Marlon Brando's Rolex GMT-Master Ref 1675 was released in 1972. Having bought the watch, the actor himself engraved the inscription “M. Brando ". In 1979, on the set of Apocalypse, Francis Ford Coppola demanded that the Rolex be removed from the frame. But the actor insisted on his own - as a result, the same watch appears on Colonel Kurtz's wrist, albeit with the steel bezel removed.
In 1995, Brando gave a Rolex to his daughter Petra in honor of his graduation from Brown University with the words: “This watch is like a tank. You can do whatever you want with them - they will continue to work. " In 2003, she donated them to her husband Russell Fischer. Since then, the watch has not appeared in public.
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“An iconic, historically important and wonderfully preserved example of a steel wristwatch with a second time zone function” - this is how the auction house Phillips describes the lot. The intrigue was kept for a long time: the official estimate was never announced (it was provided only upon request). But everyone remembered well the bidding two years ago, at which Paul Newman's Rolex went for a record $ 17.75 million. Bidding began with an amount of $ 250,000. However, a miracle did not happen: the final cost of Marlon Brando's Rolex GMT-Master fell slightly short of $ 2 million. the amount will be donated to the Brando Fisher Foundation.>