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This might be our favorite Obama inauguration tie-in so far: "To mark the occasion and commemorate John F. Kennedy's timeless style, Omega has reissued the ultra thin timepiece the man wore during his inauguration on January 20th, 1961." The watches go for $8,250 each, but that's still less than the $350,000 JFK's original watch fetched at auction a few years ago. [Valet]
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