Ellen DeGeneres Just Bought a Vintage Rolex. It Only Cost around $750000.

Oct 25, 2019, 3:34 p.m ETIn the vintage watch market, few timepieces are more coveted than a late-1960s gold Rolex Daytona.

About $750,000, a watch expert familiar with the deal said this week after an image of Ms DeGeneres appeared on Instagram, sitting in her Modernist Beverly Hills home beside the dealer Jasper Lijfering, the watch in her hand Two months ago, Ms.

DeGeneres and her wife, Portia de Rossi, went to the Netherlands and visited Mr Lijfering's store, Amsterdam Vintage Watches, for the first time Ms.

DeGeneres entered wearing a new gold Rolex Daytona with a sunburst green dial, a current production model of the watch that has soared in value over the last year In 2014, the watch dealer Andrew Shear got married wearing one that he said cost him about $250,000 His Instagram feed showcases his best available timepieces along with selfies taken aboard his friends' private planes, in which he is wearing custom-made suits, six-figure watches and Tom Ford glasses.

Ms DeGeneres has since told him the John Player is really the only watch she wants to wear, but he doesn't buy it. . Source