{"id":77825,"date":"2018-05-14T13:40:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T13:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/elviss-1960-omega-diamond-watch-sold-for-1-8m-at-auction\/"},"modified":"2018-05-14T13:40:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T13:40:34","slug":"elviss-1960-omega-diamond-watch-sold-for-1-8m-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/elviss-1960-omega-diamond-watch-sold-for-1-8m-at-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Elvis&#8217;s 1960 Omega diamond watch sold for $1.8m at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cityam.com\/assets\/uploads\/main-image\/full_width_article_body_image\/laughing-elvis-3381340-5af96a217fba9.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>An Omega wristwatch that previously belonged to Rock &#039;n Roll legend Elvis Presley was sold for $1.8m (\u00a31.3m) at an auction in Geneva, making it the most expensive Omega ever sold.<\/p>\n<p>The wristwatch was given to &#039;the king&#039; by RCA Records after surpassing 75m records sold in 1961 and fetched 18 times the expected buying price.<\/p>\n<p>It is made of 18-carat white gold and has 44 diamonds from the New York-based jeweller Tiffany &amp; Co and was expected to go for between \u00a336,000 and \u00a378.000.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityam.com\/283971\/take-wheel-50-classic-cars-worth-millions-being-put-up\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">You could get your hands on 50 classic cars up for auction in London<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Geneva spring auction started on Saturday with watch sales by New York and London-based auction house Phillips and is the leading auction house for rare and vintage timepieces.<\/p>\n<p>In October last year, Phillips set a new record for the most expensive wristwatch ever sold when Paul Newman&#039;s Rolex fetched $17.8m (\u00a313.1).<\/p>\n<p>London-based auction house Sotheby&#039;s held an auction on Sunday where a Rolex Daytona Paul Newman was sold for $948,000 (\u00a3698,000), but Phillips has established themselves as the leading auction house for vintage timepieces.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityam.com\/283516\/sothebys-sells-100-carat-brilliant-cut-diamond-secret-buyer\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The world&#039;s purest diamond has sold for a record amount<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Omega wristwatch that previously belonged to Rock &#039;n..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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