173: I bought a watch
Wang Zhidong's joining is equivalent to filling a very important piece of Li Jun's business territory.
It is even more rare for professionals to solve professional problems, not to mention that Wang Zhidong is not only a technical master, but also a business talent.
After leaving the Pingjing Hotel, Li Jun and Wang Zhidong exchanged a few polite words and said they would meet again tomorrow to discuss their salary and benefits in detail.
Wang Zhidong went home first. Li Jun also bought a house in Pingjing, but he was too lazy to decorate it and left it there to wait for the value to increase, or wait until he was really free, so he always stayed in hotels in Pingjing.
A hotel has the advantages of a hotel. You don’t have to clean up and check in with your bags. As long as you can afford to pay, everything is easy.
There are many writers who like to write in hotels.
According to Liang Wendao, he and I have a ridiculous-sounding classification of writers, which is to divide them into two groups: those who write in coffee shops and those who write in hotel rooms.
For example, when Proust was writing "In Search of Lost Time", he went to Ritz to code every day, and this lasted for more than ten years.
The Ritz Hotel was founded in 1898 by Caesar Ritz, known as the "Father of Luxury Hotels in the World". As you can imagine, the prices here are expensive.
But Prusta, his native family is rich, so he can treat the Ritz Hotel as his own study room and clock in every day.
In sharp contrast is the "tough guy writer" Hemingway, who usually only carries enough money to buy two glasses of wine, and only goes to the Ritz Hotel once a month.
Later, Hemingway "liberated" the Ritz Hotel, which became an interesting story.
When the Allied forces regained Paris during World War II, Hemingway led people into the Ritz Hotel. Of course, there was already a group of English people in the hotel at this time, but our great writer confidently announced: "He has the final say at the Ritz Hotel."
And he made a noise arrogantly and rudely, "I am the one who wants to occupy the Ritz Hotel"
I don’t know what the English guys were thinking, but they actually let Hemingway occupy the presidential suite and hold a banquet.
Therefore, it is not only theft by scholars who steal books, but it is also reasonable for writers to lead the army to "recover" the hotel.
Li Jun didn't drive in Pingjing, he just rode a bicycle around.
In Pingjing in autumn, there is always a bit of dust swirling on the ground.
It's not just about those factories. There's a lot of dust here.
The leaves of the old locust trees on the street were swept up by the cold wind and fell rustlingly. The old man passing by casually knocked aside the leaves that were floating on him.
Pingjing is not like Shanghai. Its historical background gives it a very calm urban atmosphere, especially the native Pingjing uncle. When he opens his Beijing accent, he feels like he is walking a bird in a cage.
"If you wait impatiently for a certain day
Finally can wait
The love of my life”
Li Jun hummed Principal Tan's "The Love in My Life" and unknowingly came downstairs to the Settlement Shopping Center.
The lights are brightly lit and people come and go.
Li Jun had nothing to do, so he found a place to lock his bicycle and went in to take a look, holding his hands behind his back.
The Sète Shopping Center has been around since 1992. It is known as the business card of a famous store. In 1992, a Montblanc fountain pen sold for 8,000 yuan. It was also common for a IWC or Rolex watch to cost 100,000 yuan.
Most of the time, this is a tourist attraction. If you have nothing to do, come in and see what can be sold so expensively. However, there is no shortage of luxury goods in Pingjing. Later, more and more shopping malls of this kind opened. Until 2019, Sete closed directly.
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Because he was discussing cooperation with Wang Zhidong, although Li Jun was riding a bicycle and did not wear formal clothes, he was well dressed.
The tellers of luxury goods have sharp eyes and will not look down on Li Jun.
Li Jun walked around and saw that autumn had arrived. He bought a brown scarf for Li Jianghe and picked one for Pang Shulan. He walked a few steps and remembered something was wrong.
He remembered that Li Jianghe said that he had found a girlfriend, so he went back and bought a lady's one.
Carrying the scarf, Li Jun continued shopping.
"Hey, miss, can you take this one out and let me take a look?" Li Jun stopped in front of the Rolex counter and remembered that Li Jianghe didn't have a suitable watch yet.
Li Jun himself wears a Jaeger-LeCoultre flip series.
"A bit old-fashioned." Li Jun shook his head.
"What about this one?" The teller took out a Submariner series watch.
"Well, it's okay." Li Jun looked at it carefully.
The Rolex Submariner series is what people often call the “Submariner” series.
"Let me go shopping first." Li Jun left the Rolex counter.
"Sir, go slowly," the lady said with a smile without being in a hurry.
Li Jun walked around for a while and came to Blancpain's counter.
Blancpain is also a luxury watch brand, founded in 1735. It is the first registered watch brand in the world and the only modern watch brand collected by the Palace Museum.
The watch is independently numbered and is known for its complex functions.
"Miss, can you take this piece out and take a look?" Li Jun glanced at the counter and took a look at it.
"Okay sir," the teller carefully took out this watch from the watch cabinet, "Sir, this is Blancpain's Fifty Fathoms, the world's earliest diving watch."
In 1953, Blancpain Fifty Fathoms was born, nicknamed "Barracuda". It originated from the French assault frogman force, one year earlier than Rolex's Submariner.
A fathom is a British unit of length. One fathom is 6 feet, which is about 1.8288 meters. Fifty fathoms is about a depth of nearly 100 meters. In the 1950s when this watch was born, water resistance up to 100 meters was the highest specification.
So it is called Fifty Fathoms. There is also a theory that this name is related to Shakespeare's famous play "The Tempest", but it is a bit far-fetched.
Telling stories, if the stories are told well, the price will be high.
Li Jun looked at it and said, "Do you have production paper and so on?"
"Sir, the procedures are all complete. It is definitely not a parallel import." The teller lady smiled and said: "This one is 118,000."
"Are there any activities?" Li Jun was optimistic about this one.
It’s also a diving watch, but Li Jun doesn’t agree with Rolex that much. He thinks the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms is more suitable for Li Jianghe to wear.
This one has a sapphire outer ring and is of excellent quality.
"Sir, I can give you a 10% discount. No matter how low the discount is, you may have to go to Hong Kong City to get it. We have the lowest discount here." The counter lady continued to smile.
To say that temperament is a very mysterious thing, it is difficult to say what it is and in what proportion it can be mixed to create a temperament.
But when the lady at the counter looked at Li Jun, she felt that he had the temperament to spend 100,000 yuan on a watch.
"Okay, please wrap it up." Of course, Li Jun would not go to Hong Kong City again just for a discount. What's more, he came here for fun and would not feel that way when he went to Hong Kong City again. "Swipe your card here or at the front desk?
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"It's good here." The teller smiled brightly, as if she had met Andy.
Even though Li Jun looks ordinary, he looks so handsome with this move.
After a 10% discount, he spent more than 100,000 yuan. Li Jun didn't feel bad at all. He leisurely rode his bicycle back to the hotel. It was already past ten o'clock.
Chapter completed!