The Year In Watches

So much discussion around watches ultimately boils down to the numbers The very first Watches of the Week roundup I put together, back in April, boasted that Jay-Z's sapphire-case Richard Mille took 3,000 hours to make Luckily, rounding up the watches worn by celebrities every week has the added bonus of generating another trove of numbers to dig through.

I've dug through the data to find the most popular watches and brands, the year's most varied collector, and a list of other made-up superlatives As watch collectors largely fell out of love with leather-banded dress watches this year, they went for the most top-shelf sports watch in existence: the Nautilus Even celebrities, with their practically limitless resources and many highfalutin events to attend, aren't reaching for watches in gold or platinum, but instead in steel.

Last thing: what a year for the late, great watch designer Gerald Genta, who is responsible for both the Royal Oak and Nautilus. . Source