A$AP Rocky Wore a Grenade-Shaped Timepiece Around His Neck

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Rihanna wearing a Jacob & Co. watch as a choker remains the coolest watch moment of the year. Nobody understands that higher than her maybe-husband A$AP Rocky, who had a front-row seat to her horological innovation. Rocky, clearly impressed by that transfer lately discovered his personal timepiece to put on round his neck. The rapper donned an explosive piece of bijou, the AMNY x L’Epée 1839 Exo Grenade, within the video for his new music “RIOT (Rowdy Pipe’n).”

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The piece is a collaboration between superstar jeweler Alex Moss and historic, fanciful clockmakers L’Epée 1839. It’s a completely outrageous time-telling gadget: the grenade-shaped base is made out of aluminum after which set with 34.27 carats of diamonds. The clock took three entire years to supply, in response to Moss’s website.

The actual breakthrough right here isn’t that it’s worn across the neck—I gained’t abide Taste Flav erasure—however the completely distinctive form, based mostly on a WWII-era MKII grenade. The pin is cleverly used as a time-setting gadget right here.

Moss and L’Epée 1839 declare there’s a deeper that means behind the Exo Grenade. The clock is “the personification of the posh of time and the way it may be taken from you at any second,” in response to a press launch from AMNY. “Winding this piece finally forces you to concentrate on the second, to cherish it, as a result of proper now’s the one factor that’s really assured in life.” Some folks use the Headspace app for that sort of readability, others want a $150,000 bomb-shaped, diamond-covered clock. The latter sounds much more enjoyable.

Lionel Messi’s Patek Philippe Aquanaut

Messi seemingly got here to the USA to do two issues: rating a bunch of targets and put on killer watches. He’s already put three balls at the back of the online, and has strapped on a trio of dream Patek Philippes to match. For his first recreation with Inter Miami, La Pulga arrived on the enviornment carrying Patek’s sporty Aquanaut with a traffic-cone orange band. This adopted the different Aquanaut—from the brand’s ladies’ collection, featuring a rainbow of diamonds—which he wore throughout his introductory press convention. After which there was a small-scale kerfuffle this week when a couple of watch spotting accounts thought that Messi was carrying a customized purple-dial one-of-one Nautilus. That may have been big! Sadly, it was merely a trick of the sunshine, and accounts like @InsaneLuxuryLife needed to issue a retraction. “We needed to make clear it as a result of we’re not used to creating this type of mistake particularly on such vital watches.” Drama! Whereas it wasn’t a customized purple watch, it’s nonetheless a killer: the new white-gold Nautilus that replaced the beloved 5711.

Christopher Nolan’s Hamilton Khaki Discipline “Murph”

Chris Nolan is a longtime fan of the Hamilton model, which is cinema royalty. The director’s new film Oppenheimer, a few dude who proves pleated pants are cool—thanks, king—options three different vintage Hamilton watches. Nolan additionally labored with the model on custom pieces for Tenet and Interstellar. The watch on his wrist for his interview with Fox & Associates (??) is from the latter—a reproduction of the Hamilton worn by Murph (performed by Jessica Chastain) in Nolan’s house epic. The piece is deceptively easy wanting, however the phrase “Eureka” is definitely printed on the seconds hand in Morse code. It’s a refined nod to the second Matthew McConaughey’s character Cooper sends Murph the info that may save humanity by way of her—you guessed it—seconds hand. God, I really like that film.

Sabrina Ionescu’s Rolex Datejust

The GOAT three-point contest performer and New York Liberty guard can do all of it. This week she threw the primary pitch at Yankee Stadium carrying what seems to be her go-to watch, a Rolex Datejust. The Datejust is an ideal starter look ahead to knowledgeable hooper—and an enormous step up from the Apple Watch Ionescu was rocking commonly earlier than this. Proudly owning a Rolex means you’ve graduated from getting emails buzzed onto your wrist.

Sergio Pérez’s Tag Heuer Monaco

Steve McQueen famously wore the Tag Heuer Monaco within the 1971 film Le Mans. This new particular version of the watch, nevertheless—all black save for a number of digital pops of turquoise—appears to be like extra like one thing out of Tron.