China’s leading online portal has shut down the microblog of a watch enthusiast who rose to prominence pointing out the excesses of Communist party officials by identifying and valuing their expensive watches.
Daniel Wu, a long-time timepiece aficionado, began his accidental crusade when he noticed in a news photograph of the deadly high-speed rail crash in July that Sheng Guangzu, the railway minister, appeared to be wearing a Rolex Oyster Perpetual, which retails for Rmb70,000 ($11,000) in China.
“I did a simple search for minister Sheng and was astonished to find him wearing many more watches,” Mr Wu told the Financial Times.
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