Kobold's Golfing Anecdotes
While Kobold have yet to make a watch exclusively for the ardent golfer, the company does have links with the game, as founder Michael Kobold explains: “One day, a man called my office from Beijing and placed an unusual order. 'I want the watch Bill Clinton wears,' he said. 'I just played golf with him yesterday and I want the watch he wore. He told me to call you.' After explaining that the president owns four Kobolds, the caller ordered all of the models and rang off.”
A few years ago," continued Kobold, "we asked the bad boy of golf, John Daly, if we could auction his Kobold for a children’s charity. He agreed and so we asked him to send along a picture of him and his watch. When we received it, we discovered that the picture was taken in the poor light of a Las Vegas casino, a row of slot machines standing in the background. John was holding a half-empty glass of Scotch and a lit cigar in one hand and the watch in the other. All that was missing was a scantily-clad stripper and we would have censored the picture and called off the auction. Instead, his watch fetched bids that were far higher than is list price.”
KOBOLD is represented in Hong Kong by SinoGo. For more information, contact info@sinogo; www.sinogo.com
