The original owner paid $15,000 for the watch - about £650,000 at today’s prices. But he later
became convinced that it had come with a deadly curse.
Just seven months after Graves received the watch in 1933, his best friend died.
In early November 1934, Graves's youngest son, George, was involved in a car crash in Pasadena, California, and died.
The news was
devastating, and made even worse by the fact that Graves had lost his
eldest son, Harry, in a car crash in 1922 when he was just 25 years old.
For
Graves, the Supercomplication was a bad talisman and he intended to
throw it into Upper Saranac Lake in upstate New York but was convinced
not to at the last moment by his daughter Gwendolen - Dailymail for more
Sold for record $15m
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