An Air Force vet paid $350 for this Rolex that's now worth up to $700,000. (via CNBCMakeIt)
"Antiques Roadshow" appraiser Peter Planes with a U.S. Air Force veteran and a 1971 Rolex Cosmograph Daytona OysterMore than four decades ago, a U.S. service member spent nearly a month's salary on a watch he wanted to use for scuba diving. Instead, the watch sat in a safety deposit box — unworn — for years.."
"I knew that the Rolex watch was good for scuba diving," the man told "Antiques Roadshow" appraiser Peter Planes of Luxe Auctioneers.Photo by Meredith Nierman for WGBH, WGBH 2020 While that price pales in comparison to the watch's current value at auction , the man says it "was a lot of money for myself" at that time. His monthly military salary in those days ranged from about $300 to $400, he said on the show."I never used it. I looked at it and I said, 'You know, this is really too nice to take down in the salty water,'" he told Planes. "I just kept it.
The 1971 Rolex Cosmograph Daytona Oyster, with accompanying documentation, appearing on PBS' "Antiques Roadshow.""I only took it out like two or three times to look at it, and that was about the extent of it before I brought it here," he says.
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