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Paul Newman wore a 1971 watch in a 1969 movie?
I'm sure he will do well by the money.
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I’ve never understood the fascination with Rolex.
While I can appreciate the craftsmanship to create a purely mechanical watch of this caliber, 17K or so on the low end, they are purely status symbols.
Know of one on the bottom of the ocean off San Clemente Island.
SCUBA Team Leader put on his wet suit top and was switching his watch to the outside of his wet suit. Dropped it and it bounced off the side of the rubber boat and away it went.
That sucker was heavy and sank too fast - he tried.
One of my favourite antiques stories involves someone in Philadelphia who bought (for about one or a couple of dollars) a used end table with a small drawer in it at a simple garage sale. They casually took it home and put it away (presumably for future use) for a few years. That while later, that person picked out the table and casually went through the drawer. It turned out to be filled with autograph books that had rare ones like John Lennon, Muhammed Ali, Mary Astor, and all sorts of other famous (and many other by even that time about twenty years ago, departed) celebrities.
They were able to trace the end table and the autograph books (dating from the early ‘70s) to a since deceased woman who often went to Mike Douglas show tapings in Philadelphia back then and she was able to get the autographs of these famous people when they guested on that show. What really threw me for a loop was seeing the labels on the books “#2-1972” or “4-1973” as to how many of these books were in this woman’s collection.
I recently bought a Louis Vuitton purse at a garage sale, original late 70’s I think, but never used even has the original tags on it. It is ugly and I would never use it, I gave it to my daughter for Christmas and told her she had to work at finding the perfect buyer for thousands of dollars so she could remodel her kitchen.
I saw this Monday night. The end of the NBC video is FAKE. It shows him falling at the $500,000 to $700,000 estimate. That’s not what happened. As the article itself says, he fell at the first $400,000 figure.
Old hippie guy kept the Rolex he bought in a safety deposit box, didn’t wear it.
Wow. Talk about appreciation.
It was $350 when he bought it in 1974 or so, maybe a month and a half pay for his Air Force job.
I don’t think he literally fainted or collapsed.
I remember K-Mart selling Breitlings < $100 in the 70s.
Wish I had treated mine better...
If that image isn’t a gif-generator, I don’t know what is!