Jay-Z Rocks Another Patek Philippe Grail

(In more depth: the perpetual calendar keeps the day, date, and year accurate without additional setting until the year 2100! Meanwhile, the split-seconds chronograph—or rattrapante, if you’re feeling fancy—is a stopwatch feature that utilizes two hands. When you start the chronograph, the hands are stacked atop one another, but pressing the button again acts like the “Lap” button on your iPhone’s stopwatch: the split-second hand will stop while the main hand continues its way around the dial. It’s useful for timing intervals.)

Melding all these complications together was said to be so arduous that Patek, which retired the 5004 completely in 2011, only made around 250 over 17 whole years.

Jay’s version of this already rare watch might be the most beautiful in existence. The 5004 was made with many different dials, but it’s hard to compete with the white opaline face set with 11 rubies. It’s great to finally get a nice look at this watch on Jay. We’ve known he’s owned it since 2023, when he got it from Tony Kavak, his trusted supplier of rare Audemars Piguet and Patek watches. “Usually, I don’t sell my private watches, but Jay is a very special person, and he deserves the best one,” Kavak told me at the time. He wasn’t talking about this 5004 then, but he might as well have been.

Justin Theroux’s Audemars Piguet Royal Oak

For a long time, Theroux was mostly a one-watch guy. His beloved Rolex Submariner, produced the same year he was born, dominated his wrist time. But over the past couple of weeks, while promoting the new season of Fallout, Theroux has worn a couple of special pieces. Last week it was another Rolex classic: a gold Day-Date with a sleek black onyx dial. If there’s a theme to the pieces Theroux is showing off, it’s iconic models in yellow gold. This week, he wore the Royal Oak with its classic blue dial, but in the precious metal rather than the more traditional steel. Coincidentally, if Theroux were trapped in a post-apocalyptic nuclear wasteland like in the Fallout series, these gold watches would be excellent bartering chips.