The strange feels I had holding JFK's Omega Ultra-Thin (ref OT3980) in my hand

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The strange feels I had holding JFK's Omega Ultra-Thin (ref OT3980) in my hand


John F. Kennedy was a watch guy. He was rarely, if ever, sighted without one on. A personal favourite of his was this Omega Ultra-Thin ref OT3980 gifted to him by his friend and former Florida State Senator Grant Stockdale. When we visited Omega's headquarters in Bienne midway through last year, we were fortunate enough to be given a tour of the museum with a rare invitation to handle any watch that caught our eye. This was absolutely one of them.

How to describe the feeling of holding in your hand an object with the human detritus of JFK visible on the strap, around the lugs and so on? He wore this watch frequently. You can tell. It was oddly unsettling. Powerful. I go on after this experience to handle Elvis' watch, too. It wasn't the same experience. I can't advance any theories here, just an observation.

An interesting backstory of this watch, aside from my esoteric rambling, is that Stockdale engraved and gifted the watch to him the summer before the November election, such was his faith in JFK. In December of 2005, Omega purchased the watch at auction for $350,000USD. There's much more to the story, but we'll hand over the video here....



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