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13 Pateks...wow. Let's revisit the morality of buying a luxury watch. It played so well last time. Who knows what the man's 13 Pateks cost, so let's say £30k each, or £490k total. And if it costs $4,500 or £3,408 to prevent one death from malaria https://www.givewell.org/cost-to-save-a-life, then 13 Pateks are worth 143 people.
Or you could spend the money on 8 Javelin missiles for Ukraine. Apparently they have a 93% success rate https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/how-small-ukraine-force-is-killing-russian-tanks-with-us-javelin-missiles-2803289, so you'd destroy seven T-72 tanks, killing all the crews (21 people) and perhaps 2 soldiers per tank standing nearby (14 more, total 35.) No figures are available for how many Ukrainians this might save.
No doubt the 13 Patek fellow gives loads to charity, and so on.