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sistem_32 wrote: Mon Sep 09, 2019 8:15 am Rafael Nadal (congratulations to him) has his own limited edition Richard Mille.

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The Sultan of SoWhat wrote: Mon Sep 09, 2019 4:43 pm
sistem_32 wrote: Mon Sep 09, 2019 8:15 am Rafael Nadal (congratulations to him) has his own limited edition Richard Mille.

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I expect it's modeled after the flag of his native Spain, but I agree it's a bit much. Not to worry, they also offer this more restrained version, if an RM can be said to be restrained:
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sistem_32 wrote: Mon Sep 09, 2019 5:38 pm
The Sultan of SoWhat wrote: Mon Sep 09, 2019 4:43 pm
sistem_32 wrote: Mon Sep 09, 2019 8:15 am Rafael Nadal (congratulations to him) has his own limited edition Richard Mille.

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An esthetic nightmare.
I expect it's modeled after the flag of his native Spain, but I agree it's a bit much. Not to worry, they also offer this more restrained version, if an RM can be said to be restrained:
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More restrained--but how do you read it?
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The Sultan of SoWhat wrote: Mon Sep 09, 2019 5:52 pm
sistem_32 wrote: Mon Sep 09, 2019 5:38 pm
The Sultan of SoWhat wrote: Mon Sep 09, 2019 4:43 pm

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An esthetic nightmare.
I expect it's modeled after the flag of his native Spain, but I agree it's a bit much. Not to worry, they also offer this more restrained version, if an RM can be said to be restrained:
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More restrained--but how do you read it?
You don't. It's meant for displaying wealth, nothing more.
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In today's New York Times: "The watch industry is a man’s world. Or is it?"

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/11/fash ... e=Homepage
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/21/styl ... e=Homepage

One Odell Beckham quote:

After endless chatter about his timepieces (and speculation on social media that his game-worn watch might be a fake), the star receiver seemed wearied by questions about watches — even with the announcement of a new endorsement deal with Daniel Wellington, a Sweden-based maker of watches in the $200 range.

“I’m off of it,” he told reporters after the Browns’ victory over the Jets on Monday, when asked about his latest $2 million practice watch. “I don’t really have any comment about it. I think Daniel Wellington might be a better watch than these, a little classier, not as flashy as this one. I’m just blessed.”
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The Observer UK claims these are the "best diving watches." None is less than £1,300.

The best reader comment: "And I suspect most of the buyers of these overpriced toys don’t even do their own washing up."

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... new-styles
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“OGC Nice and Lamine Diaby Fadiga parted ways on Tuesday,” Nice said in a statement. “Following the theft of Kasper Dolberg’s watch from the professional first team’s changing room, and the subsequent admission of the player, the club decided to cancel its contract with the 18-year-old forward with immediate effect. . . .

French media reported the watch was €70,000 (£62,000).

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€70,000 watch worn by Footballer (soccer player)?

My guess is it was a Richard Mille or AP Royal Oak.
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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... ty-auction
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With thanks to my daughter, who forwarded this to me:


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purchases and regrets (Re: Watches in the News)

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In today's WSJ somebody wrote in to Dan Ariely's advice column about purchases and regrets. Here was Dan's reply:
Research shows that in the short term, we tend to regret actions--in this case, buying a car--more than inactions. But in the long term, we're more likely to regret the things we didn't do. Psychologists suspect that this is because the consequences of inaction are uncertain and take much longer to make an impact. ...
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Cutting up art canvases for watch dials?


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/ ... ches-tal-r
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From 5/8/19

Sepp Blatter wants his watches back.

Blatter, the former president of FIFA whose yearslong leadership of soccer’s global governing body ended in scandal, also wants some pension payments and for his former employer to clear his name. But his current focus is a strangely personal dispute over the fate of dozens of luxury watches that he said he was unable to retrieve from FIFA headquarters after he was forced out of the organization in 2015.

Blatter, 83, told The New York Times in an interview Wednesday that he had grown so frustrated with FIFA’s failure to return as many as 80 watches — from brands like Patek Philippe, IWC and Omega — that he was including them in a lawsuit he plans to file against the organization that also will include demands for pension payments and clarification about his compensation arrangements to show that “I am not a thief.”

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Last year, after a back and forth with FIFA’s legal department and the organization’s secretary general, Fatma Samoura, Blatter was reunited with 120 timepieces, though not what he described as his “high technology collection.” The fight over those watches continues. Blatter said they have high sentimental and monetary value; each watch, he estimated, is worth $5,000 to $20,000 — figures that would value the collection at $400,000, but likely much more.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/08/spor ... pe=Article
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