These days, you’re likely to see as much (if not more) horological heat at your average NBA game as you are at Watches & Wonders. So you can imagine what happens at a sporting event the size and scale of the Paris Olympics: positive watch-induced mayhem. Day-Dates and RMs and Speedies, oh my! (Especially Speedies—this is an Omega-timed event, after all.) Don’t believe us? Check out some of the absolute bangers we’ve spotted on the wrists of everyone from Tom Cruise to Shaun White to Jayson Tatum and more.
Tom Cruise’s Rolex Day-Date Meteorite Dial
Agent Hunt seems to have an affinity for interesting dials—we’ve seen him weaning a Rolex Daytona fashioned from a slice of the Gibeon meteorite. The Day-Date he wore to catch the gymnastics event likewise features a shiny space-rock face.
Jayson Tatum’s Audemars Piguet Code 11.59
Recently-crowned NBA champion Jayson Tatum was benched for the first Team USA matchup against Serbia—but that didn’t stop the noted collector from showing up in a banger of a watch, the Audemars Piguet Code 11.59 Selfwinding Flying Tourbillon Chronograph. Thank God for one dude with the stones to wear an AP other than a Royal Oak!
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