The moment the manager placed the watch box down, opened the lid, and revealed the watch that belonged to Zhou Wang, all the girls’ eyes were instantly drawn to it.
The dial, carved from rose gold with a ring of square diamonds around it, might not capture everyone’s aesthetic, but its sense of luxury undoubtedly struck a chord in anyone’s soul.
After the manager, wearing gloves, took apart the watch from the packaging, he respectfully handed it to Zhou Wang, "Mr. Zhou, this is the Patek Philippe Grand Complications Collection 6104R-001 you ordered, also an exemplary piece among our Patek Philippe dress watches. Please inspect it personally..."
Zhou Wang took off his IWC watch, received the 44mm dial "Starry Sky Watch," and tried it on his wrist.
In fact, this watch didn’t quite match Zhou Wang’s aesthetic, but perhaps due to psychology, after examining it from all angles, he gradually found it pleasing and even increasingly attractive...
"Mr. Zhou, I also need to inform you that, due to exchange rate fluctuations after you placed your order, the current domestic price of the 6104R-001 has dropped by about 18,000 RMB. This difference also exists in regions like Hong Kong Island, but please believe this was not our intention," the manager said, bowing deeply to Zhou Wang with solemnity.
Zhou Wang was taken aback and, out of curiosity, asked, "What is the current list price?"
As Zhou Wang asked, Wang Ying and Cindy, standing by, perked up their ears.
They had just heard words like "difference of 18,000," and considering the Patek Philippe atmosphere here, they already had a sense that this watch was definitely not cheap...
But how expensive could it be?
A hundred thousand? Two hundred thousand? Three hundred thousand?
The two girls exhausted their imaginations and subconsciously held their breath.
At this moment, the manager smiled and replied, "The current official domestic price for the 6104R-001 is 4,064,000 RMB..."
"Ah!"
Cindy let out a gasp, causing the manager to give her a strange look as she quickly covered her mouth.
Meanwhile, Wang Ying, appearing expressionless, had long been gripping Cindy’s hand next to her tightly. In fact, half of Cindy’s gasp was due to Wang Ying’s excessive pressure.
Although she managed to disguise it in time, Wang Ying’s tooth-gritting expression was inevitably quite silly.
Four million!
Even though Wang Ying’s family background was relatively common, she grew up in a big city like Jinmen, where she occasionally saw some luxury items among friends, but those were mostly clothes, cosmetics, and the like.
A watch for four million, equivalent to a lifetime’s struggle for an ordinary person’s house, equivalent to her best imagined twenty years’ future income.
And she could gather an important piece of information from the previous conversation between the manager and Zhou Wang... Zhou Wang had more than one Patek Philippe.
Oh, my...
Cindy, beside her, didn’t fare much better, having grown up in the modest environment of Jiang Province. After coming to Beidou, she encountered such a direct financial impact for the first time.
The shock made Cindy suddenly understand why several senior sisters she knew from Jiang Province, who had sworn they would marry back home before leaving, eventually defied tradition and disappeared without a trace.
Glancing at Zhou Wang, Cindy blushed inexplicably and quickly lowered her head in disarray.
She stealthily tried to take off her 200-yuan Hello Kitty little mother-of-pearl watch behind her back.
With good manners, the manager did not pay attention to the girls’ small actions and continued confidently, smiling at Zhou Wang, "Of course, as far as I know, the market price for the 6104R-001 in the secondary market has already approached five million. Besides, six months ago, the public price for the 6104R-001 was only 3,400,000. I think Mr. Zhou, you are quite aware of this... We at Patek Philippe are always on the path of value appreciation, ensuring every transaction with us is a successful investment."
"Of course, I understand that." Zhou Wang smiled. After all, Patek Philippe’s catchphrase was, "No one actually owns a Patek Philippe, they are merely looking after it for the next generation." Even from a value retention perspective, Patek Philippe outperformed every brand.
After inspecting the watch, Zhou Wang happily signed the delivery note, and the smile on the manager’s face grew even brighter.
Even though the money had been paid earlier, this transaction was only officially completed at this moment, and commissions were no small matter. The key was that he had once again made an impression in front of a top customer like Zhou Wang, greatly benefiting his development at Patek Philippe.
At this moment, Anna, with her long legs, returned with the mailing receipt from before for Zhou Wang to review.
Zhou Wang glanced at it, and his brows furrowed.
From the receipt, to sponsor the tenth-anniversary exhibition at the Yuan Mansion in Beidou, he had taken out a total of seven different Patek Philippe limited editions, which were then sent abroad after the exhibition...
Upon seeing the estate address of some country in Europe, Zhou Wang understood something.
Could this be Caroline’s residence?
Well, it seemed the system did not leave him any loopholes. Although those watches were his, he still couldn’t obtain them now.
For instance, even now, he didn’t know how to contact his nominal chief secretary.
Shaking his head, after memorizing the estate’s address, Zhou Wang returned the receipt to Anna. After thinking for a while, Zhou Wang said to the manager,