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Watch actor Paul Newman sold for a record amount

This is a record amount ever given to a wristwatch.

Watch model is Rolex “Paul Newman” Daytona that belonged to American actor and racing driver Paul Newman was sold in new York auction house Phillips for $17.8 million

The Rolex chronograph was put up for auction with an estimate (preliminary cost) about $ 1 million. Thus, the final price exceeded the estimate by almost 18 times. Bidding lasted 12 minutes, the new owner of the watch is not called.

See also: United States sold for a record amount of money

Chronograph Rolex Cosmograph Daytona Paul Newman, released in 1968, was donated to Paul Newman’s wife, actress Joanne Woodward. On the back she had engraved Drive carefully (“Drive carefully”).

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