Not Rolex, not Cartier … guess what’s China central bank chief’s watch of choice?
His spiffy timepiece worn during 1.5-hour press conference stirs a flood of comments online
While the 1.5 hour morning press conference by the head of China’s central bank may not have moved the financial markets, his taste for timepieces spurred a flurry of comments on social media.
Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People’s Bank of China, sported what looked all the world like an Apple Watch on his wrist while taking journalists’ questions on the sidelines of China’s annual congressional sessions in Beijing.
An Apple China employee posted two photos of Zhou wearing the watch on his WeChat Moments soon after the news conference began.
“Apple Watch Nike+, the choice of China’s most ‘reliable’ man – China’s central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan. What are you waiting for?” the employee wrote ion WeChat, China’s largest social media platform with more than 800 million monthly users run, by Shenzhen-based Tencent Holdings.
WikiLeaks this week released documents and files said to be from the US Central Intelligence Agency’s Centre for Cyber Intelligence. The group said the CIA had developed ways to hack devices from Apple iPhones to handsets using Google’s Android operating system to Samsung “smart” televisions to monitor conversations and messages.
