“The Godfather” director Francis Ford Coppola is selling off several luxury watches from his personal collection, including one custom timepiece worth over $1 million, after losing most of his wealth financing his decades-long passion project, “Megalopolis.”

The 86-year-old Oscar-winning filmmaker reportedly invested $120 million of his own fortune into making the epic science fiction movie, which only grossed $14.3 million at the worldwide box office after it was released in September 2024.

According to The New York Times, Coppola has also openly admitted that the movie left him broke.

Now, seven of Coppola’s prized watches will be up for sale on Dec. 6 and 7 at Phillips auction house in New York City.

“I need to get some money to keep the ship afloat,” he told the New York Time

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