Wear the World's Oldest Whiskey on Your Wrists

Wealth Solutions, as part of its latest of providing luxury spirit-watches, has revealed its newest addition in collaboration with Swiss watch brand – Louis Moinet. They will be using the world’s oldest whisky discovered so far, a bottle of Old Vatted Glenlivet 1862. This bottle was sourced from Sukhinder Singh, a rare spirits collector and owner of The Whisky Exchange.

The bottle was opened in front of a Notary Public last week in Warsaw, Poland. The opening ceremony was attended by Charles MacLean, whisky expert and Master of the Quaich; Edward Bates, Bureau National Interprofessionnel du Cognac educator; Jean-Marie Schaller, founder and creator of Louis Moinet; Michal Kowalski, deputy president of Wealth Solutions; and Lukasz Baranowski, deputy president of Wealth Solutions.

Previous editions of the ‘Spirit Watches’ include the Cognac Watch, which contains a drop of what claims to be the world’s oldest Cognac - the Gautier 1762. And the Rum Watch, which contains the world’s oldest rum – the Harewood 1780.

There will be 50 watches, 40 of which will have steel cases, priced at £14,625 each and 10 with red gold cases, priced at /£37,375 each. All of these watches will contain a drop of the Old Vatted Glenlivet 1862, currently recognized to be the oldest whisky in the world.

The Whisky Watch will be launched on 8 April.

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https://scotchwhisky.com/magazine/latest-news/13138/world-s-oldest-scotch-in-new-whisky-watch/

https://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2017/03/bottle-of-worlds-oldest-whisky-opened/

https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2017/03/worlds-oldest-whisky-opened/

Whisky News source date:

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

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