article_snippet.sent: It can’t receive phone calls, track your exercise or let you send messages, but an old watch made by Apple is on sale via eBay for more than the brand’s latest offering.
article_snippet.sent: An analogue promotional watch from Apple with a blue bezel, rubber strap and colourful hands, is listed on the internet auction site with a ‘buy it now’ price of $2,499.99 (£1,707.47) plus postage.
article_snippet.sent: An analogue promotional watch from Apple (pictured) with a blue bezel, rubber strap and colourful hands, is listed on the internet auction site with a ‘buy it now’ price of $2,499.99 (£1,707.47) plus postage .
article_snippet.sent: The seller, called ‘theappleipodbay’ calls the watch, which was made by Quartz and released to promote Apple’s Mac Operating system, a ‘rare collector item’.
article_snippet.sent: ‘The watch was part of an Apple promo and has been preserved from the 1990s,' The seller, called ‘ wrote on their eBay page.
article_snippet.sent: The seller, called ‘theappleipodbay’ calls the watch, which was released to promote Apple’s Mac Operating system, a ‘rare collector item.
article_snippet.sent: Unlike Apple’s new The watch, the vintage model has a circular screen, which has no digital capabilities and shows the company’s old rainbow hue logo.
article_snippet.sent: Unlike Apple new smart watch, the vintage model has a circular screen, which has no digital capabilities and shows the company’s old rainbow hue logo.
article_snippet.sent: The International Business Times reported that The watch is almost 50 times more valuable – according to The International Business Times seller – than The International Business Times was a year ago, thanks to the launch of The watchThe watch.
article_snippet.sent: The International Business Times’s not known how many of the vintage watches Apple had made at the time, or how many still exist, but one sold on eBay in Match last year for $54 (£37).
article_snippet.sent: There was immediately brisk bidding on eBay for confirmed orders for watches, with hundreds of sellers looking to make a few hundred or even thousand dollars by passing on their watches, once received.
article_snippet.sent: ‘the Apple Watch was part of an Apple promo and has been preserved from the 1990s,' the seller wrote.
highlights_snippet.sent: Analogue watch was released in 1997 to promote Apple's Mac OS .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Has a circular face and colourful hands, unlike Apple's modern Watch .
  