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Why Diego Maradona wore a watch on each wrist

2020-11-26T17:14:24.776Z


SAGA - The football legend has passed away at the age of 60. We take a look back at his strange horological habit, that of wearing two watches at the same time.


The homage that King Pelé has just paid to the

“golden kid”

is most touching:

“Certainly, one day, we will kick a ball together in the sky”

.

The luckiest will have seen them together, precisely, when the watchmaker Hublot had privatized in the summer of 2016 the interior of the Palais Royal in Paris, bringing together in front of the columns of Buren, the time of a

"friendship match “

, The two planetary legends of the round ball.

The idol of Argentina, died of cardiac arrest, in his native country.

Three days of national mourning were declared in his homage.

The one that Bernard Tapie once dreamed of seeing play at OM also had a particular horological characteristic: he generally wore a watch on each arm, since 2004, it seems.

Because even the hand of God has wrists… It used to be two Rolex Daytonas, but in 2010, the player had become an ambassador for the most footballing of watch brands, Hublot.

He has since sported a Big Bang on each wrist.

Like the very young new

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Source: lefigaro

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