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'Pretty cheap stuff': Expert hammers Trump Watch in scathing analysis
By Kathleen Culliton,
1 days ago
U.S. President Trump visits Flight 93 National Memorial during 19th annual September 11 observance in Stoystown, Pennsylvania Source: REUTERS
A luxury watch expert tried to take former President Donald Trump's new line of timepieces seriously — and almost immediately failed.
Oisín O Malley, UX designer and a prominent watch reviewer on YouTube, took Trump's newly announced $100,000 Tourbillon gold watch to figurative pieces in a 15-minute review in which he repeatedly broke out laughing.
"I think the man is generally quite hilarious, so nothing new there," O Malley said. "Let's take it seriously — if I can do that."
O Malley first examined Trump's $799 Fight Fight Fight onyx gold-plated watch and quickly dismissed it as "pretty cheap stuff."
He then turned to the Tourbillon, or open-faced, watch, in which O Malley found a number of flaws. The first of which was the promotional photography.
"I know gold watches very well — I have one here on my wrist — and when you see the fake gold watches, this is what the gold looks like," O Malley said. "The photos aren't really helping here."
But it's when O Malley viewed the back of the watch and read its "Fight Fight Fight" slogan that the reviewer had to laugh out loud.
"Ah, boy, the back is too much man," O Malley said. "This is a very poorly designed watch. It's very very basic, it looks like it was designed on a computer, on one of these standard watch-building sites."
O Malley also took umbrage with the "basic" font of Trump's name — noting it was not the iconic font that appears on the front of his buildings.
"I don't know where the hell they came up with this font," O Malley said. "It's really, really thrown together."
O Malley was baffled by the decision to stud the spinning bezel — a watch rim that allows owners to time events — with diamonds.
"There's nothing to time here," O Malley said, "Unless you're in the mood for counting tiny little diamonds, it wouldn't make a whole lot of sense."
Even the $100,000 price tag earned a laugh from O Malley who argued it made obvious Trump's obvious goal in offering the watches for sale.
"I assume this watch was not very expensive to put together — he's probably making a lot of profit," O Malley said. "I think that's quite funny as well."
As for buyers, O Malley suggested the key draw was the name on the dial — otherwise they'd purchase a $30,000 gold Rolex he argued had a better design at a fraction of the cost.
"But of course they don't say Trump on the dial, do they?" O Malley said. "If you're a Trump fan, everything you're seeing is beautiful."
Of course it’s cheap. What’s hilarious is the majority of chump supporters can’t afford that shit and the ones that can aren’t stupid enough to buy it. Lmao
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