Thursday – 8 Ramadan 1444 AH – 30 March 2023 AD Issue Number [16193]
New York – London: «Asharq Al-Awsat»
“Sotheby’s” announced that it will display in its New York auction, which it will organize next June, two “Rolex Daytona” watches owned by the famous American actor Paul Newman, who died in 2008, and the house hopes that each of them will be sold for one million dollars, according to the press agency. French.
But even if the two watches were actually sold at this price, they would remain very far from the record price for selling a wristwatch at an auction achieved by the “Phillips” house in New York in October 2017, when another Rolex Daytona he owned was sold for $ 17.8 million. Paul Newman.
The late actor Paul Newman (AFP)
The Hollywood star, who loved luxury watches and participated in motor racing, received one of the two Swiss watches offered at the Sotheby’s auction on June 9 as a gift from his wife, American actress Joanne Woodward, during the 24-hour race at the Daytona Beach circuit in Florida, USA.
It was estimated at between $500,000 and $1 million, the value of this Rolex Daytona watch with a black dial and a leather strap on which the phrase “Drive very slowly” was engraved in large letters and bore the signature of “Joanne”.
The other watch, the Rolex Zenith Daytona, valued at the same value, is identical in shape but with a white dial and a metal bracelet, and Newman received it for his team’s victory in the 1995 Daytona race.
The actor was then 70 and subsequently became the oldest driver to win a motorsport, according to a statement from Sotheby’s.
At the end of February, the house announced an auction in June of 300 items belonging to Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, who remained married from 1958 until the actor’s death from lung cancer in 2008 at the age of 83.
