Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has re­spond­ed to crit­ics who be­lieve a watch he wore at Tues­day’s Eman­ci­pa­tion Day cel­e­bra­tions cost over $1 mil­lion and have called for an In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion probe.

Row­ley post­ed to his Face­book page yes­ter­day, “Glad to see that you’ll are so in­ter­est­ed in my Tsar Bom­ba watch! BTW I see that this item has al­so sparked con­ver­sa­tions about who gets a tax-free salary. All min­is­ters and Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment pay tax­es on their in­come. I pay the full amount of tax­es on my salary.”

Com­men­ta­tors on so­cial me­dia be­lieved it was a Richard Mille watch that costs around US$360,000

They want­ed to know if the Prime Min­is­ter spent his own mon­ey or re­ceived it as a gift.

They said if it was in fact a gift, he should have re­ferred it to the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion.

The Tsar Bom­ba costs about US$399 on Ama­zon.

Be­fore he had re­spond­ed on so­cial me­dia, Guardian Me­dia sent the Prime Min­is­ter a screen shot of one of the com­ments on so­cial me­dia ask­ing him to pro­vide a re­ceipt if he did in fact pur­chase the watch. That same post asked if it was a gift and if he had de­clared it to the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion.

The Prime Min­is­ter re­spond­ed hours af­ter in the Face­book post say­ing, “I’m sor­ry to dis­ap­point, at least I could af­ford a US$300 watch. Those who tief (sic) out the Trea­sury will nev­er wear that.”