Paul Thorpe was a luxury watch dealer. Here he explains how mainstream media are happy to report luxury watch thefts from celebrities but not the background to those thefts.
Yes I know it's wrong and the crims should be put to hard labour on Dartmoor but I really find it difficult to feel much sympathy with someone who gets robbed of a £17k watch which, after all, just tells the same time as my Timex.
Vatsmith - I find sympathy pretty difficult too. To an inexpert eye it isn't easy to tell the difference between ordinary watches and luxury brands, so why bother?
Just after I left working at one North London college in the 1990s,a student was held up at gunpoint for his Rolex - actually on the premises. The A level Geography lecturer came out to see what the fuss was about, and tried to talk four very jittery young thieves into putting the gun down and leaving. They were surrounded by a large group of students, all excitedly yelling for someone - anyone - to be shot. The irony was that it was a fake Rolex. I only hope it was a fake gun. Old Stan, the Geography lecturer, retired soon after.
How hard would it be to implant explosives in a watch or phone so that anyone stealing it loses a couple of fingers? The deportation team could wait for the call from the casualty department.
Sam - that sounds like a tense incident, the Geography lecturer certainly showed some courage. I suppose celebrities are picked out because their Rolex is unlikely to be fake. Anyone else picked out would have to be wealthy in some obvious way because fakes can be very difficult to distinguish from the real thing except by close inspection and some level of expertise.
It mystifies me how these robbers know that an individual walking down a dark street is wearing a Rolex watch? Where did Sam's young robbers, get a gun? One thing I do know, is that the criminal justice system; police and broadcast media nexus, now filled by the progressive liberal left, no longer combat such people, but enable them against the rest of us.
Tammly - I think the watch muggers use spotters in restaurants and hotels who check the watches of patrons and alert the muggers when they leave the premises. I agree, not enough is done to combat these things.
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Yes I know it's wrong and the crims should be put to hard labour on Dartmoor but I really find it difficult to feel much sympathy with someone who gets robbed of a £17k watch which, after all, just tells the same time as my Timex.
Vatsmith - I find sympathy pretty difficult too. To an inexpert eye it isn't easy to tell the difference between ordinary watches and luxury brands, so why bother?
Just after I left working at one North London college in the 1990s,a student was held up at gunpoint for his Rolex - actually on the premises. The A level Geography lecturer came out to see what the fuss was about, and tried to talk four very jittery young thieves into putting the gun down and leaving. They were surrounded by a large group of students, all excitedly yelling for someone - anyone - to be shot. The irony was that it was a fake Rolex. I only hope it was a fake gun. Old Stan, the Geography lecturer, retired soon after.
How hard would it be to implant explosives in a watch or phone so that anyone stealing it loses a couple of fingers? The deportation team could wait for the call from the casualty department.
Sam - that sounds like a tense incident, the Geography lecturer certainly showed some courage. I suppose celebrities are picked out because their Rolex is unlikely to be fake. Anyone else picked out would have to be wealthy in some obvious way because fakes can be very difficult to distinguish from the real thing except by close inspection and some level of expertise.
It mystifies me how these robbers know that an individual walking down a dark street is wearing a Rolex watch? Where did Sam's young robbers, get a gun? One thing I do know, is that the criminal justice system; police and broadcast media nexus, now filled by the progressive liberal left, no longer combat such people, but enable them against the rest of us.
Tammly - I think the watch muggers use spotters in restaurants and hotels who check the watches of patrons and alert the muggers when they leave the premises. I agree, not enough is done to combat these things.
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