Oct 27, 2025
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A year after Francis Ford Coppola invested $120 million in his mega-bomb "Megalopolis," the "Godfather" director is selling seven pieces from his personal watch collection.
After the failure of "Megaliolis", Francis Ford Coppola allocates to collect expensive performances
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Francis Ford Coppola wants an offer he can't refuse - under his watch.
The Oscar-winning director is selling seven watches from his personal collection, including a custom F.P.watch.The Journe FFC prototype could sell for more than $1 million, according to a statement from New York auction house Phillips.Phillips will hold an auction on December 6 and 7.
The sale could help offset losses from last year's blockbuster "Megalopolis," which cost more than $120 million to make and was heavily financed by the 86-year-old director. The film grossed $14.3 million worldwide.
The film, Coppola's first since 2011's horror film "Twixt," premiered last year at Cannes to mostly negative reviews.Joshua Rothkopf of The Times called it "a hugely ambitious epic about an overpopulated city."
At a news conference in Cannes, Coppola discussed the enormous amount of his own money he sunk into the film, saying he "never cared about money" and "his children don't need a fortune."
Coppola's watches also include examples from Patek Philippe, Blancpain and IWC.
But the most eye-catching piece is the F.P.Journe FFC prototype, which features a black titanium humanoid hand shaped like a steampunk glove that can control time by extending or retracting its fingers.
The watch is a collaboration between Coppola and director François-Paul, which began after a conversation the pair had during the filmmaker's visit to Inglenook Winery in Napa Valley in 2012.
Coppola asked Journey if a human hand was used to mark the time.The question sparked a year-long conversation, during which the watchmaker mastered how to indicate the 12 hours on a button with just five fingers.
Placing His revelation in the case of AMBusise, the surgeons of the 16 city of France, which received hidden gears and springs, to the watch mechanism.
"Talking to Francisco in 2012 and hearing about using the human hand to watch something that I couldn't imagine doing myself, the Scarecrow project, which I'm excited about - it was great," he said.
Journe ultimately created six prototypes and delivered Ona Coppola's watch in 2021.
"I am proud to fully support the sale of this watch by Philips to fund the creation of his artistic masterpieces on film," he said.
Coppola first became interested in watchmaking when he gave his wife Eleanor a platinum F.P. Jorn Chronomètre à Resonance with a white gold dial for Christmas 2009, leading the director to invite Jorn to visit his Napa winery.
Documentary director and Author-Coppola died in 2024 at 614. It has been listed in both FP magazine and at auction and is estimated to sell for between $120,000 and $240,000.
