VIENNA (AFP) – The Swiss watch that got Hollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger in trouble with German custom officials has been sold for EUR270,000 (USD290,000), the actor’s charity said on Friday.
The action hero-turned-environmental campaigner was held at Munich airport on Wednesday for failing to declare the bespoke Audemars Piguet timepiece that was being auctioned for his climate charity.
Schwarzenegger called his brush with the law a “wild experience” at the charity dinner on Thursday where the watch was auctioned, cracking raunchy jokes about a female official who he said “was going to put me in handcuffs”, according to a video posted on entertainment website TMZ.
“Usually I pay USD500 for that,” said the 76-year-old actor, a former governor of California. Schwarzenegger was held for three hours, according to the German media, before being allowed to take the watch to the dinner.
