Paul Newman's rare Rolex has auction watchers all wound up

New York

MAYBE you missed out on Jimi Hendrix's "Woodstock" Stratocaster, which sold for a reported US$1.3 million in 1993. Perhaps you were too slow to raise the paddle for the prototype Apple 1 computer, thought to be Steve Jobs' and Steve Wozniak's first, that fetched US$815,000 last year.

Luckily, you still have a crack at Paul Newman's Rolex Daytona. This opportunity may not seem significant to the cellphone-toting masses who think of mechanical wristwatches as anachronistic devices once used by their grandparents to tell time.