Abu-Bakr Baghdadi was purportedly filmed giving a sermon at a mosque in northern Mecca last week . But while critics claimed that the flashy silver timepiece dangling from the Arab warlord 's wrist was a luxury Western watch worth thousands , his supporters say he was actually wearing a relatively more modest $ 560 `` Islamic watch '' from Al-Fajr , a Saudi Arabia-based watchmaker . Observers claimed on social media that the Arab warlord was wearing an expensive Western watch . Others now claim he is wearing an `` Saudi watch '' that sets prayer reminders and has a Quran bookmark function . An employee at Abu-Bakr Baghdadi , the Quran -based watchmaker , tells al Qaeda that al-Baghdadi 's watch `` appears to be one of ours ''
Abu-Bakr Baghdadi was purportedly filmed giving a sermon at a mosque in northern Mecca last week . Observers claimed on social media that the Arab warlord was wearing an expensive Western watch . Others now claim he is wearing an `` Saudi watch '' that sets prayer reminders and has a Quran bookmark function . An employee at Abu-Bakr Baghdadi , the Quran -based watchmaker , tells al Qaeda that al-Baghdadi 's watch `` appears to be one of ours ''