UNHAPPY HOUR!
The married watch dealer from Beverly Hills whose $590,000 timepiece was stolen by two hookers says he was so wasted that he can’t recall picking up the women before the caper in his swank Midtown hotel suite.
“The truth is, I was drunk. I don’t remember,” a shamefaced Steven Rostovsky told The Post, which exclusively reported the ripoff.
Rostovsky, whose left wrist was noticeably bare, complained that the humiliating incident was “being blown out of proportion, honestly.”
The father of three — two young adults and a teen — also claimed to be at a loss for words over his fleecing by the working girls he brought back to his room from a strip club.
“I mean, I’m on the front page of the New York Post,” he said Wednesday. “You spoke to my wife. You put it on the front page. I don’t know what to say to you.”
Before the brief interview, Rostovsky was using his iPhone to keep track of time as he sat in a furcovered chair and glumly picked at a $14 fruit plate in the Grand Salon of the swank Baccarat Hotel.
His 12thfloor suite was the scene of the crime in which he reported losing a limitededition Greubel Forsey Double Tourbillon 30degree Technique watch and $6,000 in cash.
Rostovsky, whose company has an LA office near famed Rodeo Drive, posted five photos on his sincelocked Instagram page that fit the descrip ttion of his missing ticker.
He also gushed praise for tthe rare wristwatch, writing last year: “I waited 9 months for this one and it was well worth it!”
Sources have said Rostovsky told cops that he and the hookers — one white, the other black — went to his room early Monday after partying at the Sapphire Gentlemen’s Club.
The club’s lawyer has said that neither woman was a dancer or worker there and that surveillance video showed them walking in with Rostovsky.
While Rostovsky and one woman romped in the bedroom, the other woman allegedly grabbed his pricey watch and cash from the safe, where he had stashed the valuables but neglected to lock them up. Afterward, the white woman told Rostovsky she was going to walk her friend downstairs — but they both split in a lightcolored BMW convertible, sources said.
Cops got images of the sticky fingered gals from surveillance video and DNA from drinking glasses in the room but were still working to ID the women, sources said.
Rostovsky’s wife, Janine — who was in the dark about the theft until being informed by The Post on Tuesday — was nowhere to be seen at the couple’ s sprawling, $2.8 million home in Bel Air. She didn’t return a phone message.