Rm and Tiffany Going at It Again
Hype pieces, eye-popping sale results and high-profile Hollywood wrap gifts made for a banner yr in the watch world in 2021, which saw Audemars Piguet bring out a character sentry with Marvel (the Black Panther Flying Tourbillon) and Patek Philippe debut a Tiffany Blueish Nautilus (chop-chop embraced by LeBron James and Jay-Z). Below, THR looks at the year that was in horology equally well as the glory sentinel collectors, from Kevin Hart and Marker Wahlberg to Tom Holland, who help drive interest in fine mechanical timepieces.
Audemars Piguet's Blackness Panther Watch
It seemed similar an unlikely collaboration: one of the Big Three of Swiss haute horology doing a graphic symbol watch. But it turned out to exist one of the about successful, expensive, painstakingly made and in-need character watches ever.
Back in March, Audemars Piguet announced a partnership with Marvel and a few weeks later revealed its limited-edition royal-and-black 42mm Majestic Oak Concept watch the Black Panther Flight Tourbillon with a live streaming consequence from Los Angeles hosted by Kevin Hart.
The watch, of which only 250 are being made, features a flying tourbillon, blackness ceramic bezel, sandblasted titanium case and a figure of the Black Panther white gold. It's hand-painted and engraved, requiring 30 hours of work by a craftsperson. Friend of the make Don Cheadle, AP administrator Serena Williams and LeBron James (who collaborated on a watch with AP in 2013) take all since worn the watch which sells for around $163,000, as has The Weeknd.
One of the watches has already been flipped; at an auction at Christie's in September, a Black Panther Flight Tourbillon netted effectually $480,000.
But that doesn't top the $5.2 million netted in April when AP sold a one-of-a-kind version with a white-gilt case engraved with symbols inspired past Wakanda in an sale to benefit ii charities, First Book and Ashoka. It remains the most expensive Audemars Piguet ever sold.
Other grapheme watches of note in 2022 included the Konstantin Chaykin 'Minions' picket, the Gérald Genta Arena Retro Mickey Mouse Disney, the (sold out) Tag Heuer 'Super Mario' connected watch, and the Bamford 'Joe Cool' timepiece.
Tiffany Blue Patek Sells at Auction For $six.v Meg
Patek Philippe, which is retiring the 5711 Nautilus, brought out its final iteration of the coveted stainless-steel timepiece in December, a version with a Tiffany Blue dial. Sold exclusively at the retailer and stamped Tiffany on the back, the $52,635 watch has already been worn past Jay-Z and LeBron James. It's limited to just 170 pieces, i of which sold at auction a few weeks ago for a whopping $6.5 meg, with gain benefiting The Nature Salvation.
Keanu Reeves Gifts Rolex Submariners to his John Wick Stunt Squad
In Oct, Keanu Reeves surprised his four-person stunt team on John Wick: Chapter 4 by giving each of them a Rolex Submariner engraved with a personal message. Jeremy Marinas — who received a sentry forth with Bruce Concepcion, Dave Camarillo and Li Qiang — called it the "best wrap gift ever" on his Instagram Story. The back of his Submariner read, "The John Wick Five" and "Jeremy Thank you Keanu JW4 2021."
Watches continue to exist items of choice when information technology comes to gifting and celebrating in the amusement and sports worlds. Concluding yr, Drake gave Lil Baby a Rolex Twenty-four hours-Date customized with a Chrome Hearts bracelet. Stormzy gifted rapper Dave a skeletonized rose-gilded Audemars Piguet Majestic Oak. After taking the crown for the most career three-pointers in the NBA, Steph Curry gifted his teammates Draymond Green, Andre Iguodala and Klay Thompson with Rolexes.
Mark Wahlberg and Kevin Hart: Hollywood's Two Biggest Watch Collectors
Not counting the music earth — where John Mayer, Jay-Z, Ed Sheeran, Drake and DJ Khaled rank as top-dog collectors — the entertainment industry's undeniable kings of flex in 2022 continued to be Mark Wahlberg and Kevin Hart. CelebWatchSpotter (@celebwatchspotter), the Instagram account that tracks famous wrists, named Wahlberg its "2021 Collection of the Year Winner" and spotted him wearing 6 Pateks (including the 12-complication Sky-Moon Tourbillon in rose gilded) and eight Rolexes (including four with factory-set diamonds) this past year.
CelebWatchSpotter meanwhile clocked Audemars partisan Kevin Hart rocking no less than xiii APs plus two Pateks (a platinum Perpetual Calendar Chronograph Grand Complication with salmon dial, Reference 5270P, and a rose-gold Split-Seconds Chronograph and Perpetual Calendar with black dial, Reference 5204/1R) and an water ice-bluish Rolex Daytona.
Tom Holland: Next-Gen Watch Collector
The Hollywood Reporter has had its heart on what's on Tom Holland'southward wrist for a while. Cutting to this November and GQ declared that the 25-year-former Spider-Man star just might be "the adjacent great glory watch collector."
At GQ's Men of the Year celebration in November, he wore a Cartier Tank with his brown velvet Dominate tuxedo jacket and trousers. "Unsurprisingly, playing Spider-Man has afforded Holland the chance to build a very major lookout drove. He's already racked up many of the classics, including a Patek Philippe Aquanaut, a special-edition Tag Heuer Monaco Titan, a Rolex Submariner "Cermit", and a Rolex Daytona," wrote GQ'due south Cam Wolf. At the 50.A. premiere of Spider-Man: No Way Home, he was also seen wearing a rose-gold Patek Philippe Perpetual Calendar 5940R. Subsequently in December, Holland flexed a second Aquanaut, one in stainless steel with a black strap, while at the same result his co-star and girlfriend Zendaya showed she's also a fan of Patek Philippe, wearing a rose-aureate Ladies Automated Nautilus.
Other celebrity spotter wearers on the radar last year included Simu Liu (seen in an IWC Portugieser Chronograph at the London screening of Shang-Chi and Jacob and Co. at the Met Gala); Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in a Cartier Santos; Nick Jonas in a Speedmaster Moonwatch in his Spaceman video; Instagram head Adam Mosseri (a Patek Nautilus, a Patek Aquanaut and a Rolex Daytona), Regé-Jean Page in a Longines Legend Diver; and Kumail Nanjiani, who got himself a Patek Nautilus to celebrate the release of Eternals.
Tyler, the Creator and Jay-Z Sport the Cartier Crash
In a year in which vintage Cartier watches became increasingly collectible, the watchmaker'south surrealist Cartier Crash picket plant a home on the wrists of Tyler, the Creator, who wore it in his Lumberjack video, and Jay-Z, who sported a 2022 skeletonized version in titanium. (Tyler, the Creator also has been seen in a Cartier Tank, Cartier Santos-Dumont and an unusual Cartier Obus Quadrant.)
Tyler, The Creator and Jay-Z followed in the footsteps of Kanye West who prominently began wearing a Cartier Crash a couple years agone, every bit well equally Kim Kardashian who acquired 1. Created in the swinging 1960s in Cartier's London workshop, the Crash — which was never produced in large numbers — reached new heights at sale in 2021, with i selling for effectually $885,000 at Sotheby's in Nov. It was only the tertiary Crash to hit the auction cake in almost a quarter of a century. "Cartier watches have been gaining a ton of popularity within the collecting community in recent years ," says Paul Altieri, CEO of Bob's Watches. "As a brand, Cartier has never not been popular. Withal, equally a watch manufacturer, Cartier primarily produces more dress-oriented models and this has resulted in them largely beingness disregarded during the years that everyone was solely focused on stainless steel sports watches. With that in mind, Cartier has a remarkable history equally a scout manufacturer and several of its models take unique and instantly recognizable designs that boast similar levels of mainstream recognition as many Rolex watches. Although Cartier watches have always been desirable, a maturing community of collectors and enthusiasts is wising up to the horological significance of the Cartier brand and wants to add together some of its models to their collections."
The Omega 007 Edition Hits the Large Screen
Nearly ii years after it was first revealed, Omega'south 42mm Seamaster Diver 300M 007 Edition finally got its big-screen debut, with the release, after much filibuster due to the COVID-19 pandemic, of the Daniel Craig-starring No Time To Die in October. Omega — longtime partner on the Bond films — worked closely with Craig and the filmmakers on the creation of the $9,200 sentinel, which features a titanium case and mesh bracelet, skeletonized easily, dual crowns, and a tropical brown dial and bezel. In the flick, information technology likewise functions as a spy gadget. (Watchonista gave a run-down of the Omega watches worn to the London premiere of the picture show by Craig, co-star Naomie Harris and Prince William.)
The Year's Best Event for Sentry Spotting: The Met Gala
In September, the Met Gala, sometimes called the Oscars of style, eclipsed the Oscars themselves as the all-time place to spot major watches on celebrities. "We were faced with an onslaught of heavy-hit timepieces," wrote Hodinkee. Among the sightings were Aldis Hodge in a Greubel Forsey Double Tourbillon xxx° Edition Historique; Taika Waititi in a stainless-steel Cartier Santos-Dumont; Jack Harlow in a Rolex Sky-Dweller; Finneas in a yellow-aureate Santos de Cartier with coral dial and Kit Harington in a white-gold Harry Winston Midnight 42mm Automatic.
Also seen: Simu Liu in a Jacob & Co. Astronomia Solar WG Zodiac Baguette; Justin Bieber in a yellow gold Rolex Daytona and Corey Hazard in a Reference 5208R diamond-set Patek Philippe Grand Complications with 719 parts, a minute repeater, monopusher chronograph and perpetual calendar.
Ignoring Diddy's opinions on Richard Mille — in Baronial he called the watches "not hot," adding that "Richard Mille is like a Timex or some shit like that" — Frank Bounding main wore a Richard Mille RM 37-01 Automatic Kiwi and Pharrell Williams accessorized with a Richard Mille RM 17-01 Tourbillon in red gold with baguette-cut diamonds.
Omega was represented by ambassador Kaia Gerber in a De Ville Prestige Dewdrop spotter and Jimmy Fallon in a vintage Omega Speedmaster Marking II from 1972. Hublot was seen on image architect Law Roach (a Big Bang Unico Rainbow King Gold) and Gamble the Rapper (a Classic Fusion King Gold Pavé). And NBA players Russell Westbrook and Steph Back-scratch were stand-outs in a diamond Patek Philippe Nautilus and an Audemars Piguet Regal Oak Dual Time, respectively.
The Watches at the 2022 Oscars
Lookout spotting at the Academy Awards has become an annual rite. At this year's (poorly rated) Oscars evidence, held at Los Angeles' Wedlock Station, skeletonized watches were the the trend.
Judas and the Black Messiah winner Daniel Kaluuya sported a Santos de Cartier Skeleton, The Audio of Metal nominee Riz Ahmed wore a Girard-Perregaux Laureato Skeleton, and Judas producer Charles D. King opted for a Piaget Polo Emperador Skeleton Tourbillon.
Other watches getting a plow on the red carpet included a xanthous-gold 41mm Omega Constellation Co-Centric Primary Chronometer (seen on Leslie Odom Jr.); a rose-gold Harry Winston Midnight Moon Stage (on Aldis Hodge); and a 39mm Omega Constellation (on Sacha Baron Cohen).
Martin Desmond Roe and Travon Free, the filmmakers behind the Oscar-winning short film Two Distant Strangers about police murders of Blackness Americans, opted for vintage pieces — a 1970s Audemars Piguet and a 2003 Patek Philippe Aquanaut, respectively — provided past Watches of Switzerland.
Other great events for lookout spotting in 2022 included the Golden Globes (Gear Patrol and GQ had the goods); the Cannes International Film Festival (Wachonista had a full report); and the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference (where Netflix'southward Ted Sarandos was spotted in a Glashütte Senator Observer and Jeffrey Katzenberg wore a Patek Philippe Nautilus).
Ryan Gosling Becomes Global Ambassador of TAG Heuer
In October, Ryan Gosling, who had never in his career done a brand partnership, arrived in an advertizing campaign for TAG Heuer's new Carrera Iii Hands timepiece drove. In the ads, the role player and new TAG Heuer global ambassador channeled the stuntman he played in Drive.
Standing the watchmaker's motor racing heritage, the new stainless-steel Carrera collection ($2,300 to $three,300) includes a 41mm Carrera Twin-Time with rhodium-plated indexes and the Carrera Twenty-four hours Date in 3 sizes, 29mm, 39mm and 41mm. "I appreciate its timeless pattern," said Gosling of the sleek new wristwatches, at a launch consequence in the Hollywood Hills. "I like clean and simple design more often than not. Growing up, nosotros lived on a pretty tight upkeep. I gravitated toward things that were simple and timeless and so I didn't have to remember nigh keeping upwards with trends."
In other celebrity ambassador news, THR connected with Julia Roberts virtually condign the face of Chopard'southward Happy Sport watch collection and Watchonista caught up Charlize Theron about her ongoing partnership as one of the faces of Breitling.
Presidential Watches: What Was on Joe Biden's Wrist
The New York Times faced liberal backlash back in January when information technology wrote a story that some felt tsk-tsked incoming president Joe Biden for wearing a "luxury" Rolex Datejust to his inauguration.
The timepiece was a Christmas gift from his wife Dr. Jill Biden. (Dwight Eisenhower was the first president to article of clothing a Rolex, likewise a Datejust.)
The interest in what's on Biden's wrist continued throughout the year. equally he became the first president to habiliment an Apple watch and the first president to wear an Omega Speedmaster (known famously as the Moonwatch as it was the offset lookout worn on Earth's satellite during the Apollo 11 mission).
Other watches that Biden has worn over the years include a Seiko 7T32-6M90 alert chronograph, a blue-dial Omega Seamaster Diver 300m, a Tissot T-Touch on and a Vulcain Cricket warning watch, which has also been worn by Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Lyndon B. Johnson.
Watches in Infinite: Jeff Bezos and Michael Strahan
When Amazon's Jeff Bezos went into space on the Blue Origin in July, he and the rest of the passengers wore a stainless-steel Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch, with a hesalite crystal and custom Velcro strap. Per Hodinkee, all of the watches were donated past Omega and personalized. "Bezos' Speedmaster (and ostensibly all the watches on board) had casebacks engraved with the wearer'southward proper noun, the flying number, and the plumage insignia of Blue Origin." In December, when GMA's Michael Strahan journeyed into space aboard Blueish Origin's New Shepard, he wore a white-gilded Rolex GMT-Principal Ii with a dial made out of a cloth that was quite fitting for the occasion: meteorite. And in September, when SpaceX's Inspiration4 rocketed into infinite with an all-civilian coiffure, including Shift4 Payments CEO Jared Isaacman, they all wore unique white ceramic IWC Pilot's Watch Chronograph Edition Inspiration4 timepieces with the mission'south logo on the dial; the watches were later auctioned to raise money for St. Jude.
Francis Ford Coppola Collaboration Sells for Well-nigh $five One thousand thousand
Independent watchmaker F.P. Journe collaborated with director Francis Ford Coppola on a i-of-a-kind creation that sold for around $4.9 million in November at But Lookout man, the biennial charity timepiece auction that raises funds for research into Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The F.P. Journe x Francis Ford Coppola FFC Blue is an exceptional piece that was sparked from a query the director put to founder François-Paul Journe a few years back. (The two had met after Coppola'southward wife Eleanor gifted him an F.P. Journe timepiece.) Coppola's thought was: had anyone ever fabricated a watch where one human paw on a dial tells the fourth dimension by counting numbers? Journe ran with it and created a timepiece featuring a large central blued manus with 5 mobile fingers that bespeak and retract. It features a tantalum case with a mechanism in rose gilt. The design of the fingers was inspired by a mechanical hand that was created centuries ago by Ambroise Paré, a 16th-century French physician who some historians consider the father of modern surgery. "I think his watches are little works of art," Coppola told Hodinkee of Journe'south work. "I've e'er had an admiration for art and scientific ingenuity. F.P. Journe watches seem to me to be masterpieces of design and engineering."
Jennifer Aniston's Friends Reunion Rolex
Dorsum in May, when the beloved cast of Friends gathered for the much-anticipated reunion special on HBO Max, Jennifer Aniston wore a classic Rolex Solar day-Date which features a President bracelet. Hodinkee believes information technology was a vintage model due to its older-style clasp and liked the unconventional manner she wore it: over her sleeve. "What panache! Menswear icon (and former head of Fiat) Gianni Agnelli famously wore his lookout this manner, and it looks great on Aniston, too," wrote Hodinkee'due south Danny Milton.
The Debut of the Jimmy Chin Panerai
In July, Panerai unveiled two new express-edition watches in honor of their ambassador, Jimmy Mentum, the professional climber, lensman and director (forth with his wife Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi) of Oscar-winning documentary Free Solo. The timepieces are the 47mm Submersible Chrono Flyback Jimmy Mentum Edition (PAM01207, priced at $19,400) and the 47mm titanium-and-black-DLC Submersible Chrono Flyback Jimmy Chin Experience Edition (PAM01208) with a shaded grey dial. The latter, priced at $43,200 and limited to xiv pieces, included an opportunity to travel to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for a multi-day experience where buyers could hang with Mentum himself.
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, The Hollywood Reporter may receive an affiliate commission. Notation that prices and deals are accurate as of press time but may exist subject to change.
lockhartchemb1995.blogspot.com
Source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/style/most-talked-about-watches-and-hollywood-timepiece-collectors-of-2021-1235069982/
0 Response to "Rm and Tiffany Going at It Again"
ارسال یک نظر