David Schwimmer can tell time on his own, thank you very much.

His publicist announced Friday that the actor was awarded $400,000 in a defamation suit brought against a former celebrity fundraiser who told the National Enquirer that the Friends star requested two Rolex watches in exchange for appearing at an event.

Schwimmer sued Aaron Tonken in October 2004 for saying that the actor wanted two of the timepieces, worth a total of $26,000, and that he had an invoice to prove that Schwimmer received the gift before showing up. It turned out that Tonken had purchased two watches, but they were for himself and a supposed business partner, whose credit card he used to make the transaction.

In his lawsuit, Schwimmer called Tonken a scheming pathological liar" and accused him of being "bent on castigating Schwimmer and other celebrities by concocting bogus stories...in an effort to justify [his] own deceit and lies."

Source: E!

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