Overview
- Phillips will offer the seven timepieces in New York on December 6–7, with Coppola’s F.P. Journe FFC Prototype as the top lot.
- Phillips’ Paul Boutros says Coppola is selling to raise funds to offset debt, and the director has said he needs cash to “keep the ship afloat.”
- Coppola self-financed Megalopolis at about $120 million, and the 2024 release grossed roughly $14.3–$14.4 million worldwide.
- The FFC Prototype was co-conceived by Coppola and François‑Paul Journe, uses a human-hand mechanism to indicate hours, and is estimated around $1 million, with a related prototype fetching nearly $5 million in 2021 and small-run versions selling near $1 million.
- Other lots include an F.P. Journe Chronomètre à Résonance (estimated $120,000–$240,000), Patek Philippe World Time and Calatrava models, a Blancpain Minute Repeater, a Breguet Classique, and an IWC Portugieser, with estimates from about $3,000 to $240,000.