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SMWS 24.173 Macallan 2008 15 Year Old

£140

latest hammer price

Rare at auction· 5 lots a year

Auction lots

41

Houses

1

Last sold

yesterday

SMWS 24.173 Macallan 2008 15 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Macallan aged 15 years. Based on 41 recorded auction lots across 10 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £152, with the most recent sale at £140. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £130 (low) to £165 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for SMWS 24.173 Macallan 2008 15 Year Old is £129–£151 8% around the latest sale).

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About Macallan

Macallan is a whisky distillery. SMWS 24.173 Macallan 2008 15 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 15 years old, distilled in 2008.

What drives this bottle's value

  • Single vintage

    Distilled in a single year (2008), so the available batch is inherently finite.

  • Single cask

    A single-cask bottling (cask 24x173) comes from one strictly limited outturn rather than a large batch.

  • Independent bottling

    An independent bottling by smws, typically produced in far smaller numbers than an official distillery release.

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.

Release & bottling facts

Distillery
Macallan
Age
15 years
Vintage
2008
Cask number
24x173
Bottler
SMWS
Bottle size
700ml

Latest sale

£140

24-month median

£152

24-month high

£165

24-month low

£130

Estimated value · likely range

£129–£151 ±8%

Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.

Market presence

last 12 months

Rare at auctiononly a handful of lots a year

Seen at auction

5 lots

Cadence

≈ every 73 days

Trend

86% vs prior year

Houses

1

Activity rank

top 17% of tracked bottles

Last seen

1 day ago

Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.

15.2%vs 6 months ago

Price history (monthly median)

£126£148£170Nov 24May 25Aug 25Dec 25Sept 26

Recent auction results

MonthMedianLots
September 2026£1401
December 2025£1402
September 2025£1302
August 2025£1402
June 2025£1606
May 2025£1602
February 2025£1654
January 2025£1602
December 2024£1506
November 2024£15414

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Frequently asked questions

How rare is SMWS 24.173 Macallan 2008 15 Year Old at auction?

SMWS 24.173 Macallan 2008 15 Year Old appeared in 5 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — rare at auction (only a handful of lots a year). That is down 86% on the previous year. That puts it in the top 17% by auction activity among the 29,829 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.

What is the current auction price of SMWS 24.173 Macallan 2008 15 Year Old?

The latest hammer price for SMWS 24.173 Macallan 2008 15 Year Old at auction is £140. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £152, with a high of £165 and a low of £130. 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.

How much has SMWS 24.173 Macallan 2008 15 Year Old changed in value over the past year?

wsky1 currently has fewer than 12 months of auction data for SMWS 24.173 Macallan 2008 15 Year Old, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £130 to £165 (median £152).

Where can I sell SMWS 24.173 Macallan 2008 15 Year Old?

SMWS 24.173 Macallan 2008 15 Year Old 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 £152 (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%.

Is SMWS 24.173 Macallan 2008 15 Year Old a good investment?

SMWS 24.173 Macallan 2008 15 Year Old has appeared in 41 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £152. wsky1 provides hammer-price data for informational purposes only — not investment advice.

How does wsky1 calculate the price of SMWS 24.173 Macallan 2008 15 Year Old?

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 £140, 24-month median £152 — are derived from this monthly-median methodology. All prices are hammer prices in GBP, excluding buyer's premium.

Does the price include 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 SMWS 24.173 Macallan 2008 15 Year Old that hammers at £140 would cost the buyer approximately £176 all-in including buyer's premium.

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