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Chantilly Arts & Elegance Richard Mille · 13 September 2026

More than
just cars.

A Sunday at Chantilly, where exceptional cars, collectors, culture and the asset side of the market all meet in the same place.

By Arnau García Finance & Strategy · 4 min read
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01 / The experience

A petrolhead’s dream picnic.

That’s what we came away with after a Sunday at the Chantilly Arts & Elegance Richard Mille, on 13 September.

The scene was worthy of a French king: the château, the gardens, the cars and thousands of elegantly dressed attendees. It was the perfect cocktail for what turned out to be a perfect day.

All sorts of cars were there: 1950s Jags and Rolls-Royces, a casually parked F50, dozens of E-Types, Morgans, Bentleys, Porsches, a whole class of Lamborghini Miuras marking the model’s 60th anniversary, and the one-of-one Bugatti Brouillard, which took Best of Show among the concept cars and one-offs.

  • Classic Ferrari racing and road cars, including a yellow number 57 and a dark red number 38, lined up in front of the Château de Chantilly.
    Front-engined Ferrari V12s, lined up beneath the château.
  • A blue and a red Lamborghini Miura on the gravel, the blue car’s door open, with spectators behind them.
    Sixty years on, the Miura had a class of its own.
  • Four red Ferrari F40s parked nose to tail on the grass, with a crowd behind them.
    F40s, nose to tail on the lawn.

But what was probably more interesting than the cars themselves was everything happening around them.

Car clubs and aficionados sharing food and champagne, talking about their latest adventures with their cars, comparing stories and simply enjoying being surrounded by people who share the same passion. The clubs area even set a record this year, according to the organisers.

And that’s when you realise that cars are not just machines.

They create communities around them.

They create friendships, stories and experiences. They create a common language between people who might otherwise never have met. And this is something we strongly believe in at One Of One.

  • Guests playing pétanque on a sand court on the château lawns.
    A game of pétanque on the lawns.
  • Club members in panama hats lunching at a white-clothed table with champagne.
    Lunch, club style: champagne, panama hats and car talk.
  • The prize-giving stage in front of the château, with orange event chairs and a silver trophy in the foreground.
    Trophies at the ready for the prize-giving.

02 / The One Of One view

Passion meets the asset side.

For us, these cars go much further than an engine with four wheels. There is the emotional and cultural side of them, the community around them and, of course, the part where we specialise: the asset side.

A One Of One Automotive business card held up against the red flank of a Ferrari.
Our card, on the lawn at Chantilly.

Collectible cars have increasingly established themselves as an alternative asset class: tangible assets where scarcity, condition, mileage, provenance, originality and uniqueness can translate into values in the millions.

By the numbers

How rare is rare?

Eight cars from this story, by the number ever built. Each gridline is ten times rarer than the last.

Bugatti Brouillard

2025

The first car from Bugatti’s Programme Solitaire, and a true one-off. At Chantilly it took Best of Show among the concept cars and one-offs. One of one.

Commonly cited production totals. Where sources disagree, the figure is marked c. or given as a range.

03 / The market

Why these cars matter beyond the weekend.

The cars at Chantilly are some of the best examples of this: McLaren F1 GTRs, Porsche 911 GT1s, Ferrari F40s, 275s, 250 SWBs and a long list of unique and special cars that belong to one of the most selective clubs in the world.

At the same time, collectors are becoming more selective about what they want to own. Prestige, provenance, rarity and originality are becoming increasingly important when deciding which cars deserve a place in a collection.

Close-up of a red Ferrari’s louvred clear engine cover, with the prancing horse visible on the engine beneath.
Originality, under glass.

We are also seeing growing interest in cars from the late ’80s, the ’90s and the early 2000s: a generation that is slowly becoming the next collecting wave.

That is precisely where we see an interesting opportunity.

That generation, in our garage

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04 / The thesis

Understanding why people want a car, and why they will continue to want it.

After this year’s Chantilly Arts & Elegance, we came back with an even stronger conviction about the market One Of One Capital I is built around: identifying exceptional cars, understanding what makes them special, and combining the collector’s instinct with the discipline of an investor.

It is not only about buying the right car. It is about understanding why people want it.

Cheers to more events, more cars and more cool car people throughout the year.

Written by
Arnau García
Finance & Strategy, One Of One Automotive

Before joining One Of One, Arnau worked across alternative investments, asset management and strategy, at firms including AXA Investment Managers and BNP Paribas Asset Management.

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