For example, costly Rolls Royce automobiles and Rolex watches do not outperform lower-priced Toyotas or Seikos.
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Too many African rulers still aspire, not perhaps to ties and jackets, but to Rolex watches and Mercedes cars.
This includes a lot of diamonds, precious stones, and gold, but also gifts like Armani suits, Rolex watches, and Ipads.
During another visit to Naples in 2006, police seized two Rolex watches.
Walk through Shanghai's infamous Xiang Yang Market and you'll have the chance to buy counterfeit Rolex watches, knockoff Nikes and pirated DVDs.
Well, invariably people use Rolex watches as bars to measure other watches.
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One of the recent incidents involved a man Mr. Abraham was showing a couple of gold ladies Rolex watches worth several thousand dollars each.
The father hailed from a Marwari trading family and was a dealer out of Kolkata in Rolex watches whose main sales were in steel wire.
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In a way, it is uplifting to see South Africa's new black millionaires flashing their Rolex watches and being grovelled to by managers of the very restaurants that used to exclude them.
Following a North Korean nuclear test in October 2006, the United States tightened sanctions, imposing an embargo on luxury goods, including cognac, cigars, plasma televisions, beer, iPods, Rolex watches, diamonds, wine, yachts and Harley Davidson motorcycles.
The market for fake luxury goods is nothing new -- knock-off Louis Vuitton bags, Rolex watches -- but the Italian Ferrari ring is an example of just how sophisticated the industry has become in the last few years.
In order to conceal the proceeds, the money often was used to purchase luxury goods, such as automobiles and expensive watches, said prosecutors, who have seized tens of thousands of dollars in cash, Rolex watches and a Mercedes G63 AMG and are in the process of seizing a Porsche Panamera.
South Korean and American officials say they believe the slush fund is worth billions, and that Mr. Kim uses it to help finance his nuclear weapons programs and to smuggle Rolex watches and other luxury goods, which he doles out to buy the allegiance of the party and the military elite.
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Like Japanese using their newly accepted JTB card who brought back bags of Kent cigarettes, Coach bags, Dunlop golf clubs and Rolex watches in the pioneer days of Japanese tourism to the U.S. in the early 1980s, the cachet for Chinese visitors of appearing wealthy and successful to family, friends, and work colleagues is definitely also a factor.
But when I see the most successful brands like Vuitton for bags or Rolex for watches or Cartier, they have been so long in the fake, and it has not slowed down their expansion.
His most popular items: watches with big faces, Rolex knockoffs and, yes, Mickey Mouse watches.
Off the golf course, he endorses watches (Rolex), video games (Electronic Arts) and trading cards (Upper Deck).
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With the new Submariner watches by Rolex with the ceramic bezel the older models such as Sea-Dweller or just Submariner are worth to be kept ten years or more.
And Wasun Pottipinpanon is, unbeknown to his wife, selling off a few of his Rolex and Piaget wrist-watches.
You really need to know enough about watches in order to perform the Rolex Submariner test, so in a larger sense, you need to know about watches a bit before people able to compare them.
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Through its Breguet, Longines, Blancpain, Omega and other brands, Swatch has about 15% of the market for expensive watches, trailing only Rolex and lvmh.
Among the 40 brands analyzed, the demand for replica sport watches is the highest, with Rolex representing 51 percent of the total demand for counterfeits worldwide, followed by Breitling (9 percent) and TAG Heuer (5.3 percent).
He still has more watches than wrists, among them a gold Rolex, encrusted with diamonds.
These special watches, with case number engraved on the inside case back, were sold by Asprey, the official Rolex retailer in the Arab world.
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