Marilyn Monroe she gave to President John F. Kennedy gold Rolex?

Marilyn Monroe she gave to President John F. Kennedy gold Rolex?
In October 2005 a Day-Date Rolex gold, generally known as the Rolex President, sold the house to-auction sales of Alexander in Greenwich, Connecticut for $ 120,000 dollars, breaking the record house. A stunning shows in fact, was the ambiguity of historical origins of the shows that led up the selling price.
Allegedly, the president of Rolex gold was given to John F. Kennedy by Marilyn Monroe’s iconic evening when the actress celebrates serenaded, singing a stifling of “happy birthday” on 19 May 1962, at Madison Square Garden in New York. Inscribed with the words, “Jack, with love as always from Marilyn, May 29th 1962″, the watch was sold with a poem entitled: “A genuine claim on your birthday,” was introduced to the black keyboard on a disc paper placed at the bottom of the box containing the gold present. The date on the inscription corresponds with Kennedy’s birthday. However, even after collecting an exorbitant price in the auction, many experts still doubt that the watch is a true piece of history or a fake refined.

According to history, Marilyn Monroe gave the watch to Kenneth O’Donnell, the support of Kennedy, the night of celebration. Widely acknowledged to have a case, the watch was a gift from Monroe to President Kennedy. When Kenneth O’Donnell has spent time over at JFK, Kennedy told him that “you rid of him,” according to a note that was sold with the watch.

It was expected that Rolex has been put up for auction in 2005 and sells for between $ 40,000 and $ 60,000, a gross underestimate in view of the final sale price of $ 120,000. Bill Panagopulos, founder of home-sales auctions, “said the huge discrepancy:” That’s the hardest thing I’ve ever had to estimate the historical relics, especially when there is a council of scandal attached defy any attempt by an auctioneer to estimate their selling price. “

The larger question, considering the evaluation of the watch, so it is really genuine. Rather that sold by the family of O’Donnell, Panagopulos said the president of Rolex had been led by a French citizen, “which describes his family as being the pawnbrokers forward for classes aristocratic. “According Panagopulos, serial number and engraving of the shows are appropriate for the time, and history of the watch has been confirmed by a member of the family of former Kennedy aide.

A floral design on the top of the box round gold Rolex watch with two doves “kissing.” At the bottom of the case, there is a round piece of paper printed with the poetry of Marilyn to his alleged lover. Entitled “an honest claim on your birthday,” the poem reads, “Let lovers breathe their sighs / and roses bloom and music sound / let the passion burn on lips and eyes / and the pleasures that joyful world tournent / let the sun flood the golden sky and let me love or let me die! “

In general, Rolex and its accompanying notes represent a dramatic course of events that will always be shrouded in speculation. The death of Marilyn Monroe, by a mysterious overdose in August 1962 and the assassination of President Kennedy in November 1963, means that the truth may never be known. The aide, Kenneth O’Donnell, who was given time in history, has disappeared in 1977, and his family refused to comment on gold Rolex and its historical validity. It seems that if the story is true, the anonymous buyer of the Rolex President does not regret the timeless sophistication of this watch and the story of its origins.