Creations of visionary watchmakers or icons of pop culture, they have belonged to queens, dictators or rock stars, made headlines and panicked at auctions… Five watches in the maelstrom of history.
it was written: John Fitzgerald Kennedy should have been elected. There was no doubt to his friends that he was going to land on the moon and sit in the Oval Office. The pre-election campaign was going to be intense and end with a victory. During his singing career, Frank Sinatra was already boasting about his friend’s magic “Jack”. “Show me a hero, I’ll write you a tragedy.” exclaimed Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Could he have dreamed of a better character for a novel than the youngest of a family of East Coast patriots who became the youngest president of the United States, who perished in all his youth? Florida Senator Grant Stockdale knew better than anyone the man already nicknamed JFK. In any case, he knew her well enough…
Source: Le Figaro
