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Reuters | May 13, 2008
The "Trossi Leggenda" was the star lot among 193 pieces on offer, 159 of which sold for a total of $10.4 million, it said.
Trossi was a racing driver, pilot and speed boat racer whose motor-racing victories included the 1947 Italian Grand Prix.
"It is a watch of great symbolic and historic importance as it came out in 1932, a turning point which also saw car racing and the emergence of airplanes," Geoffroy Ader, Sotheby's head of watches in Geneva, told a pre-sale news briefing.
A gold Rolex made around 1980, known as the "Oyster Daytona Paul Newman" and named after the Florida car race and for the American actor who made the style famous, netted 157,000 francs, compared to its pre-sale estimate of 50,000 to 80,000 francs.
By Stephanie Nebehay
Photograph: Getty Images
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