{"id":43466,"date":"2018-09-17T08:57:31","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T07:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/?p=43466"},"modified":"2018-09-17T08:57:31","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T07:57:31","slug":"forty-watches-from-hollywood-legend-robin-williams-collection-up-for-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/forty-watches-from-hollywood-legend-robin-williams-collection-up-for-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Forty watches from Hollywood legend Robin Williams&#8217; collection up for auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Forty wristwatches from the collection of the late Robin Williams are being sold at Sotheby&#8217;s New York and online next month along with\u00a0movie props, toys, furniture and art.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The auction includes a gold-plated Hamilton watch that the actor wore during Dead Poet&#8217;s Society, arguably his most popular role.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re incredibly excited about the watch that Robin Williams wore during\u00a0<i>Dead Poets Society<\/i>,\u201d Sotheby\u2019s vice chairman Nina del Rio said at a public exhibition ahead of the sale.<\/p>\n<p>The watch is expected to sell for up to $2,000.<\/p>\n<p>Other watches are more mainstream including pieces from Cartier, Oris, Franck Muller and Bulgari.<\/p>\n<p>The auction, which is titled Creating a Stage: The Collection of Marsha and Robin Williams, has 300 lots and is expected to raise around $3 million.<\/p>\n<p>A portion of the sales will go to charities supported by the couple including Human Rights Watch and the Wounded Warrior Project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The auction includes a gold-plated Hamilton watch that the actor wore during Dead Poet&#8217;s Society, arguably his most popular role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false},"categories":[7039,4,2],"tags":[238,413,2663],"newspack_lstngs_evt":[],"newspack_lstngs_gen":[],"newspack_lstngs_mkt":[],"newspack_lstngs_plc":[],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"WATCHPRO","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43466"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_evt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_evt?post=43466"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_gen","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_gen?post=43466"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_mkt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_mkt?post=43466"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_plc","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_plc?post=43466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}