Celebrity
Elvis Presley
The King wore the world's first electric watch.
- Known for
- Musician — 'The King'
- The watch
- Hamilton Ventura
The story
Elvis wore Hamilton's shield-shaped Ventura — launched in 1957 as the world's first electric wristwatch — both off stage and on screen in 1961's Blue Hawaii. The association stuck: the Ventura remains Hamilton's signature model, and its space-age case got a second life on Will Smith's wrist in Men in Black.
Facts
- An Omega given to Elvis by RCA to mark 75 million records sold fetched $1.8 million at auction in 2018.
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