection identification, publicity, speculation and other fees, we do not charge in the early stage, but once the auction is unsuccessful, our company will charge 3% of the unsold fee, of course, if you are a member of Sotheby's, pay 800,000 Hong Kong dollars per year membership fee, even if the auction is unsuccessful, we do not charge the unsold fee." ”

Wang Chen asked again: "What about the transaction commission?"

Mr. Cheng said: "In addition to the 3% commission tax, a 25% commission will be levied on lots below US$300,000, a 20% commission on lots above US$300,000 and less than US$3 million, and a 12.9% commission on lots above US$3 million. ”

the groove.

Expensive commissions.

Wang Chen has heard that general auction houses charge a maximum of 10% of the transaction commission, and Sotheby's is a bit dark.

I don't know if I can see his inner thoughts, Mr. Cheng said lightly: "The probability of a normal collection being sold at Sotheby's is far lower than that of other auction houses, in addition, whether a collection can be sold and sold at a good price, the market is very important, the platform is very important, and a good platform can provide you with a series of packaging for the collection, such as early network publicity, TV media and magazine publicity, catalogue publicity, preview publicity, Promotion and so on, it can also bring high-quality potential buyers to your collection, such as Sotheby's buyers are really powerful and very high-end people in the society, and it is easier for your collection to sell for a high price!"

Liu Wei interjected, "Xiao Wang, this is indeed the case. ”

Zheng Gang also said, "If it weren't for the chance to meet Cheng Sheng here today, you wouldn't have a chance to get on Sotheby's even with the best collections, the main reason is that it doesn't solicit collections from individual collectors, do you know what I mean?"

Hearing this, Wang Chen knew that they had to seize a good opportunity by themselves, Sotheby's is not like some so-called small auctions in China, and generally does not cheat people, he said: "Mr. Cheng, can I let this night pearl be auctioned at Sotheby's?"

"If you tell the rest of our staff, it's definitely not going to work, but I have some privileges. Mr. Cheng smiled and said, "In this way, I will give you a Sotheby's membership later, so that you can have good things to send to Sotheby's in the future." ”

Wang Chen's eyes blinked, "You can send it to shoot at any time in the future?"

"Yes. Mr. Cheng replied: "However, Sotheby's Hong Kong generally only holds two auctions a year, divided into autumn auctions and spring auctions, of course, our company has auction houses in more than 100 cities around the world, and the total number of auctions can be as high as more than 300 times a year. ”

Performance indicators are available for each region.

Wang Chen knew this in his heart, he thought about it, "Okay, then when will we take the things to your company for appraisal, and then sign the consignment auction contract?"

Mr. Cheng looked at his watch, "It's still early before the horse racing time, it's better to choose a day than to hit the day, just go now, the identification will be very fast." ”

Wang Chen said inexplicably: "I heard in China that the appraisal will take several days. ”

"Hehe, that's basically a lie. Mr. Cheng shook his head and said: "If the normal auction house appraisal, it can basically be controlled within an hour, and if it is fast, it can be within ten minutes, we at Sotheby's have the most advanced appraisal instruments and appraisers, many times, whether the same collection is real or not, how much it is worth, the appraiser can tell at a glance, after all, we eat this line of food." ”

Learn a lot.

Today, Wang Chen finally understood what the world's top auction house was, he didn't say anything, got up and went to Sotheby's with Mr. Cheng, because he was not familiar with the place, Young Master Xu and Zhao Liyi followed.

……

Not far from the Jockey Club.

Sotheby's is also in Causeway Bay.

Gloughed Beach, Sotheby's Hong Kong.

As soon as he walked in, Wang Chen felt the breath of all kinds of art, the walls were covered with all kinds of oil paintings, and he walked in and entered the office area, where many glass cabinets were filled with unknown collections.

Mr. Cheng didn't explain much to them, but took someone straight to the office, and then called someone to come and get something for identification.

in the office.

Mr. Cheng had just finished making a phone call.

Wang Chen suddenly thought that he still had a pigeon's blood ruby, hesitated, and said: "Mr. Cheng, I have a relatively large pigeon's blood ruby in addition to the night pearl, I don't know if I can entrust your company to auction it?"

"Below five carats are basically not commissioned. Mr. Cheng said a little.

"I don't know exactly how many carats my pigeon's blood ruby is, but it should be no less than ten carats. Wang Chen said.

"Ten carats?pigeon blood ruby?" Mr. Cheng, who was still a little forced before, suddenly looked over, I don't know if he was interested, he didn't sit at the desk anymore, "Take it out and I'll take a look." ”

Wang Chen took out the box containing the ruby and opened it.

Young Master Xu and Zhao Liyi had already met, and they looked very calm.

Mr. Cheng is also well-informed, so naturally it is impossible to be fussed by a ten-carat ruby, but when he saw such a big ruby, he still couldn't help but admire: "What a ruby, okay, I will let someone take it to identify it later, if it is really more than ten carats, it is sure to be a pigeon's blood ruby, then our spring auction will be lively." He looked at Wang Chen's eyes with a little appreciation, "Wang Sheng, I didn't expect you to have a lot of classic collections at a young age." ”

Wang Chen said modestly: "I was lucky to buy it." ”

Mr. Cheng doesn't think so, "Luck is based on strength, if you only have a night pearl, maybe I will think that you are indeed lucky, but you took out such a large pigeon's blood ruby with such a large pure color, I think you are a very capable person." ”

was touted, Wang Chen felt a little fluttering, look, in the end, he is a big man with a head and a face, he speaks so beautifully, buddy likes people like you.

A short time later, the appraiser came.

Two appraisers took the Night Pearl and the pigeon's blood ruby for identification.

Wang Chen was aimlessly chatting with Mr. Cheng and Young Master Xu.

……

An hour later.

The results of the appraisal and valuation are out.

Sotheby's staff was delivered directly to the office.

Mr. Cheng took it and looked at it, he was very satisfied, looked at Wang Chen and said, "Chenzai, after identification, it is confirmed that there is nothing wrong with your things, and you can basically confirm the authenticity." ”

Wang Chen said: "What about the starting price?"

"Starting price?" Mr. Cheng was stunned, and then said with a smile: "We are not evaluating the starting price, but the space from the lowest price to the highest price, such as your pigeon's blood ruby, our appraiser evaluates between 37.55 million Hong Kong dollars and 47.2 million Hong Kong dollars." ”

"How much?" Wang Chen thought he had heard it wrong, so much?

Zhao Liyi's eyes widened, looking at Wang Chen in disbelief, and then at Mr. Cheng.

However, Young Master Xu looked very calm.

Mr. Cheng thought that Wang Chen was too little, and explained: " Do you want to say that the 10.05 carat oval Burmese natural pigeon's blood ruby ring exhibited by Clady's in Beijing Art Space in November 16 did reach an astonishing 68.8 million to 98 million Hong Kong dollars before the auction, and it is true that your pigeon's blood ruby even reached 10.21 carats, it stands to reason that the price should be more expensive than the Burmese pigeon's blood ruby, but its shape is better than yours, oval, just enough to be embedded in the ring, and yours is a little irregular, maybe it will have to be processed to make a ring, the assessment is between 37.55 million and 47.2 million Hong Kong dollars. ”

Wang Chen is too little, he feels that it is much higher than he imagined, and when he heard Mr. Cheng's explanation, his face was about to smile, and he said, "Okay, that's all." ”

"Well, I'll tell you about the Night Pearl. Mr. Cheng looked at the appraisal report, "Your night pearl is a glass meteorite night pearl, weighing one hundred and thirty-eight grams, the shape is extremely round, the color and luster are permanently luminous, the value is very high, there is an element in it that we can't judge, if it is auctioned, it is likely to attract many scientific researchers to participate, the price range given by my company's appraisers is between 99.8 million and 122.8 million, do you have any opinions?"

it!

It's all hundreds of millions?

Wang Chen was really stunned.

Not only him, Zhao Liyi covered her cherry mouth!

Even Young Master Xu, who had always been calm, showed a slightly stunned expression at this moment.

Of course, Wang Chen didn't have any opinions, and hurriedly said: "No, no, just follow your company's plan." ”

"Good. Mr. Cheng snapped his fingers, "Then let's take a look at the "Consignment Auction Agreement". As he spoke, he took out a contract from the drawer and handed it over, "Look, if you don't have any opinions, we can sign a contract." ”

After taking the contract, Wang Chen looked carefully.

What is the consignor, the name of the auction unit, the residence, the legal representative of these basic information, and then the name of the auction object and the number of items, etc., there is a line of auction reserve price below, after Mr. Cheng explained, Wang Chen roughly understands what it means, that is, he opens a price, if the auction is lower than this price, it is not considered a transaction, in addition to the time, place, auction price end period, etc.

The contract is no longer formal.

However, Wang Chen's eyes were still dark.

Why?

Because the auction date on it says that the Sotheby's spring auction will not start until April 3 next year, and in addition, a deposit of 10% of the minimum appraisal price of the item will be paid.

In other words, Wang Chen was asked to take out 13,735,000 Hong Kong dollars at once.

Wang Chen was a little sad, he had to spend his own money before the things were sold.

He thought about it for a long time, and finally decided to entrust things to Sotheby's for auction, the main reason is not to use money in a hurry, but to use money in a hurry, Wang Chen will not agree to wait until April 3 next year, although he is very short of money now, his main purpose is to get in touch with Sotheby's, so that good things can be sent to auction in the future.

The two parties signed a commission contract.

Young Master Xu paid nearly 14 million Hong Kong dollars for Wang Chen's entrustment money first, and he had to pay it back when he returned to the mainland.

In the end, Mr. Cheng applied for a Sotheby's membership for Wang Chen for free.

When he got the membership certificate, Wang Chen was a little excited, he was no longer rootless duckweed, if there was anything valuable that could be sent to a large and powerful auction company like Sotheby's to participate in the auction, generally speaking, he would definitely be able to make more money than he made from private transactions.

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