MARLON BRANDO ROLEX

AUCTIONED AT PHILLIPS, NEW YORK, 10 DECEMBER 2019

Phillips to o er Marlon Brando’s long lost Rolex GMT-Master, worn in “Apocalypse Now”, in New York city, on 10 December 2019. It could very well become one of the most expensive watches in the World.

Phillips’ flagship New York watch auction, GAME CHANGERS will o er what is undoubtedly the most important wristwatch formerly owned by Academy Award® winner Marlon Brando. An iconic Rolex GMT-Master ref. 1675, this watch was worn by Brando in Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, released in August 1979. With its absolutely superb provenance, it is the watch seen by millions on the wrist of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz – the character played by Brando – and long thought to have been missing. In addition to its role on the silver screen, the GMT-Master being o ered at Phillips is made even more extraordinary by the never-before-seen engraving on the caseback, “M. Brando,” hand-engraved by Marlon Brando himself.

This watch remained in Brando’s possession until 1995, when he gifted it to his daughter, Petra Brando Fischer. The auction this December marks the watch’s first time ever being shown publicly and o ered for sale since having been acquired by the legendary actor in the early 1970s.