A Canadian woman hit the jackpot when she accidentally found a super expensive and rare Rolex inside her couch.<\/p>\n
The couch was a thrift store item worth $25.<\/p>\n
Well, we need to add a few 0s to the value of the Rolex she found.<\/p>\n
READ MORE:<\/strong> From Rolex to CASIO, 5 times watch prices spun seriously out of control<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The woman was watching TV when her phone slipped from her pocket and fell into the crevasses of her couch.<\/p>\n Upon retrieving her phone, she also found a watch that didn\u2019t belong to her or any of her family members.<\/p>\n It was a Rolex, so it had to be expensive and valuable.<\/p>\n But after doing some research, she found out just how expensive and valuable it was.<\/p>\n The watch in question was a rare iteration of the Rolex Daytona, which is one of the most sought after watches in the pre-owned market to begin with.<\/p>\n Pictured below: Paul Newman\u2019s Rolex Daytona, which sold for $17.75 million in 2017<\/em><\/p>\n <\/a>Rolex<\/p>\n A 1966 model, one of only 3,000 pieces ever built, the Daytona in question was worth north of $250,000.<\/p>\n She eventually ended up selling the watch to a Rolex reseller who gave her $250,000.<\/p>\n Talk about return on investment \u2013 she\u2019d only paid $25 for the couch.<\/p>\n The Daytona, named after the eponymous car race, is arguably one of the hottest Rolex models at the moment.<\/p>\n Like so many other Rolex models, it is nigh on impossible to buy because demand outpaces supply.<\/p>\n <\/a>Artisans de Gen\u00e8ve<\/a>Rolex<\/p>\n So the price has gone mad in the pre-owned market in recent years.<\/p>\n Furthermore, the Daytona achieved \u2018legendary status in the watch world in 2017, when Paul Newman\u2019s very own Rolex Daytona sold for a staggering $17.75 million at auction.<\/p>\n Even though watch prices have cooled down a bit in 2023, Rolex Daytonas are still difficult to find and definitely not cheap.<\/p>\n Also because celebrities absolutely love it<\/a>.<\/p>\n On average, you\u2019re looking at a $50k price tag<\/a> for a pre-owned model.<\/p>\n The post Woman finds $250,000 Rolex inside her $25 couch<\/a> appeared first on Supercar Blondie<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Canadian woman hit the jackpot when she accidentally found a super expensive and rare Rolex inside her couch. The couch was a thrift store item worth $25. Well, we need to add a few 0s to the value of the Rolex she found. READ MORE: From Rolex to CASIO, 5 times watch prices spun …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":43611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}