latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
91
Houses
2
Last sold
65 days ago
Hibiki 17 Year Old Congratulating Fuji is a collectable Scotch whisky from Hibiki aged 17 years. Based on 91 recorded auction lots across 38 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £1,400, with the most recent sale at £1,500. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £210 (low) to £3,400 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Hibiki 17 Year Old Congratulating Fuji is £900–£2,100 (±40% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Hibiki 17 Year Old Congratulating Fuji is down 53.1%, with a 6-month trend of -37.2% (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.
Hibiki is a whisky distillery. Hibiki 17 Year Old Congratulating Fuji is an age-stated bottling at 17 years old.
Named / limited release
Released as congratulatingfuji, 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
£1,500
24-month median
£1,400
24-month high
£3,400
24-month low
£210
Estimated value · likely range
£900–£2,100 ±40%
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
10 lots
Cadence
≈ every 37 days
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 8% of tracked bottles
Last seen
65 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£1,400
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 | 63 | £1,500 | £1,200 |
| Whisky Hammer | 10 | £1,450 | £2,250 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| July 2026 | £1,500 | 1 |
| April 2026 | £1,275 | 4 |
| January 2026 | £1,300 | 2 |
| December 2025 | £1,500 | 3 |
| April 2025 | £1,950 | 1 |
| January 2024 | £2,300 | 1 |
| December 2023 | £2,388 | 1 |
| November 2023 | £2,400 | 1 |
| September 2023 | £1,600 | 3 |
| February 2023 | £2,300 | 2 |
| October 2022 | £2,800 | 2 |
| May 2022 | £3,400 | 3 |
Hibiki 17 Year Old Congratulating Fuji appeared in 10 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — scarce at auction (a good find when it appears). It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 8% by auction activity among the 29,926 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Hibiki 17 Year Old Congratulating Fuji at auction is £1,500. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £1,400, with a high of £3,400 and a low of £210. 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.
Hibiki 17 Year Old Congratulating Fuji is down 53.1% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 37.2%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Hibiki 17 Year Old Congratulating Fuji 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 £1,400 (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 Hibiki 17 Year Old Congratulating Fuji has moved down 53.1%, with a current median hammer price of £1,400. The bottle has been observed at auction across 91 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 £1,500, 24-month median £1,400 — 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 Hibiki 17 Year Old Congratulating Fuji that hammers at £1,500 would cost the buyer approximately £1,890 all-in including buyer's premium.
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