PM Prayut shows off to the media his expensive Seiko wristwatch

[newatthis]

2 hours ago, klauskunkel said:

Seiko, huh? I had him figured for a Timex man.

Oh come now!!! What's wrong with Timex. Good enough for the President of the USA.

[Next stop NK]

A psycho watch - gives a whole new meaning now

[speckio]

when the hell did sieko's become high watches???

[Bob12345]

1 hour ago, PerkinsCuthbert said:

"Seiko" and "class" don't seem to chime somehow. 

Seiko does make the "Grand Seiko" which is on-par with many Swiss brands in the "medium-priced" range (Rolex, Omega, etc).

And they have the "Credor" brand watches which compete nicely in the "higher-priced" range with their top models (AP, PP, etc).

[Bluespunk]

1 hour ago, Just Weird said:

It's not only Bangkok "elite" that collect watches, it is done all over the world.  Those who do it usually don't do it to be cool they do it as an investment and because they want to.  Collecting valuable watches is not vulgar, trashy or tasteless, at all, neither does it display low cultural standards (whatever they are).

Bragging about them at a press conference is indeed vulgar, trashy and tasteless. 

[jayboy]

Oh come now!!! What's wrong with Timex. Good enough for the President of the USA.

You are absolutely correct.But apparently there are many who simply cannot comprehend that wearing a Timex or similar actually shows more class.They could never understand.


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[gunderhill]

Why not wear "Big Ben"  round your  neck on your  next swimming trip?

[gunderhill]

43 minutes ago, Bob12345 said:

Seiko does make the "Grand Seiko" which is on-par with many Swiss brands in the "medium-priced" range (Rolex, Omega, etc).

And they have the "Credor" brand watches which compete nicely in the "higher-priced" range with their top models (AP, PP, etc).

All I know is if  you want to know the time "ask a  policeman" , well thats what they said when i was younger and being as Thailand has  more police than cockroaches ( similarities?)

[cookieqw]

My modest but extremely nice 2000 baht watch. Made in Thailand 

[sawadee1947]

6 hours ago, ezzra said:

I'd like to be a fly on the wall of his home when he open his safe

and see how many 'Seikos' he has there....

...or maybe PSYCHOs around him

[gunderhill]

14 minutes ago, cookieqw said:

My modest but extremely nice 2000 baht watch. Made in Thailand 

I'm not a  watch fan but  keep my Dad's old Omega Seamaster early 1960's  I guess?

[natway09]

It's these bloody Chinese,,,,,, they keep giving us things

Just because we buy trains from them

[Just Weird]

2 hours ago, jayboy said:

 

Is not status one of the misplaced reasons for the acquisition of very expensive and show offy watches?

Most Thai politicians are vulgar low grade arrivistes.A few are not but the majority are.In the former category you can bet the likes of Abhisit or Anand don’t collect bling watches.
 

 

Is not status one of the misplaced reasons for the acquisition of very expensive and show offy watches?

Maybe in your opinion .

 

In the former category you can bet the likes of Abhisit or Anand don’t collect bling watches.

Maybe you can bet that and maybe you'd be wrong, but what if they don't, what has that got to do with it?

Edited December 21, 2017 by Just Weird

[DavisH]

5 hours ago, coulson said:

Heavens no, you might look like a clown if you did that

Speaking of clowns....Prawit in his night job singing about his watches...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZoyCSffM7I

[Eric Loh]

30 minutes ago, Just Weird said:

Re-read the OP, he wasn't bragging, he was taking the mickey.

Is he a comedian or the leader of the country. He had the audience of the country for a very serious matter and talking the mickey is out of place, devoid of decorum and completely juvenile. 

[rkidlad]

4 hours ago, Happy enough said:

maybe they already had money, it happens you know. families pass down their money

Of course they received money from their families. How else did they buy their positions as generals? Integrity and hard work? 

[SiSePuede419]

"How about the next time I wear an alarm clock around my neck?”

 

It's about time somebody has a new idea around here...

 

Hello 1986! 

 

Hmmm, Dr Freud like to talk with you regarding the name of your favorite hippity hoppity band.

 

 

Edited December 21, 2017 by SiSePuede419
Typo

[rkidlad]

19 minutes ago, Just Weird said:

No, it doesn't make your point because he wasn't bragging, he was joking but how could bragging (if he had happened to brag, which he didn't) "minimize political corruption" anyway?

He was definitely, absolutely and unequivocally bragging. Zero doubt about that. No doubt at all. 

[InMyShadow]

Is he a comedian or the leader of the country. He had the audience of the country for a very serious matter and talking the mickey is out of place, devoid of decorum and completely juvenile. 

You sure you're on the right thread? Sounds like you described Donald trump.
Prayuth has way more class

[Eric Loh]

35 minutes ago, InMyShadow said:

You sure you're on the right thread? Sounds like you described Donald trump.
Prayuth has way more class

Has way more class, article 44, rubber stamp NLA, crony corruption agencies and guns to hold country hostage. Did I miss anything?

[Chris Lawrence]

Seiko 

[zzidenn]

I always find it quite frightening when elderly men become snappy and act like vindictive b*atches. Wise and smart are the qualities to look for in political leaders, so is modesty.

[jerojero]

For falk sake. Taking a page out of Trumps how to be a retard book of behaviours? Sheesh.

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[Beats56]

Never understood the need for expensive watches. I one got was from the company I worked for before I retired. Nothing fancy but nice. I use to have a novelty watch when I was a ĺad. It had a couple going up and down in the missionary potion if you know what I mean. Wish I kept it...good for a laugh.

 

 

 

[Ossy]

Prayut 1 : 0 Thailand’s Best Political Reporters

The crafty sew-and-sew: he turns up for his weekly grilling by the media, but puts them all – and most of us TV posters, too, I’ll warrant – all on the wrong foot by wearing his sexiest pink blouse and waving his Seiko around, milking the untimely Prawit situation for all its worth.

Throw in a bit of sarcasm and rhetoric and he’s turned a meeting that should have been asking him annoying questions about lifting the political meetings ban or whether the 42 billion BKK to CM high-speed rail project that, according to Transport Minister, Arkhom,

is scheduled to begin on 21 December 2017 . . . i.e. TODAY did actually begin or was that more of the endless stream of stools that emanate from his and his ministers' mouths?

The sad fact is that Prayut had us all beat, this TIME. And it cost me my good name with the Moderator, too. Boy, if I was a Thai reporter at one of those media bashes . . . . I'd . . . well, I'd . . . well, you know what I'm saying. 

Edited December 21, 2017 by Ossy
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[Srikcir]

A shame we can't see the watch.

The Seiko Grand Seiko SBGW252 yellow gold with crocodile skin is nice - $17,200 (negotiable)

https://www.chrono24.com/seiko/grand-seiko-sbgw252--id6589699.htm

 

 

[Thian]

6 hours ago, Bob12345 said:

If we are going that way in simplicity of responses i would say:

 

Yes. Thats better than putting people in oil drums and burn them alive.

 

If one party is known for atrocities in Thailand its the army.

If and i say IF you have prove of that you should send it to Amnesty International and Thailand will get a worldwide businessban tomollow.

 

I DO have prove of a man calling his followers to put Bangkok on fire, it's on video on youtube. And they even put a whole huge mall on fire already. (Central World for the ones who are ignorant).

 

For the rest i can only say: Cheers mate, take another one.

[Eric Loh]

8 minutes ago, Thian said:

If and i say IF you have prove of that you should send it to Amnesty International and Thailand will get a worldwide businessban tomollow.

 

I DO have prove of a man calling his followers to put Bangkok on fire, it's on video on youtube. And they even put a whole huge mall on fire already. (Central World for the ones who are ignorant).

 

For the rest i can only say: Cheers mate, take another one.

I am tempted to reply that the military start shooting before the call but it is off topic. 

[superglue]

What happened to Omega & Rolex?