The son of China’s richest man has bought not one, but two gold Apple Watch Editions. For his dog.
Wang Sicong’s father, real-estate magnate Wang Jianlin, is worth about $34 billion dollars, and the 27-year-old son officially has too much disposable income.
The Apple Watches in question (pictured above) cost between $10,000 and $12,000 depending on whether the dog went for the 38mm face or the 42mm, but that doesn’t really matter because their owner doesn’t know rose gold from a polished turd.
“I have new watches!” the dog’s post on Chinese microblogging site Weibo says (translation via Yahoo Finance). “I’m supposed to have four watches since I have four long legs. But that seems too uncouth, so I kept it down to two, which totally fits my status. Do you have one?”
The post is technically correct; four gold watches on a dog would definitely be too many. But the flaunting is drawing the kind of attention you’d expect from people when they are confronted with the fact that an admittedly super-cute Husky is wearing the average 2012 income of 10 Chinese families on its paws.
“We’d like to pretend that this post is just a joke, but mostly because we don’t want to be mad at that adorable dog,” a post on The Shanghaiist says. “The dog can’t help that its owner is an asshole.”
The ultra-premium Apple Watch Edition, which is the company’s most expensive product ever, has been controversial since its unveiling. It’s a hyper-vanity version of first-generation tech which is ostensibly intended to compete with high-end Swiss watches but likely won’t appreciate in value and has the added albatross of becoming obsolete, unlike its “dumbwatch” counterparts. But it seems that with Editions making their way to their new owners and the idea of a watch that costs as much if not more than most people’s cars, we’ve just accepted the price and have pivoted our shock and indignity to target not those who buy the Edition at all, but those who buy the Edition for obviously stupid reasons.
And Wang Sicong is definitely one such person.
Evan Killham is a freelance writer who lives in Nebraska and isn’t interested in football, so he has plenty of time to play and think about video games. He has written for Bitmob and GamesBeat and sometimes, he even goes outside. But not too often because he’s heard there are bees out there. Occasionally, companies send free units for review. Evan subscribes to Cult of Mac’s Reviews Policy and also does not keep the items he receives for possible coverage.
8 responses to “World’s most spoiled dog scores two Apple Watch Editions”
That’s it, that is it! I have lost faith in humanity! Goodbye cruel world, I am never leaving my gaming mancave ever again!!!
Poor doggy.
But that little pooch could have had 62 LG Urbane smartwatches for that amount. All I can say is, “Oh, you lucky dog.” It was said the dog preferred the AppleWatch over all Android Wear smartwatches. All he needs now is a solid gold iPhone to go with those AppleWatches.
What the hell would a dog need or want 62 lg watches for?
I’m sure his dog will give him something special later.
oh ok… so what happens when Mr. Husky decides to chomp on them?
That’s twice as pretentious as having just one Apple watch! Is the dog’s self-esteem so low that it needs to prop its ego like this?
Tehcnically “apple’s most expensive product ever” depends on how you look at it. If you fully upgraded a mac pro a couple years ago it came out to around $24000…. in canada anyway. I’ll concede that this is the most expensive apple product that you could strap to a dog though lol.