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.
A Cuban, no less, will appreciate the Fidel Castro watches of the legendary crown brand. The Cuban dictator will wear them almost all his life, from Havana to the UN meetings, via Moscow. Watches that had worn out prematurely from both the sun and the smoke from the Cohiba cigars he smoked all day.
It all starts with a legendary cliché, which, surprisingly, we could have noticed even a few years ago… on the wall of the Paris office of the former President of the Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy. This famous image, taken in 1961, depicts Fidel Castro, then Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba, with his head in his hands and a cigar between his fingers…
Source: Le Figaro
