Trump's $100,000 Watches Are the Most Tragic Celebrity Watch Yet

Celebrities partnering with ticker brands is thing new. Sometimes a bona fide ticker enthusiast similar John Mayer partners with Audemars Piguet, oregon Ed Sheeran (owner of a unsocial Patek Philippe, nary less) teams up with Casio. Then there's the different extremity of the scale, wherever arguable Barstool Sports laminitis Dave Portnoy and his own ticker company resides.

Now, however, there’s a caller nadir: The Trump Watch. Announced this week by erstwhile US President Donald Trump, the postulation consists of 2 pieces. One is called “Fight Fight Fight” and is priced from $499, and the different is the “Victory Tourbillon”. The second is claimed to beryllium made from coagulated 18ct gold, with 122 diamonds and a tourbillon automatic movement. It’s priced astatine a nice, circular $100,000—about 3 times the terms of an equivalent Rolex Submariner—and, yes, crypto payment is available.

The watches are claimed to diagnostic “premium, Swiss-Made materials and intricate details,” but truthful acold arsenic we tin tell, the Fight Fight Fight uses a question by Japanese institution Seiko, portion the Victory Tourbillon has a question alleged to beryllium partially built from Chinese components.

It gets better. In what rapidly starts to lucifer the tweet-riddled fever dreams of the highly online, the watches are produced by a institution called TheBestWatchesonEarth LLC, which is based successful Sheridan, Wyoming, and, contempt nary watchmaking past to talk of, has a licence statement to usage the Trump sanction for its timepieces.

“We besides judge Bitcoin arsenic payment!”, the GetTrumpWatches website yells, arsenic if handing implicit existent dollars to a institution who admits the images of the timepieces “are for illustration purposes only” isn’t capable to rise an eyebrow.

We’ll travel backmost to the Tourbillon successful a moment. For now, let's look astatine the cheaper of the two, called the Fighter. At slightest that’s what the website code suggests it’s called, but it’s besides described arsenic the “Fight Fight Fight Watch”—and successful the statement of the achromatic and golden colorway it’s “The Fight Fight Fight Black Watch.” Either way, it resembles a Rolex Submariner described down a patchy telephone line.

But don’t conscionable instrumentality our connection for it. WIRED Watch adept Tim Barber told us: “Trump evidently has immoderate cut-through among definite ticker fans, since the golden sneakers helium auctioned earlier this twelvemonth were bought by Roman Sharf, 1 of the astir salient gray-market ticker dealers, with a sizable YouTube following." (Incidentally, the companies that made the gold sneakers and the caller Trump Watches were established by the aforesaid registry agent, Andrew Pierce of Cloud Peak Law, Wyoming.)

“Having said that, I uncertainty these hideous pieces volition summation his equity among astir ticker collectors. As it happens, all-gold watches being precise connected inclination successful the luxury marketplace astatine the moment, helium joins Rolex successful producing a golden dive ticker this year. But I would beryllium little assured of this sharing immoderate different qualities with a Rolex.”