Auction week ahead: Christie's, Drouot, and Fellows

From the calendar desk

This Monday, HammerAlert is tracking 2354 upcoming auctions from 132 houses. 402 sales fall inside the next seven days.

The week ahead is shaped by Christie's, Drouot, Fellows, and Sotheby's, with jewellery, modern & contemporary art, watches, design & decorative arts, and photography giving the calendar its main shape.

The point is not to reproduce every sale in the database. It is to make the week readable: where the major rooms are active, which collecting fields are clustering, and which dates deserve a place in the diary before the catalogues start to blur together.

Sales to open first

Begin with Pawnbrokers Jewellery & Watches, Post-War and Contemporary Art Online, and Jewels Online. They are the sales most likely to reward an early look because of the house behind them, the field they sit in, or the timing around them.

For each one, open the sale page first, then step back to the house calendar. That is usually where the pattern becomes legible: a jewellery sale sitting beside watches, a design auction framed by modern art, or a regional week gathering several specialist rooms at once.

HammerAlert is still a calendar, not a catalogue raisonné. Estimates, condition, buyer's premium and bidding terms belong with the auction house. What this note does is point to the sales that merit attention before the week gets noisy.

What gives the week its character

At Fellows, Pawnbrokers Jewellery & Watches, scheduled for 5 October 2026, gives the jewellery thread a clear sale to open first in Birmingham, 19 Augusta Street, B18 6JA. At Christie's, Post-War and Contemporary Art Online, scheduled for 7 October 2026, gives the modern & contemporary art thread a clear sale to open first in London. At Christie's, Jewels Online, scheduled for 6 October 2026, gives the jewellery thread a clear sale to open first in New York. At Sotheby's, Reflections on Pop: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein | Online Sale, scheduled for 9 October 2026, gives the modern & contemporary art thread a clear sale to open first in New York.

Important Jewels adds another Europe date to compare against the main house calendars. 8th October - Contemporary Art adds another Europe date to compare against the main house calendars. Paris Watches Online including White Metal Pocket from Gerd-Rüdiger Lang Collection adds another Europe date to compare against the main house calendars. Intérieurs et décoration adds another Europe date to compare against the main house calendars.

Collectors who follow one field should read sideways. A single watch auction may point to a broader luxury week; a modern art sale may sit beside design, editions or photographs. The value of a shared calendar is seeing those adjacencies at once.

The global agenda

By field, the week is strongest in jewellery, modern & contemporary art, watches, design & decorative arts, and photography.

By geography, the weight sits with United Kingdom, Europe, United States, and Asia & Pacific.

If a field appears across several houses, start by comparing the category page. If one auctioneer dominates the week, the house page is cleaner. The best route depends on whether you are following objects, rooms or geography.

Before the gavel

Use this article as the Monday read, then return to the live calendar as the week changes. Auction houses can add catalogues, shift sessions, extend timed sales or publish viewing details after this note goes out.

For ongoing monitoring, follow the linked house, category and region pages, or create a HammerAlert account to keep the relevant sales in one personal auction calendar.

Open the sales mentioned

These are the live sale and calendar pages behind the note:

• Pawnbrokers Jewellery & Watches (Fellows, 5 October 2026, Jewellery)
• Post-War and Contemporary Art Online (Christie's, 7 October 2026, Modern & Contemporary Art)
• Jewels Online (Christie's, 6 October 2026, Jewellery)
• Reflections on Pop: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein | Online Sale (Sotheby's, 9 October 2026, Modern & Contemporary Art)
• Important Jewels (Drouot, 8 October 2026, Jewellery)
• 8th October - Contemporary Art (Drouot, 8 October 2026, Modern & Contemporary Art)
• Paris Watches Online including White Metal Pocket from Gerd-Rüdiger Lang Collection (Cornette de Saint Cyr, 8 October 2026, Watches)
• Intérieurs et décoration (De Baecque, 11 October 2026, Design & Decorative Arts)

The week in numbers

These counts come from the live HammerAlert calendar at publication time and give the article its market shape.