I know I know…..

Closest thing I have to that is this. Probably the same movement though.

I don't know if your social credit score went up or down 😂

🎶天上太阳红呀红彤彤哎

心中的太阳是毛泽东哎🎶

I’d sing this while wearing the watch. 🤣

Yeah yeah, commies are bad. History is history and getting offended about things should not grant anyone any extra authority. More importantly, how does the arm move?

Cultural or cruel? With all due respect this was maybe the greatest mass murderer that ever walked the Earth. I don’t think anybody would look kindly on somebody, wearing a watch with Adolf Hitler‘s face on it, and I don’t think it’s even questionable that this particular gentleman was responsible for more people‘s death. And his ideology isn’t much more easy to condone than Hitler’s. But cheers if you like the watch, I suppose……..

I get and respect you point, and I read your comment after making mine. However, sincerely, how would you react if that was Adolf Hitler’s face instead of Mao?

Is that from Mao era China?

Yes I totally understand and your point is absolutely valid. He was a cruel tyrant that did unspeakable things to his people. My family escaped communism in Cuba and although Castro didn’t have as much of a body count as Mao it’s still a tough subject to discuss. In my opinion I find having such a dictator on a silly watch demeaning to his legacy. Everyone’s entitled to their opinion.

I think it’s attached to the pallet fork making it go back and forth

I’m not sure, it’s hard to date these movements

Yep same here my family went through the holocaust and i would be pretty annoyed to see c someone wearing a watch with hitler on it!

I’m so sorry you and your family suffered under those circumstances! I can certainly see your point about being demeaning to his “legacy”. Unfortunately history seems to create the circumstances for dictitorial situations to occur. Democracy is fragile and I fear too often taken for granted.

I get enraged when I see people treating Churchill as something beyond a drunken corrupt wastrel that ruined the British empire and was unsurprisingly not reelected. But I keep it to myself or politely point out some facts. I don't become an emotional tyrant about it. There are several lionized US Presidents who I loathe for what they did to the country and the lives of all in it for generations. Some are on my currency. I deal with it. If I went around trying to squelch history, I'd hope people would put me in my place.

I actually sincerely agree with your opinion on Churchhill. History created an opportunity at the end of his disgraceful career to appear as a hero but he was certainly nothing of the sort.

But saying your opinion on a president or leader and putting a mass murderers face on a watch to wear around is completely diffrent

I imagine putting Hitler on a watch would be unacceptable, I wonder why Mao isn’t also as unacceptable. One of my gfs before I met my wife was northern Chinese and had lived under Mao and basically starved as a child under his regime . I would not touch this watch with a barge pole personally. Bad juju ….

I think there’s a new release of thi watch with Netanyahu face 😑

Who needs snoopy when you can have a cheeky little Saddam Hussein at 9..

I guess the point is that there are/were supporters of these political figures at the time. Folks who adored the ideologies, and wanted to commemorate their heros..

(PS. Not my watch and definitely not someone I think should have been commemorated)

If this post was intended as bait I applaud you because there's a bunch of people showing their whole *ss in the comments. My blocklist thanks you. Excellent trolling, no notes... But I suspect that may have been on accident...

On topic: Putting it on the wrist and wearing it is a no. It's a piece of propaganda. It depicts the image of the man, who we now know to be directly responsible for mass murder. Who has become the face for his doctrine which led to said mass murder. Instead of acknowledging this and calling it out as is, the language used reads the same as that used by people calling themselves WW2 aficionados but weirdly only collect pieces of the side that lost 🤔. Could this piece have a place in a well curated collection? Perhaps, but that's why we have museums.

Another thing which in my opinion is even more questionable. Which could have immense real life implications and I hope comes from a place of ignorance on your end. Is that it is absolutely NOT safe for any China based WCer to reply and give their honest opinion on this. (Government officials not withstanding).

Iirc it's a pretty common watch, that said, a watch like this one that's supposedly rare was Bush's version of a watch like this.

Churchill was a hero. He may have held views outside of the overton window of today (putting it mildly), but he was the leader that the free world needed at the time. Let’s not forget that the British government up to that point had let Hitler annex Austria and the Sudetenland, giving him a far stronger base from which to conquer westward. And the US only came into the war when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour. If Hitler hadn’t made that disastrous alliance with the Japanese, then half of Europe would be speaking German today and we’d all be wondering what happened to millions of Jews and ethnic slavs. As for ‘ruining’ the British empire, its dissolution was both a reflection of the changing times and the political manoeuvreings of the USA ensuring its own future hegemony.

They should have made his arms/hands move, like a Mickey Mouse watch. 😂

Now where is my Little Red Book?

Matching piece.

I guess if we are going by body count that we should keep W. Bush’s visage offa watch face too.

I dunno. One person’s monster is another’s liberator.

This watch should have all the numerals replaced with the word “gulag” in Cyrillic. 😜

I am no W apologist and I certainly won’t defend him on a watch forum but come on man. What he did with the “war on terror” isn’t in anyway close to what happened during the “cultural revolution” or “the Great Leap Forward” etc.

I take your point, and, I admit, my quip was a bit of cheap what-about-ism with W. and all. Still…

I guess that if OP is unironically wearing the visage of Mao on their wrist, I’m just gonna assume that they, like the current Chinese Commmunist Party, repudiate the cultural revolution and the great leaps forward, but, in the same breaths though, acknowledge the role Mao had in helping to eject imperial Japan, ending the warring states period, ending foreign intervention with Chinese affairs (remember the opium wars?) and founding the modern Chinese state under (very) arguable socialist principles.

I’d say, OP can go ahead and rock Mao all they want. Personally not for me but, who am I?

Except Mao didn’t eject the Japanese. He was engaged in a long civil war with the represented govetment at the time. They decided to pause the civil war when Japan invaded. Mao hid in the east for years. When the Japanese destroyed the government forces and Japan fell the war resumed with mao now able to defeat the beleaguered govement forces,retreated to Formosa, which now to this day is what we call the Taiwanese government.

Mao like Lennon was simply at the right place and the right time in history. Both had long odds still to do what they did. But they did, and the world is worse of for it.

I would buy it.