Welcome to Clock of the weekwhere we’ll track the rarest, wildest and most coveted watches spotted on celebrities.
Steph Curry has truly become a watch collector throughout his career. And so, if there’s a thin, almost imperceptible layer of silver to a shoulder injury that’s going to keep him from three-point bombing for a few weeks, it’s that he should keep bringing the fireworks up. bench. The evidence? He reappeared last week when he was named Sports IllustratedAthlete of the Year, wearing a yellow gold Rolex Day-Date II to the event.
While the Day-Date II didn’t necessarily resonate with a wider audience — Rolex only produced the model for seven years, from 2008 to 2015 — it does seem to have found a following in the NBA. . Damian Lillard also owns a version of day-day is more confusing than this. The original Day-Date has has been set itself is one of the most popular watches among NBA players, but there is an easy to understand explanation for why this short-lived model might be of interest to the public. the likes of Curry and Lillard: at 41 mm, the Day-Date II is specially made for larger wrists.
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Wearing a Rolex to celebrate life’s greatest achievements seems to be a tradition in the Curry family. When Steph won the NBA Finals this June, a celebration filled with Rolex followed. Dell’s father is wear detection a Rolex GMT with a dark blue “Batman” bezel, while his wife Ayesha wears a Rolex Deepsea Sea-Dweller. (Brother Seth also wear a GMT in the red and blue “Coke” colorway.) Steph continues the trend with this Day-Date.
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Panthère de Cartier by Zoe Saldana
These wrap watches started appearing on the wrists of celebrities more often. Anne Hathaway recently scrolled Bulgari’s Serpenti around her. Now, while promoting the new one Avatar, Saldana wears what looks like a Panthère de Cartier with three layers of upholstery. If you sign up arrive GQ new watch newsletter Box + Papers, you will read all about a special type of product for watches: tie bars, money clips, letter openers and lighters that used to be integrated with watches. Like those pieces, these Serpentis and Panthères are hybrids, more of a bracelet than a watch.
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Tag Heuer Formula 1 by Simu Liu
Credits when due: Tag Heuer looks for every possible way to lean on its auto racing roots. Earlier this year, the brand brokered a partnership with Porsche about the pair’s common connection to the infamous Carrera race from the ’50s.. Tag then follow that with a Mario Kart collaboration that has attracted people to be more comfortable with virtual driving. Meanwhile, Liu is wearing a version of the Formula 1 model, a nod to Tag’s longtime sponsored racing teams. Team Ferrari wears Heuer shirt—before merging with Tag—during the 70s.
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Didier Deschamps’ Hublot Big Bang Tourbillon Sapphire
No one works with sapphire more wonderfully than Hublot. The brand uses materials to make matte clock in purple syrup and bright orange. But the watch world has been dominated by color lately, so France coach Deschamps is making headlines: he used Hublot’s colorless Big Bang for his team’s match against Ma- rock. Sunday’s showdown between France and Argentina will also highlight the stylistic differences between the coaches. While Deschamps wears ostentatious outfits like this Big Bang, Argentina’s Lionel Scaloni sticks with simple Apple Watch.
