Liverpool F.C. leads the Premier League table at the halfway point of the 2018-2019 soccer season, currently managed by the enthusiastic Jürgen Klopp, who has recently been wearing an IWC Aquatimer Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month Edition “50 Years Aquatimer.” In second place is Tottenham Hotspur F.C., coached by Mauricio Pochettino, who also wears an IWC.
Nick Jonas (of The Jonas Brothers) recently married Indian actress and singer Priyanka Chopra, Miss World 2000. He was spotted at his wedding wearing a rare Chopard L.U.C Grande Date Lunar One.
Mark Wahlberg seems to be be wearing more and more Patek Philippe timepieces. And while promoting his latest film, ‘Instant Family,’ the Boston-born actor was wearing yet another chronograph from the Geneva maison. But not any old Patek Philippe wrist timer: the Reference 5370P split-seconds chronograph.
Former Chelsea FC player Frank Lampard faced his former team recently in the English League. While Chelsea came out victorious, Lampard won life by sporting the recently-launched Patek Philippe Reference 5968A-001, the first Aquanaut featuring a chronograph.
Jonah Hill was on “The Ellen Show” recently to promote ‘Mid90s,’ the first film Jonah Hill has directed and written. Nick Gould spotted what looked like a gold Patek Philippe on his wrist. He confirmed a few days later that it was a Nautilus Reference 3800/1J in yellow gold.
Season 10 of the hit U.S. television show ‘Shark Tank’ is currently filming, and a couple of its “sharks” have been spotted wearing some new timepieces: an interesting Devon Tread 1G and a customized Rolex Daytona.
Giuseppe Conte is the current prime minister of Italy. In July, Conte met with his U.S. counterpart, President Donald Trump, in Washington, D.C. and visited the White House. While there, we were afforded a clear view of the timepiece that Conte wore: an IWC Portofino Automatic.
On October 4, 2018 in New York, Sotheby’s will auction a vast collection of items from Robin Williams and his second wife Marsha Williams, including artworks, film memorabilia . . . and 44 wristwatches belonging to Williams, including Panerai, Ikepod, Doxa, and Franck Muller models. Nick Gould highlights a few that caught his eye from a variety of watch genres.
As Nick Gould highlighted in his previous article, the first time Steve McQueen was seen wearing a Rolex Submariner was during the 12 Hours of Sebring Race in 1970, a Reference 5512. Through more photographic research, Nick came across some very clear pictures of McQueen wearing a 5513 Submariner only from 1977 to 1979, which he shares here, proving his theory that McQueen did not give Loren Janes the Rolex Submariner Reference 5513 to be auctioned this December off his wrist, but rather a brand-new one.
Sylvester Stallone was in London in early July 2018 for his Experience with Sylvester Stallone event held at the London Palladium. The special watch he wore to the event was a Patek Philippe Nautilus chronograph Reference 5980/1R-001 in pink gold.