Just when the spectators were hoping that we would see an auction of a Big Sub Autavia run to the end, we see that bids have been cancelled and the auction has ended. Oh well, we have seen this a few times before, right?

Seller had written to me that he received the watch from his uncle (who was a Bishop), and that this uncle had received the watch from an Archbishop, and that the Archbishop had received it as a gift from Pope Paul VI. Today, seller writes that he ended the auction because of a disagreement in his family.

So we have seen provenance of old Heuers relating to Steve McQueen, and Sammy Davis, and Stanley Kubrick . . . got to say that is difficult to visualize the Pope handing out Autavias as gifts to Vatican visitors.

Jeff

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: This is a thread for discussion of the first execution Autavia
: currently being sold on eBay --
: http://www.ebay.com/itm/172077970007

: Currently, the watch has been bid to $21,562, and there are 8 days
: remaining in the auction.

: Jeff

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