It’s a surprisingly vexed question. You get voted into office as a Prime Minister or President, and suddenly the public’s attention turns to your wrist. Do you continue to wear the watches you’ve worked so hard to acquire? Or do you suddenly downgrade your wrist to what you were wearing when you were in short pants … Among the current international statesmen, Vladimir Putin is very much in the “If you’ve got it flaunt it” category. His astonishing watch collection stands alone. Where others prevaricate over Patek or Pulsar, Putin puts on the Ritz. Picks of the bunch would have to include his platinum A. Lange & Söhne Tourbograph that’s valued at over 525’000 CHF (more than $AUD890,000). The Russian president’s watch drawer is also known to includes a Patek Philippe Perpetual Calendar, Patek Philippe Calatrava, Breguet Marine, Blancpain Leman Flyback, and a Blancpain Leman Aqua Lung Grande Date (his fourth after he gave two Aqua Lungs away – one to a locksmith, another to a shepherd’s son – and then threw a third into liquid concrete at a building site). But would Putin’s Platinum-level wristgame be tolerated for long in a modern democracy? Judging by the wrists of other…
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