“There are also 400 million dollars”… Choo Shin-soo presents a luxury watch for juniors at 20 million won

Choo Shin-soo (39), who was from the US professional baseball major leaguer and joined the Korean professional baseball SSG Landers, presents an expensive luxury watch worth over 20 million won to Lee Tae-yang (31), who gave up his uniform number.

Choo Shin-soo delivered the watch to Lee Tae-yang, saying, “Thank you for giving up your uniform number 17” at a meeting ceremony held on the ground after a practice match with the Lotte Giants in the KBO League of Professional Baseball held at Sajik Stadium in Busan on the 11th.

The watch that Choo Shin-soo presented to Lee Tae-yang is Roger De V’s Excalibur Essential (45mm) model, well known as a Swiss luxury watch brand. The consumer price is 21.7 million won, and currently there is only one in stock in Korea.

The Excalibur series is an expensive luxury watch, and there are products worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Actually, according to the website of Rodby, the Excalibur Jewelry Skeleton Double Flying Trubillon costs 435.5 million won, and the article of the Excalibur Roundtable amounts to 370 million won. The Excalibur Double Flying Trubillon also costs 358 million won.

Chu, who revealed that he had been a player with number 17 since elementary school, said, “It was a very attached number, but I was grateful that Taeyang Lee first conveyed his intention to give concessions to the club,” he said. “The watch was prepared in the United States.”

Lee Taeyang received good energy from Choo through the club, saying, “I don’t know if it’s okay to receive such an expensive gift.” I will try to make a big success this year,” he replied.

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