The end of sacred cinema watches

"Where are the men?"

This is the refrain that comes to mind when we take a look at retro and the golden age of virility in cinema, when the career of a recognized actor was only due to the big screen. , lasted for decades and raised him to the rank of icon of male style on a planetary scale… If those days are over, the myth of yesterday's heroes continues, as does their look immortalized on film, watches included.

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It is also part of this cult devoted - by interposed timepieces - to these sacred monsters that the Phillips house will auction on December 12 in New York, during its last watchmaking session of the year. .

There will be offered to aficionados the Rolex Oyster Cosmograh Daytona, which belonged to actor and pilot Paul Newman, but also, and above all, one of the TAG Heuer Monaco worn by Steve McQueen during the filming of the film

in 1971. This sole presence on screen on the wrist of the “King of Cool”

almost in the skin of pilot Jo Siffert,

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