Posted on 05/17/2016 9:58:59 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A paramedic has been accused of swiping James Gandolfini‘s $3,000 Rolex as he laid dying from a massive heart attack.
Claudio Bevilacqua, 43, allegedly stole the Submariner watch from “The Sopranos” star after he collapsed in the Boscolo Luxury Hotel Exedra in Rome during a family trip in June 2013, according to NBC News.
He was rushing Gandolfini to the hospital that night when the timepiece disappeared, though it is unclear if it vanished from his hotel room or while the actor was wearing it
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I see what you did there.
Good Job! :-)
Or just want a souvenir of their brush with fame......Or are AA hires. And that don’t mean black.
“The Fleshy Part of the Thigh” is the sixty-ninth episode of the HBO original series, The Sopranos
Tony meets the paramedic that checked his wallet for his insurance card and accuses him of stealing $2,000 from it.
The man denies taking any money for himself, but Christopher and others intimidate him to pay the money back if he does not want to get hurt.
Expect to hear “he told me to take it for coming to his aid. I tried to refuse but he was getting agitated, so I accepted it to calm the patient.”
Yeah, I notice a lot of posters haven't actually read the story. He "could" have stolen it. That's all a lot of FReepers need when an actor loses his watch.
I think it was a Submariner Date, 16610LV (the anniversary edition with the green bezel insert). That’s closer to $ 7,500 on the pre-owned Rolex market
The Wallet Biopsy.
I recall he was upset due to the “wallet biopsy”.
Hahaha! Yes, ultimately a timepiece tells the time, and a $10 Quartz tells the same time (in fact, more accurate time) than a $ 10,000 Rolex or Omega automatic timepiece.
But once you get into nicer timepieces, the differences between a $ 20 watch, $200 watch, $2,000 watch and a $ 5,000 watch are very noticeable. But ultimately, they should all reliably tell the time, and if that’s all you’re looking for in a timepiece, then you will be satisfied.
Personally, I find quartz movements annoying as hell and I can’t stand the sight of the second hand ticking one second at a time. Quartz movements (or LCD digital readouts) have very little personality. Automatic movements have heart.
First World Problem, I know. :-)
Most are, but not by much. Despite what the average Joe thinks about Rolex watches, they are at the low end of the "luxury" watch market. Now, you can pay $40-50k for certain models, but a lot of their stuff is less than $15k, and you can get a new Rolex for $6k. You can easily spend $200K for a watch if you want. For the most part, Rolex doesn't play in that league.
On the other hand, if you're travelling, pretty much no matter where you are in the world, if the rotating oscillator is being splattered with excrement, you can pretty much guarantee that a Rolex watch will be accepted for a plane ticket to civilization. It's recognised world wide as being a pretty liquid and valuable commodity. Such things have uses beyond mere timekeeping.
That’s exactly right. Rolex is the working man’s luxury watch. Rolex’s roots are in crafting excellent tool watches (which really peaked with the five digit references) and they really do a great job of it.
For me, the distinction is that a Rolex (particularly five digit references) makes watches that are also beautiful pieces of jewelry, while other higher end watches (Cartier, for example) are beautiful jewelry that are also watches.
Many of the modern six digit references are awesome, but they started drifting a bit more towards jewelry/watches and strayed a bit from watches/jewelry.
But indeed, they’re not high end luxury watches. For me, they hit the beautiful tool watch “sweet spot,” and I also like that it remains one of the most unambiguously masculine brands out there (in an era of increasing androgyny).
My normal-wear watch is a $13 Casio I got in ‘11; before that it was a $25 Casio I got in ‘03. I also got a $100 Fossil watch in ‘03 that I’ve worn about three times.
“Bevilacqua.”
I think that means to tinkle, in Italian.
I’m wearing a Timex Expedition that I’ve had for about ten years...I don’t remember the cost, but it was less than $30...
As long as it is accurate, I don’t really care about aesthetics....
I had a co-worker who “had a line on” Rolex’s that were so good you couldn’t tell them from the real thing. They had “supposedly” fake serial numbers and appeared by all common standards to be real. He sold them for $250.
I never bought one, though I was tempted.
I found out, years later, that they were real Rolex watches. A friend of his had stolen an entire shipment of Rolex’s and discovered, because of the serial numbers, that they were difficult to fence.
The truth was discovered when one of the purchasers died and his heir, thinking that the watch was genuine, took it to a jeweler for cleaning and maintenance. The jeweler checked the Rolex against a database, discovered the property was stolen, and called the police. The heir had no idea where the watch came from, was able to prove he had inherited it, and so was not prosecuted, but the watch was confiscated.
“A little hard for me to believe, paramedics are the good guys/gals.”
Why bless your heart.... LOL
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