Tom Brady Wore One among 2024’s Hottest Rolex Watches to the Olympics

Tom Brady is a person on a horological mission. Whereas the seven-time Tremendous Bowl champ has an in depth assortment that features uncommon, difficult Patek calendar watches and military-inspired IWC pilot’s watches, not too long ago he’s been amassing items from just a little model you would possibly’ve heard of known as Rolex. From uncommon Center Japanese-market Day-Dates to ref. 6241 “JPS” Daytonas to “Emoji”-dial fashions and gem-set GMT-Masters, his assortment is just awash with eye-popping Rollies.

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Regardless of all of his unobtainium watches, even the G.O.A.T. himself doesn’t appear to be resistant to the easy charms of a run-of-the-mill chrome steel catalog mannequin. Living proof? Brady was noticed leaving the gymnastic closing on the Paris Olympics carrying the ref. 126710GRNR, aka the brand new GMT-Grasp II launched at Watches & Wonders this 12 months. Not like many different references in Brady’s assortment, that is neither a contemporary piece of restricted manufacturing nor an ultra-rare classic mannequin whose acquisition takes each huge sums of cash in addition to infinite properly of endurance to amass. Slightly, the GRNR—for “gris noir,” aka “gray black”—is just an extension of the GMT-Grasp assortment into a brand new colorway.

Brady’s new ref. 126710GRNR was Rolex’s huge Oystersteel launch for 2024—having tried it on in Geneva, I can attest to its consolation and handsomeness. Even the grey-and-black 24-hour bezel insert differentiating daytime and nighttime hours have a stunning distinction in particular person. Measuring 40mm in diameter and outfitted with the aforementioned bidirectional, rotating bezel with Cerachrom 24-hour insert, the watch is powered by the automated cal. 3285 Rolex manufacture motion with an independently adjustable native hour hand and 70 hours of energy reserve.

For somebody like Brady, who seemingly pops up in a special far-flung locale every week, the GMT-Grasp II’s performance is genuinely helpful: When he units down in, say, Paris, it’s merely a matter of leaping the native hour hand ahead a couple of turns to replace to native time, whereas the GMT hand could possibly be both left alone or rapidly reset to trace time again within the States.

Subsequent to all the flamboyant Arabic-dial DDs, IWC perpetual calendars, and ultralight Richard Mille fashions in Brady’s assortment, this extra “humble” GMT-Grasp II might not command fairly the identical arched eyebrow from the jaded collector. Nevertheless, it’s fairly merely an superior watch.

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Jimmy Fallon’s Cartier Tank

The Olympic watch recognizing has sadly wound to a detailed this week—however not earlier than we scoped Jimmy Fallon rocking a basic Tank Louis Cartier whereas attending Group U.S.A’s faceoff towards Group France in males’s basketball. The Tank “LC,” launched in 1922, was not the primary Tank mannequin—that will be what we name the “Normale,” which was designed through the First World Battle—however in the present day, it’s thought of the prototypical Tank. Measuring 25.5mm in diameter, Fallon’s watch seems to be the rose gold mannequin. Powered by a manually-wound Cartier motion and stuck to a leather-based alligator strap, its white Roman-numeral dial and sapphire cabochon crown nonetheless ooze class over a century following the fashions’ conception.

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Jimmy O. Yang’s Seiko X Rowing Blazers Seiko 5

Actor-comedian Jimmy O. Yang is most positively a watch man. He snagged this Seiko 5 from Eric Wind, who helped design the gathering together with his pal and Rowing Blazers founder Jack Carlson. (The truth is, Yang outfitted his House Pressure forged members with watches from the capsule, spreading the horological love in a fashion that we most totally approve of.) This specific model on Yang’s wrist, with its mint-green NATO strap and checkered “racing” bezel, is especially cool. The day and date problems, powered by the automated Seiko 4R36 motion, are housed in a 42.5mm metal case, making the watch a wonderful, rugged alternative for summer season adventures.

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Austin Butler’s Breitling Chronomat B01 42

Which watch would you throw on for flying by the skies? For Austin Butler, the reply is the Breitling Chronomat B001 42, a large-and-in-charge chronograph powered by the model’s personal automated, in-house B-01 motion, first produced in 2009. Measuring 42mm in diameter in chrome steel, Butler’s reference contains a cool “panda” dial—black chrono totalizers towards a silver background—plus a helpful rotating, count-up timing bezel and a cool matching metal bracelet with cool “Rouleaux” hyperlinks. COSC-certified and water-proof to 200m, it has “luxurious sports activities watch” appears to be like with out the Patek- or AP-level price ticket.

Brad Pitt’s Patek Philippe Nautilus

Now we have at hand it to Brad Pitt—he introduced out the massive weapons for his GQ cowl shoot with buddy George Clooney, and couldn’t have picked a cooler watch: His 3800/1J is the second reference produced in Patek Philippe’s beloved Nautilus assortment, the mannequin conceived of by none aside from Gérald Genta and launched in 1976. An ideal encapsulation of the “luxurious sports activities watch,” the Nautilus contains a stable yellow gold case and bracelet, an identical gold dial, and the famed case “ears” and horizontal grooves of the gathering. For individuals who love the unique ref. 3700 “Jumbo” mannequin however desire a barely smaller 37.5mm diameter, the ref. 3800 is simply the ticket.