BRETT O’CONNOR NAMED SENIOR DIRECTOR, PRIVATE SALES JEWELRY AND TIMEPIECES
Heritage Auctions has announced that Brett O’Connor, a leading expert with more than 27 years of global experience in jewelry and timepiece auctions, has joined its Dallas office as Senior Director, Private Sales Jewelry and Timepieces. He will work with Heritage Auctions’ Jewelry and Watches & Timepieces teams on their auctions and with a focus on expanding Heritage’s platform for private sales.
“We are thrilled that Brett is joining us,” says Steve Ivy, Co-Chairman of Heritage Auctions. “He brings a wealth of global experience to Heritage Auctions, and we are delighted to welcome him to our Dallas headquarters, 500 employees strong.”
O’Connor brings extensive experience in executive leadership roles at auction houses around the world.
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As Senior Vice President at Bonhams in New York, he led the North American Jewelry team and helped rebuild the Hong Kong division. Before that, he served as Senior Vice President at Sotheby’s in New York, Hong Kong and Switzerland, providing strategic oversight of property collection and auction operations across multiple locations, and as a renowned auctioneer in the United States, Europe and Asia. As Assistant Vice President at Christie’s in New York, O’Connor executed nearly a dozen auctions per year, overseeing a range of responsibilities including sourcing, valuation, catalog production and serving as a contributing editor to an antiques and collectibles book.
O’Connor has turned a childhood interest in minerals and stones into a career as one of the auction world’s leading gemstones experts, studying at the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) en route to becoming a Graduate Jeweler Gemologist. Since the mid-1990s, he has utilized his wealth of knowledge as an appraiser and renowned auctioneer at the world’s top auction houses.
At Heritage, he will help expand the portal for private transactions working closely with the directors of Fine Jewelry & Timepieces.
“The Jewelry and Timepieces department look forward to future growth opportunities,” says Jill Burgum, Senior Director of Fine Jewelry at Heritage Auctions. “Brett has the knowledge and experience to drive the expansion. We welcome him to our team.”
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This directory appears in the Spring 2021 edition of The Intelligent Collector magazine.