But Patriarch Kirill was unfazed, admitting he owned the Breguet timepiece, but kept it in its box. Expensive watches, he said, were not part of his official attire. The mysterious leader wields ...

This time, it's a $16,000 watch that Patriarch Kirill was spotted wearing in a photograph flagged by a Kremlin-critical news site. Kirill's taste for wrist bling is not a major scandal for the ...

“Patriarch Kirill has made multiple public statements ... In 2012, Russian bloggers spotted Kirill wearing a $30,000 Breguet watch in an interview — a luxury that in theory was above his ...

Patriarch Kirill’s father and grandfather ... and in another photo he was shown wearing a watch worth between €20,000 and €25,000 that had been poorly blurred out,” says Nivière.

An opulent watch — a source of public embarrassment — disappeared from the wrist of Kirill I, patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, in a doctored photo. The Russian Orthodox Church said it ...