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The watches are claimed to feature “premium, Swiss-Made materials and intricate details,” but so far as we can tell, the Fight Fight Fight uses a movement by Japanese company Seiko, while the Victory Tourbillon has a movement alleged to be partially built from Chinese components.
It gets better. In what quickly starts to resemble the tweet-riddled fever dreams of the extremely online, the watches are produced by a company called TheBestWatchesonEarth LLC, which is based in Sheridan, Wyoming, and, despite no watchmaking history to speak of, has a license agreement to use the Trump name for its timepieces.
“We also accept Bitcoin as payment!”, the [GetTrumpWatches](https://gettrumpwatches.com/) website yells, as if handing over actual dollars to a company who admits the images of the timepieces “are for illustration purposes only” isn’t enough to raise an eyebrow
Also known as a money laundering scheme to allow Russia and Saudi-Arabia to fund his campaign.
LuvKrahft on
Keep pointing out how weird it is to be selling 100000 dollar watches while every maga supposedly can’t afford eggs or diesel or church tithes or whatever else shit they want me to subsidize for them and only them nowadays.
Travelerdude on
This asshat was president??? What a scam artist.
Sunshinehappyfeet on
Trump hawking worthless tchotchkes on the coattails of his campaign. What an effing clown.
my_dosing on
Fucking hell
They’re not meant to work. You fucking dummies who plunked down your money. A fool and his money…
Enjoy trying to get a refund.
sarkastic_prophet on
The $100K watch is only there to set the hook and get MAGAs to buy the $500 cheapo version. Another sad con from Don.
KnownAd523 on
Do these watches even work? Since there is no magnetic field on Earth 2. 🤦🏻♀️
iyamwhatiyam8000 on
Someone needs to find the manufacturer and determine the cost of production. $20-50 is my guess.
He probably has a few up each arm for on the spot sales and discounts for cash.
JBupp on
”The latest Trump watches are available to order now, if you really must, but the website states vaguely how shipping starts in “October/November/December.” Despite only accepting pre-orders at this stage, the seller warns “there are no refunds. All sales are final.”
It adds: “Shipping and delivery dates are estimates only and cannot be guaranteed. We are not liable for any delays in shipments … We cannot guarantee when an order will arrive.” Most rarely find themselves in the market for a $100,000 watch, but WIRED imagines buyers generally seek more assurances on when their expensive purchases might arrive.
TopEagle4012 on
So let’s get real here. We know that the Cheapo versions are going to be for the suckers just like the sneakers and the Bibles and every other con. The $100,000 versions are going to be for all the folks that want to funnel money to his narcissistic psychopathic grifting rear end and this is a way to get around getting the money to him for obvious nefarious purposes.
TheBungerKing on
His cucklings will buy it nonetheless
mrchris69 on
The money for these watches does not go to the Trump campaign. The money goes directly into Trumps pocket instead.
LuckyErro on
Putin will buy them all but one and Musk will get the other.
LuckyErro on
he didnt make enough out of bibles? If there is a God Trumps going to hell for eternity. I wonder if Peter will send his surporters there to serve him.
Zogtee on
“Eggs are 4 dollars per dozen! Outrageous! Anyway, here’s a 100,000 dollar watch you can buy!”
Ok-Tourist-511 on
Its value is overinflated just like everything Trump.
SchrodingersTIKTOK on
Just waiting for them to just jump on the precious metals bandwagon but instead it’s a spray painted brick.
Localman1972 on
Trunp abuses his rubes
FirefighterEnough859 on
I’m trying to think what other junk he could try to flog vitamins, pet food, rap album?
mvw2 on
Not for public consumption.
A few REALLY stupid people might by one, but that’s not what it’s for.
12xubywire on
A dive watch, that won’t even survive a jump in the pool.
Dogzirra on
A fool and their money….
ghastlypxl on
Take out a small loan to purchase the concept of a watch.
CurrentlyLucid on
Pure grift, ez way to hand trump money.
inmatenumberseven on
Great way to get anonymous, Bitcoin-paid, illegal contributions.
Chief-_-Wiggum on
Its just another scheme to launder money “legally”. Whoever that needs to pay him buys watches .. thats it.
They don’t expect any watches ever…
Same as every other thing he’s been hocking.
RattlinDrone on
Does anyone know the actual value of the watches?
ruffoldlogginman on
TIL there are multiple tragic celebrity watches.
marcusmosh on
I’m so glad his assassination ‘photo op’ isn’t picking up any steam. No one cares. It should have been the one grift that was his payday for years to come.
Birthday-Tricky on
“JD, run down the block and pickup a few of those Rolexs the se on the corner; wegot orders to fill.”
06_TBSS on
Meanwhile, his cult is busy clutching their pearls over Kamala wearing a supposed $60k Tiffany necklace.
G-Money48 on
This is a front for Trump to accept foreign money. The watches can be paid for by crypto (untraceable) and they’re made to order – they don’t exist, and there’s no delivery time given to the purchaser. It’s a scam, US.
Also why don’t Americans see how weird it is for a presidential candidate to be hawking products? If anyone else did this, it would be pathetic
MaygarRodub on
I’m shocked. SHOCKED!!!
HelpfulTap8256 on
It physically looks like a 15 dollar Ali Baba watch – that cheap clasp is a dead giveaway. I assume it’s made out of gold plated brass.
hjaltih on
This watch is intentional Vapor ware. It will never exist, no one will get product. It’s means to be able to get funding from people not in the USA without being a funding issue. This way the Egyptian Secret Service can buy 100 watches like this and noone has any questions on where the 10 million came from.
Readgooder on
Wasn’t it figured it that this is money laundering? No date for delivery
ExileInParadise242 on
For a hundred grand I could just ~~bribe~~ provide a campaign contribution to a Republican congressman to follow me around and tell me the time.
ContributionFew4340 on
It’s a way for him to accept illegal donations. Only accepts bitcoin and there is no prototype to speak of. Small print says he reserves the right to provide his own shipping. Criminal behavior. Shocking!!
HallInternational434 on
Trump really makes America look like a clown country to the outside world. No wonder Putin and Xi want him to win, it will be destructive to America and it will allow them to seize more global power
CrisuKomie on
Bro this is money laundering.
Complaintsdept123 on
Bad headline. It’s not a watch, it’s a multimillion dollar bribery scheme for our foreign enemies to use to buy themselves a President.
sdbest on
It’s a bribery and money laundering scheme. And, that’s all.
johnnycocheroo on
The first thought I had was… great. Who’s gonna fix em? The answer is nobody. There is a barely-existent support structure for established watch brands in the USA. Who’s gonna service them? How long are spare parts going to be available? Need extra links so it can fit your wrist? Is there a customer service department to stock that extra link in 2 years? No fuckin way. Warranty repairs? HA! This is a flash in the pan brand that will have zero back end support.
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Announced this week by former US president Donald Trump, the collection consists of two pieces. One is called “[Fight Fight Fight](https://gettrumpwatches.com/collections/fighter)” and is priced from $499, and the other is the “[Victory Tourbillon](https://gettrumpwatches.com/collections/tourbillon).” The latter is claimed to be made from solid 18-karat gold, with 122 diamonds and a tourbillon automatic movement. It’s priced at a nice, round $100,000—about three times the price of an equivalent [Rolex Submariner](https://www.wired.com/story/martian-time/)—and, yes, [crypto payment](https://www.wired.com/tag/cryptocurrency/) is available.
The watches are claimed to feature “premium, Swiss-Made materials and intricate details,” but so far as we can tell, the Fight Fight Fight uses a movement by Japanese company Seiko, while the Victory Tourbillon has a movement alleged to be partially built from Chinese components.
It gets better. In what quickly starts to resemble the tweet-riddled fever dreams of the extremely online, the watches are produced by a company called TheBestWatchesonEarth LLC, which is based in Sheridan, Wyoming, and, despite no watchmaking history to speak of, has a license agreement to use the Trump name for its timepieces.
“We also accept Bitcoin as payment!”, the [GetTrumpWatches](https://gettrumpwatches.com/) website yells, as if handing over actual dollars to a company who admits the images of the timepieces “are for illustration purposes only” isn’t enough to raise an eyebrow
Read more: [https://www.wired.com/story/trumps-dollar100000-watches-are-the-most-tragic-celebrity-watch-yet/](https://www.wired.com/story/trumps-dollar100000-watches-are-the-most-tragic-celebrity-watch-yet/)
Concept watch*
Also known as a money laundering scheme to allow Russia and Saudi-Arabia to fund his campaign.
Keep pointing out how weird it is to be selling 100000 dollar watches while every maga supposedly can’t afford eggs or diesel or church tithes or whatever else shit they want me to subsidize for them and only them nowadays.
This asshat was president??? What a scam artist.
Trump hawking worthless tchotchkes on the coattails of his campaign. What an effing clown.
Fucking hell
They’re not meant to work. You fucking dummies who plunked down your money. A fool and his money…
Enjoy trying to get a refund.
The $100K watch is only there to set the hook and get MAGAs to buy the $500 cheapo version. Another sad con from Don.
Do these watches even work? Since there is no magnetic field on Earth 2. 🤦🏻♀️
Someone needs to find the manufacturer and determine the cost of production. $20-50 is my guess.
He probably has a few up each arm for on the spot sales and discounts for cash.
”The latest Trump watches are available to order now, if you really must, but the website states vaguely how shipping starts in “October/November/December.” Despite only accepting pre-orders at this stage, the seller warns “there are no refunds. All sales are final.”
It adds: “Shipping and delivery dates are estimates only and cannot be guaranteed. We are not liable for any delays in shipments … We cannot guarantee when an order will arrive.” Most rarely find themselves in the market for a $100,000 watch, but WIRED imagines buyers generally seek more assurances on when their expensive purchases might arrive.
So let’s get real here. We know that the Cheapo versions are going to be for the suckers just like the sneakers and the Bibles and every other con. The $100,000 versions are going to be for all the folks that want to funnel money to his narcissistic psychopathic grifting rear end and this is a way to get around getting the money to him for obvious nefarious purposes.
His cucklings will buy it nonetheless
The money for these watches does not go to the Trump campaign. The money goes directly into Trumps pocket instead.
Putin will buy them all but one and Musk will get the other.
he didnt make enough out of bibles? If there is a God Trumps going to hell for eternity. I wonder if Peter will send his surporters there to serve him.
“Eggs are 4 dollars per dozen! Outrageous! Anyway, here’s a 100,000 dollar watch you can buy!”
Its value is overinflated just like everything Trump.
Just waiting for them to just jump on the precious metals bandwagon but instead it’s a spray painted brick.
Trunp abuses his rubes
I’m trying to think what other junk he could try to flog vitamins, pet food, rap album?
Not for public consumption.
A few REALLY stupid people might by one, but that’s not what it’s for.
A dive watch, that won’t even survive a jump in the pool.
A fool and their money….
Take out a small loan to purchase the concept of a watch.
Pure grift, ez way to hand trump money.
Great way to get anonymous, Bitcoin-paid, illegal contributions.
Its just another scheme to launder money “legally”. Whoever that needs to pay him buys watches .. thats it.
They don’t expect any watches ever…
Same as every other thing he’s been hocking.
Does anyone know the actual value of the watches?
TIL there are multiple tragic celebrity watches.
I’m so glad his assassination ‘photo op’ isn’t picking up any steam. No one cares. It should have been the one grift that was his payday for years to come.
“JD, run down the block and pickup a few of those Rolexs the se on the corner; wegot orders to fill.”
Meanwhile, his cult is busy clutching their pearls over Kamala wearing a supposed $60k Tiffany necklace.
This is a front for Trump to accept foreign money. The watches can be paid for by crypto (untraceable) and they’re made to order – they don’t exist, and there’s no delivery time given to the purchaser. It’s a scam, US.
Also why don’t Americans see how weird it is for a presidential candidate to be hawking products? If anyone else did this, it would be pathetic
I’m shocked. SHOCKED!!!
It physically looks like a 15 dollar Ali Baba watch – that cheap clasp is a dead giveaway. I assume it’s made out of gold plated brass.
This watch is intentional Vapor ware. It will never exist, no one will get product. It’s means to be able to get funding from people not in the USA without being a funding issue. This way the Egyptian Secret Service can buy 100 watches like this and noone has any questions on where the 10 million came from.
Wasn’t it figured it that this is money laundering? No date for delivery
For a hundred grand I could just ~~bribe~~ provide a campaign contribution to a Republican congressman to follow me around and tell me the time.
It’s a way for him to accept illegal donations. Only accepts bitcoin and there is no prototype to speak of. Small print says he reserves the right to provide his own shipping. Criminal behavior. Shocking!!
Trump really makes America look like a clown country to the outside world. No wonder Putin and Xi want him to win, it will be destructive to America and it will allow them to seize more global power
Bro this is money laundering.
Bad headline. It’s not a watch, it’s a multimillion dollar bribery scheme for our foreign enemies to use to buy themselves a President.
It’s a bribery and money laundering scheme. And, that’s all.
The first thought I had was… great. Who’s gonna fix em? The answer is nobody. There is a barely-existent support structure for established watch brands in the USA. Who’s gonna service them? How long are spare parts going to be available? Need extra links so it can fit your wrist? Is there a customer service department to stock that extra link in 2 years? No fuckin way. Warranty repairs? HA! This is a flash in the pan brand that will have zero back end support.