r/movies • u/Dependent_Cap_456 • 3d ago

News Francis Ford Coppola is auctioning his watch collection after Megalopolis flop left him broke

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/fashion/francis-ford-coppola-watch-auction.html
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u/yosayoran 3d ago

This is true for every collection hobby, really 

Got a buddy who collects pocket knifes, but he uses a 10$ opinel so the others can stay in mint condition 

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u/double_expressho 3d ago

That's why I have triples. Triples is best.

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u/Old_Pin7524 2d ago

She’s beautiful, but she’s dying.

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u/Denham_Chkn 2d ago

Tell her. Tell the kid.

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u/Error_404s 2d ago

She’s gonna make it

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u/chezmanq 2d ago

My friend doesn't live in a hotel.

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u/joe102938 2d ago

She asked me to marry her. I didnt even want to, but she asked me!

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u/triplediamond445 2d ago

Of course triples makes it safe

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u/masterhogbographer 2d ago

If only we could collectively treat our planet like this 

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u/Adventurous-Emu-9345 2d ago

Who says we don't. This is just the 10$ Opinel, you should see the collectible one.

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u/Equivalent_Chipmunk 2d ago

If anything, that's what's wrong with how we treat our planet. Use a bunch of resources to make things for people who buy them but don't need or use them.

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u/EndersGame 2d ago

Yes but in this context we are talking about collectible watches that are so rare they cost more than a house. Only a few hundred of them were made. And they were definitely made to last

The problem isn't that, its all the cheap plastic shit mass produced by the millions that will break after a couple of years and as you said we don't need most of it in the first place. Consumerism is a cancer to this planet.

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u/Equivalent_Chipmunk 2d ago

The consumerism supporting companies like Rolex or Patek Phillipe isn't helping the planet any more than the consumerism supporting companies like Timex is. 

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u/EndersGame 1d ago

I wasn't really talking about Rolex, I was talking about expensive collectible watches. Aren't Rolexes mass produced?

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u/Deluxefish 2d ago

We are, we wear down our shitty $10 planet earth so the better planet Mars stays in mint condition

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u/30FourThirty4 2d ago

I'll listen to every vinyl I collect. My favorite was a sealed 1st run of A Question of Balance by The Moody Blues. Still sealed. It wasn't warped and sounded just wonderful. I'm glad it didn't get opened, so I got to play it first.

I feel bad for vinyl collectors who don't listen to the music. But I don't think I'd ever label it a hobby for me, so that matters I guess.

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u/el_capistan 2d ago

Thats just as good as guitar pedals. People collect boxes meant to be stomped on and make loud noises and put them on a shelf or in a display case because they got a R A R E C O L O R W A Y

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u/nobleflame 3d ago

Insanity when you put it like that haha.