August 31st, 2009
Luxury Swiss watch and jewellery maker Chopard has just taken a substantial order from Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
The order was for 250 limited edition watches valued at around 8 million Swiss Francs ($7.5 million).
They should each have the likeness of Colonel Gaddafi on them in some form and were ordered to celebrate his 40th anniversary of being in office.
It is a tricky move for Chopard to accept an order from someone with such a spotty record on human rights and so forth….
Source: Luxist - TSR (in French)
Posted in Luxury Watches
He’s a Chopard fan, I see.
I am disgusted with Chopard corporate culture of dealing with today’s high profile dictators.
After launching a jewellery line created by Gulnara Karimova, oligarch and daughter of brutal Uzbek dictator/president “Boil ‘em Alive” Islam Karimov, Chopard is now making friend with Gaddafi !
At Chopard, “Dictators are Scheufele’s best friends” …