obamas watch

[tstain]

apologies if repost but does anyone else love this
http://www.barackswatch.com/#
don't know much about their history bar the celebrity link

[Stuart]

Honestly, I don't love it...

Pretty generic aviator style watch (Werthers Original Flying Watches do something similar for about 80 notes), generic Japanese movement and $325 for the privilege of the Obama connection. Plus, the website has to have the worst "Elvis Dambuster Memorial Tutankhamen Clock*" Franklin Mint-esque tackiness to it.

Sorry, but you did ask.


joke copyright Viz, circa 1993

[CommanderJameson]

Tacky.

ETA: "Elvis Presley Dambusters Clock Plate of Tutenkhamen", if you please.

Edited by CommanderJameson on Thursday 22 January 08:35

[toohuge]

Not a big fan, Churchill had a better taste in watches.

[robuk]

"Jorg Gray 6500 Chronograph worn by President Obama was given to him as a 46th birthday present by the members of his Secret Service detail."

I wonder what stuff it has in it GPS tracking etc !

[AB]

Yeah, not a massive fan of that - its quite tidy, but I'd spend $325 elsewhere.

[Papoo]

toohuge said:

Not a big fan, Churchill had a better taste in watches.

Exquisite, to be precise. Wasn't he a firm wearer of Breguet? That's why we won the war, you know. Good timekeeping.

[Stuart]

Papoo said:

That's why we won the war, you know. Good timekeeping.

That and his steadfast refusal to drink anything but Pol Roger or eat much apart from the wet end of a Romeo y Julieta.

[iain_cam]

Am I the only one thinking he'd have something a bit more. . . . prestige?

Heston Blumenthal had a nicer watch.

(Don't know if the latter remark has any significance at all rather than stating random fact. Made sense in my head.)

[Fittster]

iain_cam said:

Am I the only one thinking he'd have something a bit more. . . . prestige?

Looks a bit dodgy if a public servent is wearing a Patek.

[toohuge]

Papoo said:

toohuge said:

Not a big fan, Churchill had a better taste in watches.

Exquisite, to be precise. Wasn't he a firm wearer of Breguet? That's why we won the war, you know. Good timekeeping.

Yes he was a Breguet wearer, exquisite taste as you say.

[Webber3]

iain_cam said:

Am I the only one thinking he'd have something a bit more. . . . prestige?

Heston Blumenthal had a nicer watch.

(Don't know if the latter remark has any significance at all rather than stating random fact. Made sense in my head.)

I don't think it's the done thing over there, especially now, given the state of the world economy.

GWB used to wear a cheapo Timex and Brown isn't known for his expensive watches. Berlusconi and Sarkozy don't seem to have a problem with expensive timepieces. I wonder what GWB will be wearing now that he's left office.

[CommanderJameson]

Putin wears a Patek Philippe perpetual thingy, iirc.

[Trommel]

Medvedev favours Frank Muller (and a cheapy phone watch).

[ukshooter]

robuk said:

"Jorg Gray 6500 Chronograph worn by President Obama was given to him as a 46th birthday present by the members of his Secret Service detail."

I wonder what stuff it has in it GPS tracking etc !

I wondered why it had the Secret Service badge on the face. Thought it was coincedental.