Pursuits
Former Swiss Billionaire in Crisis to Sell Trophy Aston Martin
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Europe’s crisis is imposing fiscal discipline on working households, spendthrift governments -- and the occasional billionaire.
Thomas Straumann, who until last year owned an Aston Martin DB5 used to promote the 1965 James Bond movie Thunderball, a majority stake in luxury watchmaker H. Moser & Cie. and a hotel in the Alpine resort of Gstaad, Switzerland, was forced to let go of a few of his favorite things.