Three styles of the “Victory Tourbillon” watch. (GetTrumpWatches.com)

Watch expert says $100K Trump gold watch only costs $25K to make

9/27/24 4:23PM

ICYMI, Donald Trump is selling watches. Introducing “Victory Tourbillon”: 122 diamonds, 200 grams of 18 karat gold, and a tourbillon movement. With a hefty price tag of $100,000, to boot.

But the internet’s favorite Swiss watch technician – Alexander Colvin, aka @thewatchregulator – said that the watch is only worth probably a quarter of its price, at most.

Movement: $3,000

First up, what’s moving the watch? The Victory Tourbillon’s movement was made in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, by Olivier Mory, who founded the watchmaking company BCP Tourbillon, Colvin said. Mory’s productions were known to be accessible and affordable, starting around $3,000.

(A Wired article pointed out that Mory’s tourbillon was, ironically, half made in China, and half made in Switzerland.)

Even then, Colvin compared the Victory Tourbillon to a $7,350 ballard Onyx Tourbillon that BCP made:

We can clearly see that the level of finishing on the Trump tourbillon versus the finishing on the 7,500 dollar watch is far, far inferior, making me believe that this is probably the very cheapest tourbillon that BCP manufactures.

Gold: $13,000

Now, onto the price of the gold, which usually makes up the most value of, well, a gold watch. One gram of gold costs about $65; Trump claimed that his watch has 200 grams, so that’s 200 times $65 = $13,000.

Diamonds: $1,500

Colvin’s friend Shanyn Linklater, aka @shanyn.the.jeweller, added that the 122 Very Slightly Included 1 (VS1) diamonds on the watch were unlikely to cost more than $1,500.

Manufacturing: $7,500

Lastly, Colvin kindly added the cost of manufacturing the watch and said that the watch is worth $25,000 at most, so I subtracted that by the materials cost we’re left with about $7,500 in other production charges.

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According to the GetTrumpWatches website, these watches are sold by a company called TheBestWatchesonEarth LLC.

(Please excuse us briefly while we rename Sherwood News “TheBestNewsPlaceOnEarth”).

If you still plan to buy it, just know that the shipping starts “October/November/December,” so only pre-orders are being taken at this point. There are no refunds, either, with all sales final. But you can pay in Bitcoin, if that’s your thing.

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Anthropic announced a $20 million donation to Public First Action, a new super PAC that advocates for AI policies and regulations that prioritize public safety. The PAC describes itself as “a counterforce that will defend the public interest against those who aim to buy their way out of sensible rule-making.”

The move is seen as a counter to OpenAI’s growing investments in PACs that argue for less AI regulation.

OpenAI recently donated to Leading the Future PAC, which has received over $50 million from the family of OpenAI president and cofounder Greg Brockman, and the VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. The PAC says it is focused on “identifying, maintaining, and growing pro-AI candidates in order to support an AI innovation policy agenda at the state and federal level.”

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Netflix said the DOJ is conducting a standard review and it expects its acquisition to be approved.

Per Wall Street Journal reporting, the DOJ is also seeking out information on how Paramount’s proposed acquisition could harm competition in the entertainment industry.

Netflix has argued that its acquisition of WBD would not be anticompetitive, as there is an 80% overlap in Netflix and HBO Max subscribers. The company has said it competes not just with streaming services but also with broader content platforms like YouTube and TikTok for attention. Netflix booked $45.2 billion in revenue in 2025, compared to YouTube’s $60 billion.

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Starting in Meta’s home state of California, the tech giant is pledging $65 million to a pair of super PACs that it created to fund pro-tech and pro-AI candidates at the state level, according to a report from Politico.

Meta has funded the American Technology Excellence Project ($45 million) and Mobilizing Economic Transformation Across (META) California ($20 million) to push back on what it sees as burdensome AI regulations coming from state legislatures.

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