Steve McQueen's "Le Mans" Watch Sells for $2.2M, Breaking Auction Record - The Edwardsville Intelligencer
Steve McQueen's "Le Mans" Watch Sells for $2.2M, Breaking Auction Record Alex Lauer, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail During the last decade, the watch world has seen an auction boom the likes of which no one could have predicted. Both mechanically and historically significant timepieces have seen hammer prices reach ludicrous heights — at the top the list, a 2019 Patek Phillippe sold for over $31 million and a Paul Newman Rolex Dayton for just under $18 million — and arguably no single model tells this story better than Steve McQueen’s Le Mans watch. The square-cased timepiece in que...