The most powerful leader in the world wears a $50 watch!
 

While the Russian President Vladimir Putin wears a $60,000 Patek Philippe Perpetual Calendar watch and the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has a $540,000 Constantin Vacheron watch on his wrist, you have George W. Bush with a $50 Timex Indiglo watch!

Whats up with that?

$540,000 is fucking insane for a watch.

People would chop your arm off for a $5k watch, that's crazy

Putin is a ex Elite solidier and still have the black belt in karate - so you have to be pretty fast to take his watch....... or have a gun

Damn theres no winning. If Bush had a 1,000,000 dollar watch everybody would be mad at him for using money to buy a 1,000,000 dollar watch...

So who own a half million dollars butt plug? :upsidedow

Silvio Berlusconi is the one with the half a million watch though, Putin's watch is expensive though, but DAMN i've never heard of a watch costing that much before

Yup, plus he also owns a Patek Philippe Calatrava watch. Tho I don't how he can afford two expensive watches with is $60,000 per year salary!

thats alot of money for a watch, i dont even wear a watch

VERY TRUE.
Bush doesnt need a watch, he can just ask for the time.

maybe he's broke.... spent all his money on cruise missiles or something
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Berlusconi is an asshole with a personality problem - hence the watch. That's the same guy who got a facelift - what ya expect?

Bush sounds even sane in comparison - tho that's a stuggle to say without grimacing :)

some people dont even have a watch :2 cents:

There are some Audemars Piguet watches that retails for $700,000 and the Chopard?s Super Ice Cube goes for over one million dollars, and they sell like hot bread:winkwink:

when 50cent got a deal with shady records, Eminem & dre gave 50 a present , watch that costed $750,000, i think he wears it till today.

hahahah no shit!

Considering it takes about 30 cents to save the life of a Third World child from certain diseases, I think it's pretty grim that a world leader would spend more than a couple of thousand dollars on a watch.

More like cocaine.

If he wore an expensive watch people would talk shit about him wasting tax money or something.

FXCK BUSH HE COULD SELL HIS INDIGLO FOR $50 AND SAVE 166 CHILDREN


FXCK BUSH


WHAT A JERK!

What's wrong with wearing a Timex? Clinton wore a Timex also.

You don't wear Pateks to the beach for goodness sakes.

Always good to have inexpensive watches in your collection. And the bottom line they tell the time just as perfectly.

When you buy ultra high end watches you're really just paying for the limited edition value, the handmade value, and the brand name. Even the most expensive watches aren't really much better than a watch in the 4 and low 5 fig range.

I wonder how many parts made from endangered species I could make in a watch worth 540K. Maybe a frame with inlaid ivory, straps made from baby panda leather. Jeweled gears made from war diamonds.

Here I thought my 150$ citizen was a bit on the pricey side.

Oh and a 50$ quartz crystal based watch keeps better time than any pure mechanical watch.

If true, I have to admit my respect for GWB just went up.

because of his watch? That doesnt make sense.

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Because he chose not to waste so much money on a watch. My fiancee purchased a watch for me that was $200 and hid the price from me because she knew I wouldn't be happy spending that much on a watch. It's ridiculous to spend money on one.

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I don't think tax money buys watches for world leaders. They buy them themselves. Berlusconi used to own a massive media empire and Putin is old school KGB, they're rich.

well its all a matter of your personal taste... i like watches, so i dont think its ridiculous... but i must admit that half a million is too much for a watch!

Actualy, you pay for the number of complications in a man watch. A watch with lots of complications such as a perpetual calendar with phases and age of the moon, a celestial chart, an indication of sunrise and sunset, a power reserve indicator that alert when your watch needs rewinding and a sidereal time can take years to design and make.

Wristwatches are status symbols. You'll make a good impression with an expensive watch :winkwink:

Well that's the gimmick to justify the price. But seriously, I hardly think any guy who can afford to buy a $100K and up will truly have a need to know the moon's phases and when the sun will rise and set each day.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

maybe the russian pres should invest more money into his economy...

good point, i'm always finding myself in need of that information :2 cents:

Who the hell cares, how much your watch is worth. Does a expensive watch make you more important???? :helpme

Even if you don't need such data, It can always come in use for showing off your knowlegde. Imagine explaining the celestial chart depicting the constellations of stars in the sky over your home town on your watch to some really hot model. She'll be so impress, she'll want you to be the father of future child in no time :thumbsup

For that price the watch better at least come with a blowjob by the pretty sales clerk.

Exactly the reason why you should not buy a watch that expensive.

What a fucking noob. I spend the $50 on steak and lobster and ask the guy next to me what time it is. ( or just look on the taskbar :1orglaugh )

Bush must have a Baby G-Schock. :)

Sweat, but I still don't like him much.

I agree on that statement..what kind of leader would wave his extravagance in the peoples face..it is only for telling time anyways

540k for a watch i retarded

This unique Patek Philippe watch with 24 complications sold at Sotheby's for $11 Million in '99.

Chopard created a watch that was worth an estimated $25 Mil because of the diamonds included with it.

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Some more pricey ones.

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the watch article

he still wears $14,000 suits though

Yeah, the real question is why in fuck anybody would spend more than $50 on a watch in the first place?

And the other real question is, who the fuck uses a watch to tell time these days anyway? I always get my time off my computer screen or my cell phone. A watch is just a useless extra piece of junk to carry around, these days. I guess I'd still carry one if I was moose hunting or something in a place too remote to bother taking my cell phone.

so, in other words you will have to sell the watch so you can support her lazy ass and the new child you had thanx to your damn watch? Doesn't seem worth it to me lol. Of course, if you can buy a watch that expensive you obviously have the $ to blow. As for me, I would never buy a watch that expensive. Hell, I won't buy any watches. I don't wear any so there would be no point. If I need to wear a very expensive watch to make people like/love/respect me more it just is not worth it.

Well, I admire him for it. :thumbsup