latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
16
Houses
2
Last sold
48 days ago
President Special Reserve is a collectable Scotch whisky from President Special. Based on 16 recorded auction lots across 13 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £35, with the most recent sale at £25. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £15 (low) to £60 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for President Special Reserve is £18–£32 (±29% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, President Special Reserve is down 28.6%, with a 6-month trend of +66.7% (up). 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.
President Special is a whisky distillery. President Special Reserve is a no-age-statement bottling.
Named / limited release
Released as President Special Reserve 75cl, 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
£25
24-month median
£35
24-month high
£60
24-month low
£15
Estimated value · likely range
£18–£32 ±29%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Rare at auctiononly a handful of lots a year
Seen at auction
3 lots
Cadence
≈ every 122 days
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 28% of tracked bottles
Last seen
48 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£35
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 | 13 | £25 | £35 |
| Whisky Hammer | 1 | £28 | £28 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| October 2025 | £25 | 2 |
| August 2023 | £35 | 1 |
| November 2020 | £45 | 1 |
| August 2019 | £20 | 1 |
| September 2018 | £45 | 1 |
| March 2018 | £35 | 1 |
| January 2018 | £15 | 1 |
| August 2017 | £25 | 3 |
| January 2017 | £60 | 1 |
| August 2016 | £35 | 1 |
| November 2015 | £20 | 1 |
| March 2015 | £45 | 1 |
President Special Reserve appeared in 3 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — rare at auction (only a handful of lots a year). It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 28% by auction activity among the 30,758 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for President Special Reserve at auction is £25. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £35, with a high of £60 and a low of £15. 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.
President Special Reserve is down 28.6% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 66.7%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
President Special Reserve 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 £35 (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 President Special Reserve has moved down 28.6%, with a current median hammer price of £35. The bottle has been observed at auction across 16 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 £25, 24-month median £35 — 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 President Special Reserve that hammers at £25 would cost the buyer approximately £32 all-in including buyer's premium.
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