Whereas Tom Brady could also be king of fashionable watch accumulating round right here, it’s trying like Brad Pitt may quickly be topped monarch of classic.

Simply this week, the American actor and producer was seen on the One Love premier—his manufacturing firm, Plan B, labored on the Bob Marley-themed movie—in a “watch man” favourite, the Patek Philippe reference 2526. A far cry from the zeitgeist-y Nautilus, this can be a time-only costume watch from the Fifties with each an automated motion and a shocking enamel dial. It’s not a reference usually seen on the wrists of celebrities, given its dressier design, its relative obscurity exterior horological circles, and the recognition of the ever-present “luxurious sports activities watch.”

Starting within the Fifties, Patek produced a run of ref. 2526 in a number of dial variants—steel, black, diamond, and so forth. However probably the most beloved of all are certainly the enamel variants made by Stern Frères, an organization owned by the identical household that bought a controlling stake in Patek itself again within the Thirties. John Reardon, proprietor of Collectability.com and one of many foremost authorities on Patek accumulating, estimates that between solely 500 to 600 examples of those enamel-dial 2526s had been made between 1953 and 1960.

They’re extraordinarily fragile, and never many have survived in good situation. And whereas a 31mm Calatrava reference 96—a hand-wound, prototypical costume watch from the maison—may promote for round $10,000+ at this time, a bigger 36mm 2526 with an enamel dial, powered by the automated calibre 12-600AT, may promote for $60,000-plus. (If it’s double-signed, or occurred to belong to somebody with the final title “Warhol,” it will hammer for considerably extra at public sale.)

Superbly sized and bearing Patek’s first automated motion, the 2526 is a major watch, or no less than for watch nerds. Seeing one on the wrist of Brad Pitt despatched the horological web right into a frenzy, as soon as they recognized it. Pitt wore his on a bracelet that threw many consultants for a loop: “I noticed this on IG yesterday and [am] positive [it] is a 2526! Nonetheless I’m unable to determine the bracelet….[it’s] not like some other 2526 bracelet I’ve seen earlier than and I can not affirm whether or not or not it’s a Patek bracelet,” mentioned Reardon. (Sure of those references shipped on a brick-style bracelet in matching steel, which doesn’t look like what Pitt is carrying.)

This marks the second time that Pitt’s been noticed carrying a severe (if deep-cut) “watch man” watch, the primary being a stainless metal model of the Vacheron Constantin 222, which he appeared to accumulate not lengthy after the model re-released that mannequin at Watches & Wonders in early 2022. (Pitt additionally purchased the gold reissue.) Perhaps he’s been bitten with the classic watch bug, or possibly his stylist reads Hodinkee? Both method, a complete Palexpo Heart’s value of horology nerds are banging their desks, chanting, “WE ACCEPT YOU, ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!”

Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s Rolex Cosmograph Daytona ref. 116519LN

Former footballer Zlatan Ibrahimovic is aware of his method round an awesome watch. Only in the near past he was noticed rocking the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar Openworked “Cactus Jack,” a bit designed in live performance with Travis Scott. This time, he was seen at The 2024 Italian Track Competition in black tie and a Rolex Cosmograph Daytona ref. 116519LN, a white-gold variant of the well-known chronograph with a meteorite dial. Rolex has since up to date this reference with the marginally newer 126519LN, however when you’re so inclined, you’ll find one floating across the secondary marketplace for roughly $100K. (For a extra reasonably priced homage to Ibrahimovic, attempt the MoonSwatch.)

Jeffrey Wright’s Omega Speedmaster

Showing on Seth Meyers this previous week, actor Jeffrey Wright wore an Omega Seamaster Diver 300 in black with an identical black wave dial and a black rubber strap. An evolution of the model’s basic dive watch, the Seamaster Diver 300 is an analogous variant to that worn by Brosnan-era James Bond, although this model measures a hefty 43.5mm in ceramic and Grade 5 titanium, lending it a stealthy, high-tech look. Powered by an automated OMEGA Grasp Chronometer Calibre 8806 motion, it’s a watch that regarded good with Wright’s monochromatic getup of black swimsuit and shirt; what’s extra, it served as a intelligent nod to his cinematic previous as a suave CIA agent and one-time Bond confidant.Colin Jost’s Gucci Grip

Colin Jost’s Gucci Grip

The Weekend Replace host went with, of all issues, a Gucci Grip for his newest SNL look. There’s one thing eminently respectable a couple of man who may afford to put on any Patek he so needs opting as a substitute for a sub-$1,000 style watch with an offbeat “digital” show and a quartz motion, and displaying it off on nationwide tv as he lays into each Donald Trump and Joe Biden. The one miss? Sarah Sherman appeared as an 18-year-old, dressed identically to Jost, determined to reconnect to her father. We couldn’t have sourced this lady an identical Gucci Grip?! SNL prop division, get your shit collectively!