Just over a year after Francis Ford Coppola’s $100 million bet on Megalopolis failed to pay off—with the Adam Driver-led epic earning just $14.4 million at the box office—the legendary director is looking to recoup some of his expenses by offloading a bunch of high-end watches. On December 6 and 7, during The New York Watch Auction: XIII at Phillips, seven of the 86-year-old’s spectacular timepieces are set to go under the hammer.
And while some of said timepieces are more typical luxury fare—enamel-dial Breguets, an IWC Portugieser chronograph, a couple of lovely Pateks—there are two watches that should stop collectors dead in their track: Created in collaboration with Francois-Paul Journe himself, the F.P.Journe FCC Prototype is a watch that stemmed from a conversation between the two men that took place at Coppola’s Inglenook winery in Napa Valley in 2012. Coppola asked Journe if a watch had ever been created that used a human hand to indicate the time, and Journe was so intrigued by the concept that he built a prototype—the only watch he’s ever designed whose conceit didn’t stem from his own imagination.
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