Reply With QuoteEasy, he doesn't spend any money on shirts.
Ba dum dish!
Putin, Can I get something from you?
Stumped by plea, Putin gives away $9,500 watchhttp://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/8267/48/Factory worker at a Russian ammunition depot in the city of Tuli asked PM Vladimir Putin if he could receive something from which he'd remember him by.
-Mr. Vladimir Vladimirovic Putin, perhaps I could get something from you, to remember you by, asked the worker.
The Russian PM at first moved his hands showing he had nothing to give him and then asked the worker whether there was anything specific he had in mind?
-Maybe your watch, - was the reply from the worker, named Viktor Zagaevski.
After a short brake, Putin took off his Swiss made watch "Blancpain" evaluated at 6,400 EUR ($9,500) and gave it to the worker. Viktor Zagaevski would have had to work 16 months to purchase a Blancpain watch.
Russian journalists asked the worker whether it was awkward to ask Putin such question.
- No, why would I feel awkward, there is a good chance this is the first and last time I will see Mr. Putin, said Viktor Zagaevski adding that he first wanted to ask for a pen.
Putin is widely known for his love for Swiss watches. Recently he was seen wearing a 60,000 EUR ($86,000) Patek Philippe.
Very nice of him to do!
But the Guardian raises a good question:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009...factory-workerPutin's penchant for expensive watches has raised questions about how he can afford them, given his relatively modest official salary. In 2007, Russia's GQ magazine noted that the then president was sporting a yellow gold Patek Philippe watch, worth an estimated £51,000.
In a declaration this year, he listed his assets as an unassuming flat in St Petersburg, a bit of land in the Moscow region, a few shares in St Petersburg Bank, and two vintage 1960s Volga saloons. He did not mention the watches.
I mean a $86,000 watch! How can he afford that?
Easy, he doesn't spend any money on shirts.
Ba dum dish!
Oh man, Putin is awesome...
That was nice of him, even more so considering how long the man would have needed to work in order to buy such an item.After a short brake, Putin took off his Swiss made watch "Blancpain" evaluated at 6,400 EUR ($9,500) and gave it to the worker. Viktor Zagaevski would have had to work 16 months to purchase a Blancpain watch.
As for PP watch it's a gift from Nazarbayev IIRC, and technically it's a property of State, but i doubt there are many people who can tell Putin what he can, or what he cant' wear in public, some gift-sh/tski exibited in Kremlin from time to time, but assuming a legion of wealthy ppl who want to lick Vlads ass for profit, there must be craploads of expensive blings stored somewhere. According to law, state official can't have in his private property gifts cost more than 5000 rubles (150$). As for this particular gift 6500$ worth, i can see Kremlin accountant clerk "Yes Vladimir Vladimirovich, it was a right thing to do, and i will gladly write it off from my salary"
I for one await Vlads visit to my derevnya, and he better come with a radiator for a Volvo truck on him, it would be a great gift, Rolex watch will come in handy too, we ready to rename our single street after him any day.
Yes, i think Blancpain watch was pretty high on comrade Zagaevski "to do" list.Originally Posted by realityexists
nice gesture by putin.
the worth of the watch will be now even higher than 6400 Euro because its the former watch of Putin
expensive watches are typical gifts within the people of the upperclass in the world
my Guess, a rich oligarch gave it as a gift to putin to improve relations with him.
Im sure he got many gifts like that by russian upperclass
He gave my uncle a knife.
I don't think it was worth thousands of Euros though.
did putin send his bodyguards to recover the watch afterwards
Yes, and Comrade Zagaevski is off to the gulag...did putin send his bodyguards to recover the watch afterwards
If he has been wearing $86 000 dollar watches, then a $9500 dollar watch is his everyday watch.
I bet that soon this worker will have problem with tax office which will demand a tax he will be not able to pay.
Is the cell next to Chodorkovski free?
In USSR watches always were more then just watches.
Because of total deficit watches were the main image thing for any man. and now this trend continue.
i am sure not. And nobody will steal them, militia will find thiefts quick.
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