In April, 1956 Elvis Presley played Las Vegas for the
first time, the casino boss Frank Williams presented him
with an $800 diamond-studded watch. Elvis Presley
was so thrilled that he bombarded Williams with letters of
thanks.Elvis liked watches. Look at his wrist in any photograph
and you'll spot a carefully chosen model. In 1960 he took
to wearing the distinctive style, Hamilton Ventura.
While the offbeat arrowhead-shaped dial sat comfortably
within the design aesthetic of the time in 1957 as the
world's first electrical, battery-powered watch, the
Ventura was by then the coolest timepiece in America.
It had been presented to Presley to wear in the film Blue
Hawaii, and he took to wearing it off set too.
