A JFK Lucky Charm Oprah Ought to Buy
Hey Oprah! Want to get a lucky—and timely—campaign charm for your guy, Sen. Barack Obama? Well for the bargain-basement price of about $150,000, our friends at Alexander Autographs have the very same gold Benrus watch that the Democratic National Committee gave to JFK during his 1960 campaign against Richard Nixon. It's inscribed, "To our next president, J.F.K." In an authentication letter, former aide David Powers says Kennedy wore it on the campaign trail, though "he found the watch band heavy and loose" and almost lost it several times while shaking hands. And seriously, $150,000 is cheap: Alexander President Bill Panagopulos says that a watch JFK wore on Inauguration Day fetched $420,000.
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You can win too if you have a lucky charm..
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A little perspective
Horologically speaking, comparing the Benrus to the Omega that sold for $420,000.00 is not an apples to apples comparison. The Omega was a nice watch all on its own. The Benrus is a decent watch, but it is nowhere in the same league as the Omega.
The Swatch group (who owns the Omega brand) bought the Omega for its museum in Bienne, Switzerland. Had it not been for them, I doubt seriously that the watch would have sold for $420,000.
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