Charles Leclerc’s stolen watch was worth much more than the reported EUR 300,000. Ferrari confirmed to DPA news agency that, during that moment with fans, Leclerc’s watch was stolen. Leclerc’s trainer Andrea Ferrari, a Viareggio local who was with the Ferrari star at the time, hit out at authorities. According to La Repubblica, international publications got the valuation of Leclerc’s watch – a limited edition Richard Mille RM 67-02 – completely wrong. “It is impracticable to give a real value,” the newspaper noted, “but a prototype of the watch stolen from the Ferrari driver was sold at auction in 2021 for about 2 million Swiss francs – almost two million euros at today’s values.”.

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