Till this time final month, Mark Zuckerberg had by no means been noticed in a elaborate wrist. That is an unlikely enjoyable reality given his huge fortune. Nonetheless, his attendance on the marriage ceremony of Indian businessman Anant Ambani modified all that. In a video from this previous July, Zuckerberg and his spouse, Priscilla Chan, could be seen admiring Ambani’s watch, a Richard Mille RM 30-01. The sight seemingly prompted a software program replace for Zuck, one the place watches are actually a characteristic and never a bug. The craze began with a Patek Philippe ref. 5236P perpetual calendar and his grails have solely gotten holier from there. Previously month alone, he is been noticed with 5 extraordinarily high-end timepieces.
Zuck was simply noticed on the Large If True podcast rocking an F.P. Journe Chronomètre Souverain ‘Havana’ in platinum. Whereas it doesn’t essentially symbolize the ultra-complicated meat on the high-end impartial bone, that is however one of the crucial spectacular and delightful gown watches on the earth—and most positively not typical first-time watch-buyer fare. Displaying the time and energy reserve, it’s powered by a hand-made, hand-wound motion and gained the Males’s Watch Prize on the 2005 GPHG. It was so emblematic of grasp watchmaker François-Paul Journe’s watchmaking ethos that he even gifted one to his mentor George Daniels in 2010.
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However you realize what does symbolize beating the ultimate horological boss? The second Journe on this younger assortment: the Centigraphe Sport Aluminium. Zuck strapped this child on at a latest Meta occasion, and it didn’t take lengthy earlier than the watch world’s collective eyes popped out of its head. Housed in a hanging aluminum alloy case—a uncommon materials in up to date watchmaking—it options subdials through which the fingers mark time in a whole lot of a second, 20 seconds, and 10 minutes. Not like a standard chronograph, it’s managed by a rocker swap at 10 o’clock as a substitute of conventional pushers. That is the kind of timepiece that usually takes years to find, not to mention personal. Zuck, alternatively, discovered horology on Monday and F.P. Journe by Wednesday. That was fast!
Then there’s the Jaeger-LeCoultre Grasp Extremely Skinny Kingsman Knife Watch that he wore just lately. This one is kind of a sleeper hit—you’re both a deep Matthew Vaughn fan, or a deep JLC fan, or else you actually just like the Kingsman franchise. Both approach, it’s an oddball alternative for a brand new watch man, however a tremendously cool watch: Launched in live performance with The King’s Man in 2020, it incorporates a 12 o’clock crown with a bow in imitation of a pocket watch courting to 1907. This, mixed with a flat, 4.25mm-tall case, a good-looking white dial with blued metal feuille fingers, and the hand-wound Calibre 849, makes for a compelling (if quirky) package deal.
And we haven’t even spoke in regards to the De Bethune DB25 Starry Varius but. Housed in a 42mm rose gold case with hollowed, built-in lugs, it incorporates a distinctive dial personalized to the wearer’s style that shows the evening sky as seen from a location of 1’s selecting. The kind of timepiece you purchase after you’ve learn each final article on HODINKEE, it’s proof optimistic that we’re firstly of what can solely be a protracted and vital journey into the guts of the Swiss Jura.
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ASAP Rocky’s Piaget Polo 7131
A$AP Rocky was noticed on the Bottega Veneta present in Paris this week in a classic Piaget Polo ref. 7131, a 25mm-wide, precious-metal, built-in bracelet piece with a stunning design and a quartz motion. Piaget has been on an absolute tear this yr. All method of celebrities have wornits classic items and you may’t open Instagram with out discovering one of many model’s stone-dial items. Additional factors to ASAP Rocky for rocking one with an incredible swimsuit. Piaget started its life as a motion producer earlier than starting to focus on ultra-thin watches within the mid-Twentieth century. Now, the maison’s Altiplano assortment is blowing minds with ever-thinner development and unbelievable issues.
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Jacob Elordi’s Cartier Tank
Elordi has proven loads of like to Cartier over the previous few years, rocking a yellow-gold Normale to the Priscilla premier and a black-dialed Tank Louis Cartier on SNL. His watch was within the firm of greatness as he wore it whereas sitting subsequent to the aforementioned Rocky and his Piaget. Elordi’s contribution to this pairing was yet one more model of the Tank in yellow gold. It seems, given the size of the case and what appears like a date window at 6 o’clock, to be an older Tank Solo, which was changed in 2021 by the Tank Should line…which itself reintroduced an outdated entry-level model of the Tank first launched within the Nineteen Seventies. The beauty of the Tank, nevertheless, is that in just about any configuration, it’s merely a killer watch.
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Anya Taylor-Pleasure’s Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso One Monoface
A Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso is rarely a nasty concept, particularly if its case is subtly encrusted in diamonds and it comes on a cool chrome steel bracelet. Anya Taylor-Pleasure was noticed sporting one throughout Paris Vogue Week that appears like the proper embodiment of 2024 watch tradition: The Reverso One Monoface measures simply 20mm large and incorporates a sunburst guilloché dial held inside a chrome steel case. Quartz powered and kitted out with 26 valuable stones, it’s technically a part of the model’s Women’ assortment—however we wouldn’t be stunned to see it on the wrist of sure male celebs who typically flaunt the horological gender norms.
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Will Ferrell’s Oris Divers Sixty-5 Date and Aquis ‘Style of Summer time’ Watermelon Version
Funniest man within the room Will Ferrell is a watch man—he’s only a watch man the way in which solely an SNL alum is usually a watch man. You see, along with funky Timexes and classic Omega Speedmasters, Ferrell is deeply into Oris, an impartial Swiss model that’s been making superior instrument watches since 1904. However the beauty of Oris watches is their relative affordability. Working example: The Divers Sixty-5 Date 40.00 in Forest Inexperienced that Ferrell wore this week lists for $2,700. The Aquis ‘Style of Summer time’ Watermelon Version that he confirmed off only a few days later retailed for a similar. Contemplating the sturdy construct high quality, wonderful appears, Swiss-made actions, and impartial spirit infused into Oris’s watches, we’d say that’s greater than honest.
