latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
3,163
Houses
2
Last sold
33 days ago
Yamazaki - 12 Year Old (Watami Founder's Choice) 66cl is a collectable Scotch whisky from Yamazaki aged 12 years. Based on 3163 recorded auction lots across 134 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £98, with the most recent sale at £170. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £40 (low) to £170 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Yamazaki - 12 Year Old (Watami Founder's Choice) 66cl is £156–£184 (±8% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Yamazaki - 12 Year Old (Watami Founder's Choice) 66cl is up 72.9%, with a 6-month trend of +100% (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.
Yamazaki is a whisky distillery. Yamazaki - 12 Year Old (Watami Founder's Choice) 66cl is an age-stated bottling at 12 years old.
Named / limited release
Released as choicefounderwatami, a named edition rather than part of the standard core range.
Non-standard format
Bottled in a 660ml format rather than the standard 700ml, which sets it apart from the regular run.
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
£170
24-month median
£98
24-month high
£170
24-month low
£40
Estimated value · likely range
£156–£184 ±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.
Regularly tradedseveral lots most weeks
Seen at auction
97 lots
Cadence
≈ 2 per week
Trend
▼ 11% vs prior year
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 1% of tracked bottles
Last seen
33 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£100
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 | 263 | £170 | £97 |
| Whisky Hammer | 48 | £160 | £120 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £170 | 1 |
| July 2026 | £113 | 3 |
| June 2026 | £89 | 13 |
| May 2026 | £85 | 4 |
| April 2026 | £118 | 3 |
| March 2026 | £85 | 11 |
| February 2026 | £85 | 3 |
| January 2026 | £86 | 11 |
| December 2025 | £93 | 17 |
| November 2025 | £96 | 9 |
| October 2025 | £82 | 7 |
| September 2025 | £84 | 15 |
Yamazaki - 12 Year Old (Watami Founder's Choice) 66cl appeared in 97 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — regularly traded (several lots most weeks). That is down 11% on the previous year. It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 1% 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 Yamazaki - 12 Year Old (Watami Founder's Choice) 66cl at auction is £170. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £98, with a high of £170 and a low of £40. 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.
Yamazaki - 12 Year Old (Watami Founder's Choice) 66cl is up 72.9% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 100%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Yamazaki - 12 Year Old (Watami Founder's Choice) 66cl 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 £98 (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 Yamazaki - 12 Year Old (Watami Founder's Choice) 66cl has moved up 72.9%, with a current median hammer price of £98. The bottle has been observed at auction across 3163 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 £170, 24-month median £98 — 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 Yamazaki - 12 Year Old (Watami Founder's Choice) 66cl that hammers at £170 would cost the buyer approximately £214 all-in including buyer's premium.
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