211.Mad Dog Zhou Xiangzhen (1)
After lunch, Chen Hui took Guan Yan to 53 Queen's Road Central to a Patek Philippe store. Updates are fast and ad-free.
Chen Hui was going to the welcome reception held by HSBC tonight, and suddenly thought that he was worth 15 billion US dollars, and he also brought a Swiss Rolex, which was really bad taste.
How can you do without a Patek Philippe bowl today!
Patek Philippe is known as the blue-blooded aristocrat of watches!
At the beginning of 1839, Aek and the Polish watchmaker Franois Czapek opened the Pictet Watch Company. In 1844, after the departure of Franois Czapek, Jean Philippe joined Pictet.
In 1851, Pictet officially changed its name to Patek Philippe.
The company is currently one of the only remaining truly independent watchmakers in Switzerland, producing in-house from start to finish, and it takes 10 years to train a Patek Philippe watchmaker.
Patek Philippe is meticulously handmade, with all the processes carried out in Geneva, in keeping with the traditional craftsmanship of watches. Known in the Swiss watch industry as the "Seven Geneva Traditions of Watchmaking", this traditional manufacturing technique is a combination of designers, watchmakers, goldsmiths, braceletmen, sculptors, porcelain painters and lapidologists.
Patek Philippe has a large number of customers, including some of the most prestigious figures, including Queen Victoria, Tchaikovsky and Albert Einstein.
Chen Hui feels that only such a world-class watch, the king of watches, can better enhance his taste and force his style.
"Brother Hui, what kind of place is this, it's too tall!" Guan Yan said in a low voice. Guan Yan was about to take out her mobile phone and take pictures.
But Chen Hui stopped her.
"Patek Philippe store, keep your mouth shut if you don't understand, it's my first time here! Don't make a mess for me! Let me be embarrassed!" Chen Leng glanced at Guan Yan and said.
At this moment, there are a few customers in the specialty store, if Guan Yan is allowed to take pictures, it will be so embarrassing! Chen Hui also felt that his face was dull.
The first time he came to this kind of place, Chen Hui didn't understand this watch at all. I only know that it is the most luxurious watch, something that can improve one's own style, something that can improve one's grade.
"Well, I know!" Guan Yan held her mouth, obediently honest, holding Chen Hui and not talking, but her eyes looked around curiously.
"Sir, welcome to your visit, is there anything you can help with?" said the staff with a polite smile
She could tell that the two people in front of her were also visiting the store for the first time.
"Hello, can you tell me about this watch?" Chen Hui said, pointing to a silver watch, to the female worker
"Yes, sir, this Patek Philippe 5002 Star Moon Tourbillon, the most important and rare, 18K white gold double dial watch, with 12 complications, including: minute repeater, tourbillon, perpetual calendar, retrograde calendar, starry sky chart, sidereal time, moon phase and moon orbit, trajectory display, ref. 5002..........
It is Patek Philippe's most complicated watch since its creation and is considered the finest in existence. The movement is made up of 686 components, which make up the 12 most important watch complications. Due to its technical complexity and ingenious design, only one of the 180 Patek Philippe master watchmakers was able to produce this model. The female staff member said to Chen Hui in detail one by one
"Well, it looks great!" Chen Hui said with a smile after listening to the professional introduction of the female staff.
Chen Hui was very satisfied with this watch and decided to look at other watches first to consider which one to buy.
So Chen Hui looked at the other watches, then pointed to a beige watch, and asked curiously: "Introduce me to this one too!"
"Yes, sir, this Patek Philippe Rare and Fine, 18K Gold, Barrel-Shaped Automatic with Minute Repeater, Perpetual Calendar, Retrograde Calendar, Moon Phase and Leap Year, Ref. 5013.
First introduced in 1992 with an elegant "tonneau-shaped" case, the 5013 was the first minute repeater to feature a self-winding movement as well as an automatic flyback date hand. When it was introduced, it was the most complicated watch Patek Philippe had ever seen. The female worker said in detail.
Chen Hui nodded, quite satisfied, and had not yet decided which one to buy, and then Chen Hui pointed to a platinum watch and said, "You can also introduce me to this watch!"
"No problem, sir," said the female clerk, smiling slightly.
"This Patek Philippe 5207 is also very fine and extremely rare, a platinum watch with minute repeater, perpetual calendar, tourbillon, leap year and day and night display, ref. 5207.
It is a new masterpiece of extreme complexity, and the most outstanding feature is its understated and restrained appearance. Although it looks like a sleek Calatrava, it takes a closer look to see the minute repeater slider, and the tourbillon of Patek Philippe watches is always concealed. If you don't notice the miniature window on the right side of the moon phase window, which shows the year, it's hard to see that the watch also has a perpetual calendar.
There's also a feature that can only be seen at midnight: the instantaneous switching of all calendar displays. This is not only an amazing function, but also another extreme embodiment of Patek Philippe's extraordinary complication with 212 parts............... "The female staff is still patient, and explained to Chen Hui in detail
"Well, this one is also very good, I like it a lot, I want to see more!" Chen Hui said,
After a while, Chen Hui pointed to a few more watches and asked the female staff, who still patiently explained and introduced them to Chen Hui one by one.
Chen Hui is very satisfied with these watches, likes them very much, and doesn't know which ones to buy. Chen Hui is going to buy a few more of these Patek Philippe watches, and every time he goes out, he will change one of these watches to go out.
"Thank you, I have to think about it for a while now before I can make a decision!" Chen Hui said to the female staff.
"It's okay, sir, think about it!" said the female clerk with a smile of politeness
At this time, an extremely unpleasant word came.
"Hey, Continental Tsai!If you can't afford a Patek Philippe, go out early!Don't get in the way here!" a middle-aged man scolded, his tone very disdainful.
When Chen Hui heard such disgusting words, he immediately turned around, and his eyes coldly glanced at this mad dog who mocked him for not being able to afford it,
The middle-aged man was wearing a loose shirt, a gold necklace around his neck, short, straight hair, oversized black slacks, a mustache, and a long face. At this moment, his right hand is holding a coquettish and bewitching woman.
The two of them looked at each other coldly.
The man looked at this mainland boy with extreme contempt, this mainland boy chose and chosen, picked and chosen, asked questions, it took so long, and he didn't say to buy.
This mainland boy obviously can't afford it, so he pretends to be everywhere! It affects his shopping mood, and looking at this mainland boy is very unpleasant and very annoying.
At this time, Chen Hui's face was ugly, he looked at this man with a gloomy face, and was about to speak,
"Just like you as a nouveau riche, it's not that I look down on you, a mainland boy, go out early, if you don't buy it, others will still buy it! If you can't afford it, don't be embarrassed!" The man said disdainfully at the corner of his mouth, and waved his hand to the door of the store after speaking, that gesture means calling this mainland boy, be interesting, and get out early.
He is a Vietnamese, born in Vietnam, because he has been doing business in Vietnam and Hong Kong all the year round, and he is one of the first people in Vietnam to get rich.
And his father was killed by the People's Liberation Army in the mainland's self-defense counterattack against Annan, when he was only a few years old, he lost his father early, and depended on his mother in his early years, and his life was very hard, very miserable, and then his mother remarried, and often suffered from his stepfather's cold treatment, and he suffered these sufferings, all of which were attributed to his father's early death, so he hated the mainland boy.
When he grew up, he seized life's opportunities.
He smuggled to Hong Kong in the 90s, and then started to do business between Hong Kong and Vietnam, because he has been doing business in Hong Kong for a long time, his life is getting better and better, and he has obtained the right of abode in Hong Kong because of his long-term business in Hong Kong
His name is Zhou Xiangzhen, and he is the owner of a physical clothing factory, and is a supplier to many companies, shopping malls, and clothing stores in Hong Kong.
However, because the real economy of the mainland has taken off in recent years, it has collapsed the real industrial chain in Southeast Asia, and countless manufacturers have gone to the mainland to invest and build factories, because the mainland has many preferential policies and low labor costs, attracting the influx of foreign capital.
Following the hollowing out of Hong Kong's manufacturing industry, land prices began to rise wildly, and labor costs continued to rise.
Zhouxiang Town's entity company, in a place where land prices are getting higher and higher, labor costs are getting higher and higher, the company's performance and profits are declining year by year, and it is becoming more and more difficult to maintain operation.
Because many of his company's orders have been robbed by mainland manufacturers, mainland manufacturers have preferential policies from the mainland, as well as low labor costs, and the garment factory in Zhouxiang Town has been robbed of many customers and many orders.
Zhouxiangzhen's garment factories can't compete with mainland producers.
Every time I see this group of mainland boys coming from the mainland. Zhou Shenzhen hated it very much, and when he found an opportunity, he had to mock it.
Recently, his company has faced a lot of problems, and today he originally came to Patek Philippe to buy a watch worth hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars for a drinking party, but he didn't expect to meet this mainland boy, and he suddenly felt very bad.
Usually I can't get used to these nouveau riche, and I can't wait to scold him once I see him.
Looking at this nouveau riche, there is an extremely beautiful woman beside him, born so beautifully, he is also very jealous in his heart, the woman next to him is one street worse than the woman next to this mainland boy.
At this moment, he looked at the beautiful woman next to this mainland boy and felt itchy, and looked at what he brought, the more he looked at it, the more jealous he became, why is this mainland boy!
In addition, this mainland boy's shopping seriously affected his shopping mood, and he couldn't help but ridicule this mainland boy.