Bling balls and platinum puttering
With platinum challenging the $1500/oz level and the drop in demand for jewelery in Japan, where the number of weddings continues to approach ziltch, the Platinum Guild International has launched some flashy schemes to lift demand here in Japan’s “Aging Society” such as…
According to Reuters, the Guild, an industry-funded organisation, has:
“…launched a new programme in Japan this year called Thanks Days Platinum… targeting retiring male Japanese baby boomers…more…
The result of this programme is this diamond-encrusted platinum golf ball and putter made by Japanese jeweler Nagahori. The platinum golf putter head is studded with total 22 ct of white and pink diamonds and the matching bling ball has 25 ct of diamonds enveloping its platinum sphere.
I think it would be the perfect stocking stuffer for Christmas, ha, ha.
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