Francis Ford Coppola is broke. Again.

He made Dracula, Godfather III, etc, to dig himself out of his 70’s/80’s spending sprees bankruptcies. Those movies gave enough cash to build his wine business and other interests. Now Megalopolis has sunk him again, and he's selling off personal items for cash. Like his expensive custom made watches.

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I don’t have any money because I invested all the money, that I borrowed, to make ‘Megalopolis,’” he said in March during the “Tetragrammaton” podcast, speaking with the music producer Rick Rubin. “It’s basically gone.” At the center of Mr. Coppola’s sale with Phillips is a timepiece that he designed himself in 2014 in collaboration with F.P. Journe, a Swiss watch company whose horological marvels are expensive enough to make Rolex look like Swatch.

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He’s hoping Mega can make money down the road, but refuses to let it stream, insisting that you see it in theaters.

The million dollar watch auction