Alain Delon decided to part with his collection of watches

In April 5 of the current year the French auction house Carnette de Saint Syr had a unique bid, on which were exhibited 100 wristwatches that were part of a personal collection of the famous actor Alain Delon, which were acquired in 50 years. Among the models featured lots of famous watch brands such as Vacheron Constantin, Breitling, Audemars Piguet, Rolex, Cartier, IWC, and Blancpain....
The actor has always gravitated to the luxurious and magnificent timepieces as an indispensable attribute of a man of impeccable taste and elegance. He always considered important to follow his own taste and not capricious fickle trends of fashion. For several years of collecting Alain Delon won a very rich and representative collection, which includes such unique specimens of art of watchmaking as Rolex Daytona; Cartier Santos and Cartier Santos 100, Cartier Tank.
Watches are unique not only in terms of their highly technical performance, but also of belonging to the actor. For example, the Royal Oak Audemars Piguet watch on the wrist of Alain Delon starred in famous movies, "How Boomerang" (1976), "Word of Police" (1985) and "Do not wake a sleeping policeman" (1988)
The auction was held in the building of a Parisian mansion Hotel Salomon de Rothschild and the collection was sold for a huge sum - 590 300 dollars.
Occasional collection was exhibited at the end of March in Hong Kong, as Alain Delon enjoys great popularity in China and this grand event has a real potential to attract of customers.
Incidentally, this is not the first auction, which was organized by the actor. Quite recently, the auction was set a collection of exclusive wines, income from the sales of which exceeded 250 000 EUR.