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.
It was written.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was to be elected.
For his friends, there was no doubt: he was going to land the moon and sit in the Oval Office.
The election campaign was going to be in full swing and end with a victory.
During his singing tricks, Frank Sinatra was already bragging about the magic of his buddy
“Jack”.
"Show me a hero, I'll write you a tragedy,"
exclaimed Francis Scott Fitzgerald.
Could he have dreamed of a better character for a novel than this youngest of a family of East Coast patricians, who became the youngest president of the United States, struck down in full youth?
Florida senator Grant Stockdale knew better than anyone the man who was already nicknamed with the acronym JFK.
In any case, he knew him well enough…
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