Imagine finding a Jaeger-LeCoultre hidden amongst cheap junk at a thrift store.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what happened to one lucky watch collector.<\/p>\n
He walked into Goodwill looking for a golf cart and ended up with enough money to fund his wedding.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: MrBeast divided the internet by tipping waitress with free car<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Zach Norris<\/a> is an amateur watch collector from Arizona.<\/p>\n One day he inherited an Omega Seamaster, the same watch favored by Buzz Aldrin<\/a>.<\/p>\n He then became fascinated with timepieces, watching videos about vintage watches and keeping an eye out for special pieces at second-hand sales.<\/p>\n On his way out of his local Goodwill recently, he decided to rootle around the shop\u2019s watch basket.<\/p>\n When he saw one with the Jaeger-LeCoultre name on it, he knew he\u2019d found a gem.<\/p>\n <\/a>Haute Time<\/p>\n The timepiece was priced at just $5.99 and he could barely bring himself to hand it to the cashier to ring up.<\/p>\n \u201cI was like, \u2018You can scan it in my hand if you want to\u2019,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cI just didn\u2019t want to let it go.\u201d<\/p>\n Norris knew his find was worth more than its price tag, but he had no idea just how much more.<\/p>\n He took it to a watchmaker to have it valued and left knowing he could make a life-changing amount of money from it.<\/p>\n The LeCoultre Deep Sea Alarm was launched in 1959 and was one of the first alarm watches made for divers.<\/p>\n Jaeger-LeCoultre produced less than 1,000 of this model, making it one of its most desirable pieces.<\/p>\n Norris weighed up his options: keep the watch as a collector\u2019s item or sell it.<\/p>\n When he received an offer from Eric Ku, a celebrity in the world of watch collecting, he couldn\u2019t refuse it.<\/p>\n <\/a>Hodinkee<\/a>Hodinkee<\/p>\n Ku bought it for $35,000, meaning Norris made a 583,233% profit.<\/p>\n He\u2019ll use the funds raised to pay for his wedding and to buy his dream watch: an Omega Speedmaster Professional.<\/p>\n Norris is not the only person to strike gold with a second-hand item recently.<\/p>\n One man found a vintage Rolex in a drawer<\/a> which turned out to be worth $195,000.<\/p>\n While another bought an old photo for $2 that featured Billy the Kid<\/a> and is now insured for $5 million.<\/p>\n Best you get to your local thrift store ASAP.<\/p>\n The post Man\u2019s $5.99 thrift store purchase actually rare Swiss timepiece worth thousands<\/a> appeared first on Supercar Blondie<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Imagine finding a Jaeger-LeCoultre hidden amongst cheap junk at a thrift store. That\u2019s what happened to one lucky watch collector. He walked into Goodwill looking for a golf cart and ended up with enough money to fund his wedding. READ MORE: MrBeast divided the internet by tipping waitress with free car Zach Norris is an …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":44448,"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-44447","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\/44447","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=44447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}