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Jeff Bridges’s ‘Big Lebowski’ Sweater and Gene Hackman’s ‘Crimson Tide’ Rolex Are Up for Sale

Jeff Bridges’s ‘Big Lebowski’ Sweater and Gene Hackman’s ‘Crimson Tide’ Rolex Are Up for Sale

The list of candidates for the world’s most famous sweater is a short one. On it are such greats as Kurt Cobain’s “Unplugged” cardigan, Princess Diana’s “black sheep” jumper, and Billy Crystal’s oversized cable knit from When Harry Met Sally. The top spot, however, assuredly belongs to the chunky brown shawl-collar cardigan worn by Jeff Bridges as The Dude in the Coen brothers classic The Big Lebowski. And on March 25th, someone is going to buy it.

The Dude’s signature knit is just one of more than 1,500 items hitting the block in the Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction, which is set to take place from March 25 to 27 in Los Angeles. Hosted by Propstore Auctions, the same auction house that sold Darth Vader’s lightsaber from Return of the Jedi for $3.6 million last year, the sale runs the gamut from original production drawings from The Simpsons (estimated to hammer for $300-$600) to an original C-3PO head from The Empire Strikes Back ($350,000-$700,000). It would take far too long to highlight every piece from the sale that we’re coveting (the list includes both Robert Redford’s bat from The Natural and Keanu Reeves’ surfboard from Point Break), but here are a few of our top menswear picks.


If there’s any justice in this world, the person who buys this cardigan will also enter winning bids for the other Lebowski pieces on auction, including these brown aviator shades and this Dude-worn tee and hoodie, which “exhibits a stain in the hood and a tear in one pocket from production wear.” If you don’t wind up with the winning bid on The Dude’s iconic sweater, however, which was made by Pendleton in the 1970s as part of the brand’s High Grade Westernwear line, you can just buy a new one.

Courtesy of Propstore Auction


It may not carry the elite Swiss bona fides of Paul Newman’s Rolex Daytona, but this ana-digi Seiko, worn by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1987 blockbuster Predator, is arguably of equal historical significance. Introduced by Seiko in 1982, the H558-5000 was the first ana-digi diver’s watch with a chronograph and an alarm, making it a milestone for the brand and exactly the type of thing one might wear to hunt a bloodthirsty alien in the jungles of Central America. Schwarzenegger also famously wore this watch in 1985’s Commando, a distinction that earned it the nickname, the “Arnie.”

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