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...Three Rolex watches, a $56,000 Cartier bracelet and a $500,000 selection of jewellery have left Peru’s president lost for words....
...Circle 33, located inside a former colonial residence on Scotts Road in the swish suburb of Orchard, has closed its doors after failing to renew its lease last year, according to three people familiar with...
...None expresses the desire to reach the size of FP Journe, let alone Patek Philippe or Rolex: their grand ambition is to make the best watches and clocks they can, from start to finish, under their own name...
...The Rolex and Patek Philippe together fetched $68,000....
...When Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, he did not inform his own security council — instead on one occasion gaming out the peninsula’s annexation with his defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, and three...
...Bidzina Ivanishvili, a client of a rogue private banker who had fleeced a whole load of incredibly wealthy people out of their savings and funded a lavish lifestyle of Rolex watches and fast cars....
...The items — including 284 boxes of designer handbags by Hermès, Prada and Chanel, as well as a RM6.4m ($1.6m) gold necklace and a RM3.5m Rolex watch — were seized in May from five residences and an office...
...The hoard, composed of Malaysian ringgit, US dollars and 24 other currencies, was seized alongside 284 luxury handbags and 37 other bags full of jewellery and watches from an empty apartment at the Pavilion...
...Malaysian police also seized $275m worth of designer handbags, jewellery and watches from five Najib residences and an office, as well as $30m in cash in different currencies....
...Before the revolution in 1959, when Fidel Castro and his bearded rebels seized control of the country from dictator Fulgencio Batista, fine watches were as much a part of Havana life as crisp linen suits...
...The star draw in one sale was a solid gold Rolex watch encrusted with fine diamonds that supposedly belonged to Escobar....
...The piece is just one of three dozen watches – including 17 Rolexes – on the block. “He had quite a few watches,” said Jennifer Crane of the US Marshals Service’s asset forfeiture division....
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