Tom Brady Can’t Get Enough of These Rare Arabic-Dial Rolexes

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It’s little shock that the best quarterback of all time has some jaw-droppingly insane watches in his assortment. However it takes greater than cash—and we imply tons of cash—to type a group like Brady’s; it additionally requires real horological curiosity, and an appreciation for the avant-garde.

Therefore this gorgeous Day-Date that he was noticed carrying whereas celebrating his function as a crew proprietor in E1, the primary electrical boat racing championship. A reference 228396TBR in platinum, it’s a uncommon variant of the Day-Date set with baguette-cut diamonds within the bezel and Arabic lettering within the day and date home windows. Solely obtainable within the Center East market, it additionally is available in a green-dial model with a clean bezel—which Brady owns, as effectively.

Arabic-dial Day-Dates have been round because the Fifties. With the unimaginable wealth accumulating within the Center East following the area’s oil increase, requests for modified watches with Arabic dials started pouring into Rolex. The corporate happy this demand with particular Day-Dates and different fashions for a number of a long time (together with these with “Stella” dials) earlier than largely discontinuing them within the late Nineteen Seventies; they had been revived in 2016 with the introduction of the platinum-cased, Arabic-dial variant, a model of which Brady is seen carrying right here.

Brady has been across the watch recreation for a very long time: he was beforehand a model ambassador for TAG Heuer in 2015, adopted by IWC in 2019. Lately, he will be noticed carrying all the pieces from Richard Mille to Audemars Piguet. Gorgeous as lots of these items are, our favorites should be these particular Day-Dates. The IYKYK issue is one factor, however there’s no denying a merely lovely object while you see one.

Tyshawn Jones’s Rolex Oyster Perpetual “Tiffany”

Now right here’s a younger man with style. If 24-year-old skateboard phenom Tyshawn Jones had been noticed carrying a Rolex Oyster Perpetual reference 1500 full cease, that might’ve been sufficient trigger for applause: its smaller 34mm measurement seems to be unexpectedly sick on his six-foot body. However the truth that Jones is sporting a Tiffany & Co.-signed model? Go off, younger man. Jones is with super-collector FremStar, the inventor of the FremStarPoint. 

Jeezy’s Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Chronograph

Noticed exterior Good Morning America whereas selling his new guide Adversity for Sale, rapper Jeezy sported what seems to be a pink gold Royal Oak Chronograph from Audemars Piguet—a panoramic riff on the unique Genta design. On this explicit R.O. execution, 41mm of treasured metallic combines with the gathering’s signature “Grande Tapisserie” dial in black to type a bit that calls for your consideration from throughout the room.

Josh Groban’s Rolex Daytona

When you’d bought over 25 million information, what watch would you put on? Evidently, in the event you’re multi-platinum singer Josh Groban dropping by the SiriusXM studios, you tackle a decidedly laid-back vibe and pair your blue T-shirt with a black-dial Rolex Daytona—on this case, what seems to be a ceramic-bezel reference 116500LN. Versatile and inextricably linked to chill cats like actor-philanthropist-race-car-driver Paul Newman, the Daytona is rarely a nasty alternative.

John Mayer’s Rolex Day-Date “Emoji”

Adore it or hate it, the Rolex Day-Date 36 “Emoji-Puzzle” is presumably essentially the most seen, talked-about, conversation-stirring watch of 2023—and an absolute left flip for notoriously conventional Rolex. So when Fourtané Jewelers in Carmel-by-the-Sea was allotted a single piece, COO Russell Kelly positioned a telephone name to the world’s most well-known watch collector. John Mayer confirmed up just a few days later to gather his new Day-Date, a colourful affair with a champlevé enamel dial in a “jigsaw” motif, an “emoji” date wheel, and a day wheel whose days have been changed with uplifting phrases akin to “peace,” “gratitude,” and “love.” Learn the complete story here.