Just goes to show... money can't buy you taste... that is one hideous looking watch.
Kim Kardashian's bosom pal in bling snatch Instagram unpleasantness
Kim Kardashian's best buddy was roughed up by a wannabe mugger soon after Instagramming his $500,000 gold watch in a flash cafe, according to a New York gossip column. Jonathan Cheban, who frequently appears on the execrable reality show Keeping Up with the Kardashians, was busy chowing down on an alfresco lobster lunch at the …
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Thursday 22nd August 2013 20:03 GMT JLV
can't buy you brains either.
Though methink the watch does fit the Kardashian look perfectly.
One thing that stuck in my mind re. Kim, besides all the tabloid crap during supermarket checkouts.
Some years back, Consumer Reports found, in reviewing celebrity branded credit cards, Kim's version was the worst in how much it gouged its users financially.
Nice gal, to screw her adoring fans, nope?
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Thursday 22nd August 2013 20:24 GMT Don Jefe
Re: can't buy you brains either.
That's because the licensing for quasi-branded cards goes through three or four intermediaries, who each add a %. It's not especially cheap to do, but you too can have JLV branded credit card and sign up all your enemies.
Say, I know a guy, who knows a guy. I can set you up with him for .08% of future transactions...
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Thursday 22nd August 2013 21:13 GMT JLV
Re: can't buy you brains either.
Skimming certainly happens, but those financial arrangements exist with other celebrities as well.
Odd that the skimming was the heaviest in Keeping Up With The Kardashians-land, no? Could it possibly be because her cut was bigger than the other celebs'?
YMMV, but I choose blame it more directly on the gold-digging b**ch, not on unknown circumstances. May be unwarranted, but it could hardly happen to a nicer person ;-)
And, sorry, Business Insider, not Consumer Report:
http://gawker.com/5693964/kim-kardashians-credit-card-may-be-the-worst-credit-card-ever
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Thursday 22nd August 2013 16:59 GMT Anomalous Cowshed
Phwoarrr!
It's stories like these that make scum like me content with our lot and entirely satisfied that we are not mingling with these high-fliers - are they planted on purpose? I wonder.
The watch however, looks amazing - not to wear, but just to look at.
Earlier this year I saw a watch selling for £240,000 at Selfridges. Obviously that's for a lower income crowd.
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Thursday 22nd August 2013 17:52 GMT theblackhand
Re: Who's Kim Kardashian?
Rather than asking this question, just be content in the knowledge (ignorance?) that not knowing makes you a better person in so many ways....
You'll have to trust me that this isn't an insult as you will never re-coup the brain cells lost if you Google her or the time spent asking the question "why?".
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Thursday 22nd August 2013 20:03 GMT Don Jefe
Re: Who's Kim Kardashian?
Here is the place for all you may want to know about the Kardashian's.
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Saturday 24th August 2013 12:54 GMT Ruisert
And a rich lawyer dad who reps the stars in Hollyweird. (He was one of OJ's "Dream Team" that allowed him to literally get away with murder. ) And this is the only reason she has a TV show. Not, of course, that anything like talent is required for a "reality" TV show. Much like another ill-gotten spawn of the rich, Paris Hilton, Quim is famous merely for being famous. It's people like her, and her, and the doofus about whom the article was written, that make me desperately wish one hugeass asteroid would hit Earth and wipe out 99.9% of the human race, Hard to believe after 4 billion years of evolution that this is the best that can be had...
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Thursday 22nd August 2013 17:27 GMT Mike Flugennock
Wow, too bad...
...that guy didn't get away with the watch.
Not that there aren't more important things to get pissed off about, but it really bugs the shit out of me when I see these filthy-rich-assed hot shots posting fotos on Instagram and Twitter of their new watches'n'bling, and fotos of their restaurant checks.
It really is a shame that guy didn't get away with that asshole's watch.
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Thursday 22nd August 2013 21:35 GMT Daniel B.
Re: Wow, too bad...
...that guy didn't get away with the watch.
So I wasn't the only one thinking that! $500k would clear my debt, pay off my apartment and probably give me a 2 year long vacation period. There's no way in hell I'd buy something as expensive as that; but even more, if I did have one I wouldn't Instagram it! That's just asking to get mugged!
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Thursday 22nd August 2013 17:58 GMT Byz
I'd rather have...
Good health, happiness, true friends and a loving family, but most of all be happy being me :)
Than all the riches in the world.
(Having had bad health in the past it is wonderful to have good health again)
I've met so many wealthy people or people working all the hours God gave them to be wealthy, who are really miserable as the only thing they have is money. Eventually it becomes so consuming they can't enjoy it as they have to get more.
However as my wife says "Money doesn't make you happy but it makes misery bearable"
;)
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Thursday 22nd August 2013 19:11 GMT Destroy All Monsters
Re: Ohmigod...
But on the other hand, the money goes to the watchmaker, who will use it to buy the bonds of a company in dire need of cash so that it may
extend its capital structuretool up in order to produce more of goodie X. This however, means that worker Y and Z need to be hired, which means that their income can be used to feed wife and children.So by buying this watch MAY HELP THE ECONOMY!
And the original money came from couch potatoes. CAPITALISM ROCKS!
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Thursday 22nd August 2013 18:32 GMT disgruntled yank
Geography
"in the city's posh Hamptons district"
The Hamptons are at the eastern end of Long Island, quite a trek from New York City, say 90 miles or 150 kilometers.
The more interesting question may be how one could dispose of a stolen watch of that sort. I doubt that the fences would want something that notorious, or care to pay anything like the nominal cost if it didn't make such noise.
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Thursday 22nd August 2013 20:11 GMT Don Jefe
Re: Jacob & Co
A Patek Phillipe is a mechanical marvel and a testament to human ingenuity, engineering and the study of the natural world. Jacob & Co watches are not fine timepieces, they are jewelry, no different than having a solid gold diamond encrusted hood ornament on your car, which is effectively what they are.
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Thursday 22nd August 2013 22:40 GMT M Gale
Seem to be a lot of envious people here.
Bad taste is not a crime fer fuxache (unless you say the wrong things in the UK of course), and it's still some nasty scrote of a thief trying to nick someone else's stuff. Personally I'm disappointed said thief didn't end up with a few broken extremities in the ensuing struggle. It might have taught him a lesson or two.
Or perhaps not, but it's harder to mug someone when you don't have the use of your fingers. Or legs.
Would any of you act differently, if that was your portable tech toy about to get robbed? I'd wager there's a few here who'd probably like to push the thief's teeth out through his arsehole if it happened to them.
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Friday 23rd August 2013 07:53 GMT Eradicate all BB entrants
Envy doesn't come into it.....
..... but incredulity about the watch owners stupidity does. Compared to properly engineered watches the thing is just a cheap ebay watch coated in expensive materials. It was not purchased as a magnificent piece of engineering, it was purchased to show how much more money he has than you. It was bought to gloat with. Paying that much for a Ferrari Enzo is understandable as it probably had more engineering expertise spent on the wheel nuts than in that entire watch.
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Friday 23rd August 2013 08:07 GMT codejunky
@ M Gale
It would appear that you (and I) have the minority opinion so far. Apparently it is ok to steal from someone showing off an over expensive item while being (or friends with) show-offs. I guess its ok to steal as long as you dont like the people you steal from. Maybe the poor should en-mass break into middle class homes because those show-offs have a nice house and cars etc.
Its a sorry world we live in M Gale. I cant believe you got down voted nor can I balance it out. But you are not alone. I too think it is wrong to steal.
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Friday 23rd August 2013 08:21 GMT Paul Crawford
I expect most readers think it is wrong to steal, but equally they think it is mind-numbingly stupid to advertise / taunt the masses with something that is there principally to show off the fact that the wearer has more money to spend on a single item of decoration than the average person can earn in a decade.
As for taste, well that of course is one's own matter. Personally I think the watch is tacky, as a fraction of the cost would buy a selection of watches that are either better examples of mechanical engineering and/or more accurate in time-keeping (possibly both). If you ask readers of a technical news site for an opinion, don't be surprised if they don't share some of this view point.
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Friday 23rd August 2013 14:14 GMT codejunky
@paul
Some people buy over expensive and flashy items to treat themselves. Most people I know will splurge on a single flashy item. For some people its a car. Even personalised number plates is a flashy and not cheap item and it is definitely for showing off to the world. Look at people with the latest I-gizmo or samsung item. How many woman wearing flashy jewellery?
The point is that not everyone can afford it, and its not to everyones taste. But it is still wrong for someone to try to steal it. Especially under the flimsy excuse that they were asking for it or could afford it.
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Friday 23rd August 2013 08:37 GMT cordwainer 1
A rich guy with class . . .
Would have helped the mugger remove the watch and said, "No need to cause a scene, my good man. Here, take it. And good riddance, hideous thing. What WAS I thinking?"
I can't answer for others here, but I'm betting the majority have more sense than to play tug-of-war with a mugger who might have a knife or a gun or be a total psychopath. Me? I say, it's just a thing, no matter how expensive. Let them have it. It's not worth risking my life, the one item I can't replace. Not to mention pesky laws noting self defsnse only comes into play when one's actual self is threatened with injury or death.
And speaking of death, $500,000 would go a long way toward preventing quite a lot of suffering and it....and that's where you might want to look up "envious" in the dictionary, because I'm not sure you know what it means.
"A lot" of people here are genuinely depressed and/or appalled at how many wealthy individuals like Cheban seem to think simply having and spending large sums of money is something to brag about. Whereas in reality, inheriting millions then blowing a great wad of it on a shiny thing to wave around is not an achievement.
I don't know exactly what it IS. Except what's clear from history is that inability to grasp the real-world value of that kind of money, and the lack of perspective such a purchase reveals, are all too often indicators of underlying pathology, at the very least some kind of mild mental illness or psychological impairment. It's unhealthy, and robs them of the ability to recognize when their behavior might lead to serious harm, whether to themselves or others.
Oh, you're right when you say it's not a crime. Not legally. But you have to remember: the mindset behind such an action - the decision to waste an enormous investment that could accomplish something of genuine value, even if only in that individual's own life - is the equivalent of a crime in most belief systems and many social systems. Religion I suppose would call it "sin" instead, though whether "greed" or "vanity" I leave for others to debate.
If you object to the mention of sin, I must reply (somewhat childishly), "you started it" by accusing other commenters of the mortal sin of envy. Nonsense. The majority of comments criticizing Mr. Cheban merely point out (albeit with a good deal of disbelief and contempt) that spending the sum in question on an item such as the one shown can in no way be considered an "accomplishment", at least not one a completely sane or mature person would take pride in.
Any halfway rational adult would instead be embarrassed to admit he was so badly conned by a salesman, or a bit of clever marketing, and that he let himself be ripped off so royally. A fully rational adult would seek help.
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Friday 23rd August 2013 14:43 GMT M Gale
Re: A rich guy with class . . .
Not to mention pesky laws noting self defsnse only comes into play when one's actual self is threatened with injury or death.
If someone is prepared to rip that watch from your wrist, or try to take that iThing out of your hand, how do you know they are not prepared to kick the shit out of you just for the lulz anyway?
And how do you know if they'll stop when you're down?
Any initiation of violence is a quite valid excuse to defend yourself, as dangerously as you can muster. You simply don't know how far the other person will go.
As for the objections to my post being from people pointing out that the watch was overpriced and tacky.. no. Read up. Read such things as "that's what you get" and "evolution in action". I'm no religionist, so I don't think there is such a thing as "sin" in a religious context. However, to say that people here are not envious that someone can afford half a million to blow on a blinged-up watch, is to have not read the entire comments section.
Have to say I'm a little envious myself, but I detest muggers with a vengeance that burns far brighter than any dislike I may or may not have for particular show-offs.
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Saturday 24th August 2013 04:13 GMT MachDiamond
Tips for the beautiful people
Do not post pictures of your fancy watches/jewelry/solid gold iPad on social media with a note on what you overpaid for it.
Do not post that you are on vacation for the next 2 weeks in a far away country if you don't have security guards on duty at your house.
Think before you post any personal information.
Don't post.
The mugger was a rank amateur. Most experienced robbers would have given him a black jack to the head and had the watch in 5 seconds if they thought that they could resell it for enough. I doubt that many would be willing to take the risk. The watch is too obvious and too overpriced to have much resale value.