Creations of visionary watchmakers or emblems of pop culture, they have belonged to queens, dictators or rock stars, made the headlines and panicked at auctions… Five timepieces in the whirlwind of history.
A Cuban, and not the least, will have greatly appreciated the watches of the legendary brand with the crown: Fidel Castro.
The Cuban dictator will have worn them almost all his life, from Havana to UN meetings, via Moscow.
Timepieces that had been weathered prematurely both by the sun and by the smoke from the Cohiba cigars he smoked all day long.
It all starts with a cliche that has become mythical, which we could also, surprisingly, notice a few years ago even on the wall of the Parisian office of… the former President of the Republic Nicolas Sarkozy!
Taken in 1961, this famous image depicts Fidel Castro, then Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba, with his head in his hands and a cigar between his fingers...
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