Happened to be flicking channels last night and caught 15 minutes of the Ideal World (“QVC” in old terms) watch show on Freeview. They have some guy called Kevin Reynolds who I looked up and runs something called The Watchbase UK but I can’t work out what he actually does. Can’t believe the spiel they use to flog “genuine Russian” (made in Lithuania) watches.
Last night they had this monstrosity...from a brand called Charmex (which I’ve never heard of and if you’d said what does “Charmex” produce, I’d have previously guessed loo roll). RRP £4999 with a sale price of £3999 and the presenter saying they’d taken 3 orders with 2 left in stock.
Even though not my taste, I can understand someone buying a couple of hundred quid Vostok but who on earth spends £4000 on a watch from a TV shopping channel?!