Shortly after Sylvester Stallone finished the movie Rocky, which started his Hollywood career, he saw Gregg Allman in The Allman Brothers Band asleep, with his arm hanging in the aisle and a distinctive gold watch on his wrist.
Stallone said in a video released by Sotheby's auction house that this watch is "the most beautiful thing I have ever seen" and has aroused the hobby of collecting watches for decades.
Now, the Hollywood star will auction his personal collection of 11 watches at Sotheby's in new york on June 5th. One of the auction items is a rare Patek Philippe master clock, which is expected to sell for as much as million, and the watch he wears in some movies.
Only seven models of grandmaster timekeeping watches have been produced, which is the most complicated watch made by famous luxury watchmakers.
Therefore, Sotheby's called it the "holy grail" of watch collectors, and was praised for its extremely complicated mechanical devices that took 100,000 hours to develop, produce and assemble.
The grandmaster timekeeping watch is the most complicated watch ever made by Patek Philippe. Sotheby's watch has 20 complicated functions, not only the time telling function, such as five time telling devices and a date repeater, which can display the date and time by sound. "It's hard to come by," Stallone said. "I had to turn to some forces, that is, I wrote many letters to the board of directors, and finally the board decided that I would become the owner of one of these magnificent works of art."
This watch comes with other souvenirs, including a gift box engraved with Stallone's name, an iPad and Airpods, each with a Patek Philippe case.
Another Patek Philippe watch is from the Nautilus series and is expected to cost as much as 0,000. It has an olive-green dial surrounded by 32 wiesel diamonds and a stainless steel case.
Several other famous watchmakers also participated in the auction, including the watch Stallone wore in front of the camera.
Rolex watches were released in 2016 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the first watch showing both date and date, and the price can reach ,000.
Meanwhile, a watch made by Audemars Piguet with a rose gold case and a blue dial is estimated to fetch 0,000.
Cartier watch is one of the watches auctioned in Sylvester Stallone. Sotheby's auction house also auctioned several Panerai watches. Panerai is a long-standing brand of Stallone and wore Panerai watches in the 1996 film Daylight. A watch specially made for him is engraved with commemorative words on the back, which is one of the watches in this auction. The estimated price is as high as 60 thousand dollars.