Richard Mille

here is a very public demonstration of why it is necessary to lock down people wandering around with high resolution cameras who may, or may not, be part of recognized media.

I more or less live in Indonesia, and have spent 20 years here. Military generals are extremely powerful and influential (and many are extremely wealthy people) in this country. Quite a few have successful businesses and have personal networths in the hundreds of millions. Don't want to get into the details, but it is what it is i suppose.

Maybe he had someone find him a fake just for the publicity stunt of throwing it on the table.....or like you said, maybe he didn't care and threw his real one on the table as well.

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I still don't by the restraint of high res pics, once one is sold it can get out there, someone can see it on someone's wrist and take a pic, I absolutely don't agree with not letting people take pics or showing your watches.  fakes are here to stay people, as bad as that is.  and they don't make them exactly like the real watches, too expensive.. 

 

Anyway, that story is crazy, I kind of hope it was a fake that was destroyed.....  Crazy story

Is he being pursued for having purchased the "fake"?

but good if it is, since he destroyed it. More likely a stunt that was needed to avoid further scrutiny.

Let's alone care about why he possess exquisite  watches or cars...destroying such a beautiful timepiece is a sin. 

So if u guys google around, there is a pic of him having interviewed without the media, just a pic of himself (pic attached). That interview was quite a few weeks back, maybe 3 weeks. I did see this first pic of him wearing it in one of the local business magazines here. Even its far and not clear enough, I can guarantee thats a real one, either RM011 Black Kite or RM011 Asia Boutique edition, more to the Black Kite though. I'm a watch enthusiast btw and can spot if a watch is real or fake just buy looking at it and especially RM watches, they are impossible to be cloned like Rolex or AP. I mean look at it..the RM casing..the shape..it is a real one.

To add what RahulR has said, it is indeed true that most government officials here are corrupted and some are not careful enough to hide their wealth.

Then when all media started to come along, of course, to protect himself from being investigated on his personal wealth, he had to cover himself. As we all know fake RM watches are spreading around and coincidentally, they already make the fake RM011 Asia Boutique and online or local shops here selling it (these fakes are not bad, though u can still see its fake, but for some who don't know this brand, they just know its an RM regardless being real or fake). We all here are mostly sure that he bought the fake asia boutique version after all this media attention. So the pic above when he showed and banged the RM, that was already the fake one.

We are quite sure his is the Black Kite version, but the fake is the Asia Boutique version (because no good fake of Black Kite being made yet), but no one knows anyway, they just see a black watch and gold insert which look like the Black Kite.

Damn if the watch is real because it shows how much wealth he's accumulated and the income disparity.

Damn if the watch is fake because it's a shame that a General supports fake products.

Anyway, assuming that it's real, he can always send the watch back to RM for repair and it won't cost him much since he can afford an RM.

 

My guess...it's real. I can't image a General shopping at Shenzhen/China to buy so many different high end watches which are fakes....how many trips must he make? Besides, different watches are launch at different time and the market needs time to come up with a fake one.

James

 

It's no secret many gov't officials as well as army generals here like to wear cool/expensive watches, our passion
People say it's a fake? C'mon...  When you live here all you life, you'll know how they are. 

What can I say? They have good tastes when it comes to watches )