He can be seen wearing it on stage during his first national TV appearance on the Stage Show in New York.
Guess who he gifted this watch to? Guitar player Scotty Moore! He did so while he and his band were sitting poolside at the New Frontier Hotel, Las Vegas, on 25 April 1956.
Not long ago this same gold-filled Lord Elgin was sold for a cool R5 million.
In South African terms, that is a pension right there.
In December of 1975 Elvis bought a Lincoln Continental Limousine. One evening when J.D. Sumner, bass singer of Elvis' backup group The Stamps, found himself stranded at Graceland without transportation Elvis gave him the Limousine.
As can be expected, this car is a sought-after collectors item. It had been on display in Mike Moon's museum in the mountain resort city Pigeon Force, Tennessee, after which it was sold in 2019. In the mean time it has returned to the auction block where a real bidding war has unfolded and after 37 bids the hammer has fallen at a nearly staggering R7 million.