When you finance a long-gestating dream project yourself, that often comes with a need to raise money. If you’re Francis Ford Coppola and you’ve just spent nine figures making Megalopolis, that’s ...

With three exceptional lots leading the charge, Phillips’s latest auction underscored a decade of record-setting performance. Marking 10 years of redefining the auction landscape, the Decade One: ...

The New York Watch Auction: XIII, which included the sale of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola’s custom watch, became the highest-grossing watch auction in U.S. history on Sunday. The auction’s 10th ...

This weekend at Phillips’s New York Watch Auction XIII the headline lot, a F.P. Journe FFC prototype belonging to director Francis Ford Coppola sold for $10.75 million making it the most expensive ...

Over the weekend, during a flurry of major auctions in Geneva, a Patek Philippe 1518 in steel sold for a whopping $17.6 million. That made it the second-most-expensive vintage wristwatch ever sold at ...

Coppola sold an additional six watches at the auction, including an IWC Portugieser Chronograph for $21,590; an F.P. Journe Chronometre à Resonance for $584,200; a Patek Philippe World Time for ...

The watch was owned by John Jacob Astor IV, a businessman who died when the Titanic sank in 1912.

Back in May of 2017, a watch belonging to Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thụy, the last Emperor of the Nguyễn Dynasty of Vietnam, hammered for roughly $5.06 million. Dubbed “Bao Dai” after the Emperor’s honorific ...

The 1940s were a remarkably fertile period at Patek Philippe. As the Second World War raged, the elite Swiss watchmaker debuted the ref. 1526 perpetual calendar and the ref. 1518 perpetual calendar ...

Even as the Titanic slipped beneath the icy North Atlantic, one story of devotion survived the disaster — and now it has made history at auction. A gold pocket watch that once ticked on the wrist of ...

Francis Ford Coppola's custom watch led the sale at $10.8 million. By Carly Thomas Associate Editor The New York Watch Auction: XIII, which included the sale of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola’s custom ...