This Thursday, March 23, in Touche pas à mon poste, the columnists discussed the famous watch worn by Emmanuel Macron the day before during his television interview. While the accessory caused debate because of its price, Matthieu Delormeau flew to the rescue of the president.
How much did the watch worn by Emmanuel Macron on March 22 during his television interview really cost? The question began to agitate netizens as the president discreetly removed the latter from his wrist, about ten minutes into the interview. Very quickly, the craziest rumors have arrived on the Web, with some accounts claiming the watch in question cost €80,000. “The president of the ultra-rich (removed) discreetly the €80,000 watch paid with your pensions during the interview“, launches a user. “He wears an FP Journe, it’s worth 80,000 bullets (…) he said to himself, maybe it’s not terrible to have a watch at 80,000 in front of toothless people“, writes another. It was enough to further stir up the anger of the public, in an already palpable climate of tension.
Very quickly, the Elysée reacted by explaining that Emmanuel Macron had taken off his watch “because he had just banged her hard against the table“, specifying that the latter was in fact “a Bell and Ross V1-92 Blue Steel model sold 2400 euro by the manufacturer“. We are therefore a long way from the dizzying price advanced by some Internet users. Anyway, such an amount would probably not have shocked Matthieu Delormeau, according to his remarks in TPMP this Thursday.
Matthieu Delormeau: “You are making an enemy of every rich person!”
“A president takes care of representing a country. He must, when he goes outside, have a very nice made-to-measure suit, a nice watch (…) I would be delighted if my President of the Republic had a very nice watch, perhaps French, at 100 000 euros. (…) You are making every rich person an enemy, stop with that!“, got angry the columnist, facing his dumbfounded colleagues. “When the French are on the street, when there is a problem with purchasing power, when people are starving, you can’t have a president who is supposed to represent you with a 100,000 euro watch!“, retorted Jean-Michel Maire.