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Sold for
$52,000
A rare, black-dialed Omega
Constellation Calendar produced around 1960, once belonging to Elvis
Presley, was auctioned by Antiquorum in New York on June 12, 2012. The
watch has an automatic chronometer movement with center seconds and date
and a steel case with rose-gold plating. Antiquorum put the pre-sale
estimate at $10,000 to $20,000, but bids for the coveted piece of rock
‘n’ roll memorabilia quickly escalated to a final hammer price of
$52,500. The winning bidder received, in addition to the watch, a letter
of attestation from Charlie Hodge, the watch’s onetime owner, a longtime
friend and confidant of Presley and a member of the so-called “Memphis
Mafia.”
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