Sunday, December 7, 2025

Francis Ford Coppola sold a watch with an animated hand









From the listing:
Coppola extended an invitation for François-Paul Journe to visit him at his Inglenook winery in the Napa Valley. Their meeting in 2012 was creatively fruitful, with Coppola, long fascinated by historic automatons, asking Journe if a human hand had ever been used, or could be used to indicate time. With no timepieces known to have ever been produced using a human hand, the seeds were planted in Journe’s mind to figure out a way to indicate the passage of time using a single hand.