Marlon Brando's daughter is selling the 1972 GMT-Master that he wore while filming 'Apocalypse Now' to raise money for charity
When Paul Boutros received a cryptic email from Petra Fischer saying she had "something of interest" for the auction house Phillips, he "tried googling her, but nothing came up," recalls the Watches division head for the Americas. "On the phone, she used her full name: Petra Brando Fischer. Once I heard her maiden name, my heart started beating a little faster." The item of interest was her father's Rolex, a 1972 GMT-Master ref.
Since 2014, Brando's watch has been categorized, in a story on the watch website Hodinkee, as among 12 missing timepieces sought by collectors, alongside a Patek Philippe of John Lennon's and the Omega Speedmaster that Buzz Aldrin wore to the moon. L.A. collectors will get to see the Rolex, still without its bezel, when Phillips previews it at West Hollywood's L'Eclaireur Nov. 15 and 16, before its sale Dec. 10 in New York with some proceeds going to charity.
Unknown to fans of status timepieces, the GMT-Master had been living in a drawer after Petra gave it to her husband, Russel Fischer, a producer on 2002's , when they married in 2003. Says Brando Fischer, whose mother was Brando's longtime personal assistant Caroline Barrett and who was adopted by the actor in 1981: "I was visiting [my father] in L.A. and one night he was sitting in the TV room, and he asked me to come in and talk to him.
What kind of price might the watch fetch on Dec. 10? Given its provenance, pristine condition, historical value — and the fact that Brando himself had hand-engraved his name on the back of the watch — the piece already has drawn intense interest in previews that have taken place in London, Singapore and Geneva. But an auction estimate? Watch collectors will have to wait until the night of the sale. “Only then will people know where the bidding will start,” Boutros says.
A version of this story first appeared in the Nov. 13 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine,
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