latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
64
Houses
2
Last sold
25 days ago
Bowmore 1988 31 Year Old Timeless Series is a collectable Scotch whisky from Bowmore aged 31 years. Based on 64 recorded auction lots across 30 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £1,800, with the most recent sale at £900. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £900 (low) to £2,300 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Bowmore 1988 31 Year Old Timeless Series is £770–£1,030 (±14% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Bowmore 1988 31 Year Old Timeless Series is down 50%, with a 6-month trend of -21.7% (down). wsky1 aggregates hammer prices from major public Scotch whisky auctions including Scotch Whisky Auctions, Whisky Auctioneer, and Bonhams. All prices are in GBP and exclude buyer's premium (typically 24–28% additional at major houses). Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Bowmore is a whisky distillery. Bowmore 1988 31 Year Old Timeless Series is an age-stated bottling at 31 years old, distilled in 1988.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1988), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 31-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Named / limited release
Released as seriestimeless, a named edition rather than part of the standard core range.
These are scarcity and demand signals drawn from the bottle's own attributes — they describe the bottle, not a prediction of future price. Not investment advice.
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Latest sale
£900
24-month median
£1,800
24-month high
£2,300
24-month low
£900
Estimated value · likely range
£770–£1,030 ±14%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Scarce at auctiona good find when it appears
Seen at auction
14 lots
Cadence
≈ 1 per month
Trend
▲ 56% vs prior year
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 5% of tracked bottles
Last seen
25 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£1,800
Median hammer price blended across every recorded sale at all 2 auction houses below — a single figure that smooths house-to-house variation.
| Auction house | Price points | Latest hammer | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotch Whisky Auctions | 45 | £900 | £1,800 |
| Whisky Hammer | 13 | £920 | £1,700 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £900 | 1 |
| July 2026 | £900 | 1 |
| May 2026 | £920 | 4 |
| February 2026 | £1,250 | 2 |
| December 2025 | £1,500 | 2 |
| October 2025 | £950 | 4 |
| April 2025 | £1,150 | 2 |
| February 2025 | £1,600 | 2 |
| November 2024 | £1,600 | 2 |
| September 2024 | £1,500 | 3 |
| June 2024 | £1,800 | 2 |
| November 2023 | £1,700 | 2 |
Bowmore 1988 31 Year Old Timeless Series appeared in 14 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — scarce at auction (a good find when it appears). That is up 56% on the previous year. It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 5% by auction activity among the 29,829 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Bowmore 1988 31 Year Old Timeless Series at auction is £900. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £1,800, with a high of £2,300 and a low of £900. All prices are in GBP and exclude buyer's premium. Data is aggregated from major auction houses including Scotch Whisky Auctions, Whisky Auctioneer, and Bonhams.
Bowmore 1988 31 Year Old Timeless Series is down 50% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 21.7%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Bowmore 1988 31 Year Old Timeless Series regularly appears at major Scotch whisky auction houses including Scotch Whisky Auctions (Scotland), Whisky Auctioneer (Scotland), Just Whisky, Whisky Hammer, and Bonhams. The current median hammer price is £1,800 (excluding buyer's premium). At most major houses, buyer's premium adds 24–28% on top of hammer for the buyer; sellers typically receive the hammer price minus a sales commission of 5–15%.
Over the past 12 months Bowmore 1988 31 Year Old Timeless Series has moved down 50%, with a current median hammer price of £1,800. The bottle has been observed at auction across 64 recorded lots in our database. wsky1 provides hammer-price data for informational purposes only — not investment advice. Whisky is an illiquid alternative asset; secondary-market value depends heavily on bottle condition, fill level, label integrity, and timing.
wsky1 ingests public auction results from major auction houses (via direct scraping of Scotch Whisky Auctions, Whisky Auctioneer, Bonhams, and Whisky Hammer, plus aggregated data from WhiskyHunter). For each bottle, we group hammer prices by year-month and compute the median price per month. The figures shown — latest £900, 24-month median £1,800 — are derived from this monthly-median methodology. All prices are hammer prices in GBP, excluding buyer's premium.
No. All prices on wsky1 are hammer prices only. Buyer's premium at major Scotch whisky auction houses currently runs at 24–28% on top of the hammer price. A bottle of Bowmore 1988 31 Year Old Timeless Series that hammers at £900 would cost the buyer approximately £1,134 all-in including buyer's premium.
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